Kar (Marathi: कर Kar, Konkani: कार Kār) is a suffix used after the names of villages along the western coast of India, forming the most common surnames used by the Marathi and Konkani people in Maharashtra, Goa and some parts of Karnataka. == Etymology == The suffix Kar comes from the Sanskrit Kāra, which means "making, doing, lord of", later modified to mean "hailing from" or "belonging to" in Prakrit-based languages.
Kar (Marathi: कर Kar, Konkani: कार Kār) is a suffix used after the names of villages along the western coast of India, forming the most common surnames used by the Marathi and Konkani people in Maharashtra, Goa and some parts of Karnataka. == Etymology == The suffix Kar comes from the Sanskrit Kāra, which means "making, doing, lord of", later modified to mean "hailing from" or "belonging to" in Prakrit-based languages.
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