Karo

Look up Karo or karo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Karo may refer to:

Ethnicities

Karo people (East Africa) an ethnic group from East Africa
Karo people (Ethiopia), an ethnic group from Ethiopia
Karo people (Indonesia), the indigenous people of the Karo Plateau in North Sumatra

Languages

Batak Karo language, as spoken by the Karo people
Kutuk na Karo, or Bari language, Nilotic language of the Karo people, spoken over large areas of Central Equatoria state in South Sudan, across the northwest corner of Uganda, and into the Democratic Republic of Congo

Places

Karo, Chad
Karo Plateau, North Sumatra, Indonesia
Karo Regency, regency of North Sumatra, Indonesia

People

Karo, a common Armenian first name, shortened version of Karapet (Eastern Armenian) / Garabed (Western Armenian). For Western Armenian variant of Karo, namely Garo, refer to Garo (disambiguation)#Persons

Aaron Karo (born 1979), American author and comedian
Henry Arnold Karo (1903–1986), vice admiral in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo (1488–1575), also known as Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi and author of the Shulchan Aruch
Karo Parisyan (born 1982), American mixed martial arts fighter

Businesses

KARO (98.7 FM), Nyssa, Oregon
Karo Group, Inc, Canadian design firm
Karo Manufacturing, Ltd., South African office chair manufacturer
Karo Data Management, Ltd., New Zealand data management company

Other

Karō, samurai officials and advisers of feudal Japan
Karo-kari (honor killings against men is Karo)
Karo (syrup), liquid sweetener made from corn
KARO formalism, "Knowledge, Actions, Results and Opportunities"
Karo (tree), small tree or shrub native to New Zealand, aka Pittosporum crassifolium
United States v. Karo, 468 U.S. 705 (1984), a Supreme Court decision related to the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable search and seizure
Karo (film), a 1937 Adventure-War film
Eucalyptus brassiana known as the Karo tree in Papua New Guinea