- A member of a Thai people inhabiting southern and eastern Myanmar (Burma).
- Any of the Tibeto-Burman languages of this people.
Karen
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Ka·ren (kə-rēn')  |
n., pl., Karen, or -rens.
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Karens (kərĕnz'), members of a Thai-Chinese cultural group, one of the most important minorities in Myanmar, living in the Kayah State, Kayin State, Tanintharyi, and the Ayeyarwady delta. They form 7% of Myanmar's population. The Karen hill tribes have tended to remain animistic, but among those settled in the plains there are about many Buddhists and Christians. The Karens speak the Karen languages of the Sino-Tibetan family. They are mostly farmers, but Karen tribespeople were superior soldiers in the military units raised in Myanmar under British rule. A major unifying element among the Karens is a strong opposition to Burmese political domination. Their revolt (1948-49) against the union government aimed at separation from Myanmar. They scored important successes, and the government was forced to grant the Karenni State (later Kayah State) a large measure of autonomy. The Karens continued their rebellion through the 1990s, by which time, however, there were only an estimated 4,000 active guerrillas. Between 1995 and 1997 the Karen rebels suffered setbacks when government forces mounted significant offenses against them; apparently promising negotiations in 2004 ultimately failed, and new offenses followed.
| Dialing Code: The telephone dialing code for: Karen, Kenya |
The country code is: 254
The city code is: 2
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For other uses, see Karen (disambiguation).
| Karen | |
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| Pronunciation | KAH-ren |
| Gender | Both |
| Language of Origin | Danish |
| Related names | Karine (Armenian female name) |
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Karen is a feminine name, derived from the Danish short form of Katherine.
In Armenian it is a masculine name.[1], having his origins probably from the name of House of Karen, aristocratic family, one of so-called Parthian clans.
The feminine name was one of the top ten names for girls born in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, peaking as the 3rd most popular girl's name in 1965.[2]
It can also be a surname.
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Women named Karen
- Karen Allen (born 1951), American actress
- Karen Anderson (born 1971), Jamaican squash player
- Karen Armstrong (born 1944), British author on comparative religion
- Karen Blixen (1885 - 1962), Danish author under the pen name Isak Dinesen
- Karen Carpenter (1950 - 1983), American singer and drummer in the duo The Carpenters
- Karen Clark-Sheard (born 1960), American gospel singer and sonwriterer member of the Clark Sisters
- Karen Dunne (born 1967), American track and road cyclist
- Karen Elson (born 1979), British model and singer
- Karen Horning (born 1966), Peruvian breaststroke swimmer
- Karen Kain (born 1951), Canadian ballerina, currently artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada
- Karen Killilea (born 1940), subject of two books by her mother, Marie Killilea
- Karen Kingsbury Christian fiction author
- Karen Kurreck (born 1962), American road cyclist
- Karen LaFace (born 1966), American diver
- Karen McDougal (born 1971), American model, actress and "Playmate of the month"
- Karen Ann Quinlan (1954 - 1985), central figure in an American right-to-die controversy
- Karen Smith (Australian) (born 1979), Australian field hockey player
- Karen Smith (New Zealand) (born 1970), New Zealand field hockey player
- Karen Smyers (born 1961), American triathlete
- Karen Taylor (comedian) (born 1976), British comedienne
- Anna Karen (born 1936), British actress
Men named Karen
- Karen Asrian (1980 - 2008), Armenian chess grandmaster
- Karen Demirchyan (1932 - 1999), Armenian politician
- Karen Khachaturian (born 1920), Armenian/Russian composer
- Karen Shakhnazarov (born 1952), Russian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter of Armenian origins
Characters named Karen
- Karen Hayes, on the television show 24
- Karen Filippelli, on the television show The Office
- Karen Mizuki, in J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai
- Karen Onodera from Please Twins!
- Karen, in Sister Princess
- Karen Hill, in Goodfellas
- Karen Sisco, an American television series, eponymous character played by Carla Gugino
- Karen Walker, in the television show Will & Grace
- Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie, on the television show Knots Landing
- Karen Smith, in the motion picture Mean Girls
- Karen Collins, wife of protagonist in Irving Wallace's novel The R Document
- Karen, Plankton's computer wife in the Nickelodeon series Spongebob Squarepants and in the movie
- Karen, cartoon character assisting Frosty to the North Pole in Frosty The Snowman
- Karen Darling, on the television series Dirty Sexy Money
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References
- ^ Behind the Name - Karen
- ^ Davidson, Andrew (2007), Population Statistics for Karen, Raleigh, NC: nameplayground.com, http://www.nameplayground.com/Karen
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