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I am sorry to be the guy who does that, but do you know what does Khara mean in Arabic? this brings back memories of the app that went successful in Brazil because the name meant something "naughty".

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Khara is the name of the Japanese anime studio, not the tool. The tool is called Blender.

I'm not sure why Khara would care what their name means in Arabic.

(Though they do care what it means in Greek, since that's where they took the name from. It also happens to be spelled the same as "color" in kana.)

According to them it's meant to be the Greek word for Joy. Interestingly, in their native Japanese katakana notation, カラー is indistinguishable from the English word "Color" due to the lossiness of katakana sounds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khara_(studio)

> The name khara comes from the Greek word χαρά, meaning joy.

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