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My understanding is that kara is used more in the sense of dark, gloomy as opposed to siyah used simply to describe a dress, bag, coat, whatever. I would like to know if I´m correct in this!
kara is the originally Turkish word and siyah is from Persian. Although they have the same meaning, there are preferences in some cases. This is usually the case in Turkish. There are words originating from different languages and meaning the same, but one is preffered in one case and the other is preffered in another.
I agree with LIR, mostly (I say mostly, you can actually use them interchangably) to describe the color of dress, bag, coat, whatever, we use "siyah". It is less common to say "kara elbise" than "siyah elbise". However, when we are talking about dark, sky, eye color, or a black dirt, we use more commonly "kara".
e.g. kara gözlü, kara kaþlý
hava karardý (here it is not the word "kara" but the verb originating from it:kararmak)
ellerin kara olmuþ! ("your hands became black!" e.g. after a child played outside)
etc, etc...
anyway, as harpoon also said in Anatolia it is more common to use "kara" in any case. So don´t hesitate to use them interchangably (except for proper nouns like KARADENÃZ(black sea) or KARADAÃ(montenegro) ). However if you hear the language some time you can easily "get" the preferential uses.
Edited (8/2/2009) by dilliduduk
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