चर्
Sanskrit
Alternative forms
- चल् (cal)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō), Latin colō and Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬁𐬥𐬍 (carānī, “I move, approach”).
Derived terms
- चर (cara, “moving, locomotive”)
- चरक (cáraka, “a wanderer, wandering religious student”)
- चरणि (caraṇi, “active”)
- चरति (carati, “he moves, practises”)
- चरथ (carátha, “moving, living”)
- चराचर (carācará, “movable and immovable, locomotive and stationary”)
- चरित (caritá, “gone, gone to, attained”)
- चरितव्य (caritavya, “to be practised or performed”)
- चरित्र (caritra, “acting, behaving, behaviour, habit, practice, acts”)
- चरिष्णु (cariṣṇu, “moving, locomotive”)
- चर्तव्य (cartavya, “to be practised”)
- चर्य (cárya, “to be practised or performed”)
- चर्या (caryā, “going about, wandering, walking or roaming about”)
- चार (cāra, “spy”)
- चारक (cāraka, “spy”)
- चारण (cāraṇa, “a wandering actor or singer”)
- चारिन् (cārin, “moving, walking or wandering about, living, being”)
- चार्य (cārya, “espionage”)
- चिचरिषु (cicariṣu, “trying to go”)
- चीर्ण (cīrṇa, “practised, observed (as a vow, austerity)”)
- तपश्चरण (tapaścaraṇa, “the practice of austerities”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “चर्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 389.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 45
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