चर्

See also: चुर्, चोरी, चोर, चार, चारु, चौर, and चरा

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”).

Root

चर् • (car)

1. to move
2. to practise

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, page 389.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 45