charkha
English edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hindustani چرخہ (carxa) / चरख़ा (carxā), from Classical Persian چرخ (čarx), from Middle Persian 𐫝𐫍𐫡 (chr /čahr/, “wheel, cycle”), from Proto-Iranian *čaxrám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čakrám, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“wheel, circle”). Doublet of cycle, wheel, and chakra.
Noun edit
charkha (plural charkhas)
- (Pakistan, India) A domestic spinning wheel, used mostly for spinning cotton.
Further reading edit
- “churka”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 248.