चर्

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

Nepali

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡sʌr]
• Phonetic Devanagari: चर्

Verb

चर् • (car)

1. inflection of चर्नु (carnu):
   1. stem
   2. low-respectful second-person singular imperative

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• चल् (cal)

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• চৰ্ (Assamese script)
• ᬘᬃ (Balinese script)
• চর্ (Bengali script)
• 𑰓𑰨𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀘𑀭𑁆 (Brahmi script)
• စရ် (Burmese script)
• ચર્ (Gujarati script)
• ਚਰ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌚𑌰𑍍 (Grantha script)
• ꦕꦂ (Javanese script)
• 𑂒𑂩𑂹 (Kaithi script)
• ಚರ್ (Kannada script)
• ចរ៑ (Khmer script)
• ຈຣ຺ (Lao script)
• ചര് (Malayalam script)
• ᢜᠠᡵ (Manchu script)
• 𑘓𑘨𑘿 (Modi script)
• ᢋᠠᠷ (Mongolian script)
• 𑦳𑧈𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐔𑐬𑑂 (Newa script)
• ଚର୍ (Odia script)
• ꢗꢬ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆖𑆫𑇀 (Sharada script)
• 𑖓𑖨𑖿 (Siddham script)
• චර් (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩡𑩼 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚏𑚤𑚶 (Takri script)
• சர் (Tamil script)
• చర్ (Telugu script)
• จรฺ (Thai script)
• ཙ་ར྄ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒔𑒩𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨣𑨫𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐɾ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐɾ/

Root

चर् • (car)

1. to move
2. to practise

Derived terms

• चर (cara, “moving, locomotive”)
• चरक (cáraka, “a wanderer, wandering religious student”)
• चरण (caraṇa, “foot”)
• 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, “movement, motion; one who moves about, 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 389/1.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 45
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 534-535