चक्र

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra). Doublet of चक्कर (cakkar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəkɾ/

Noun

चक्र • (cakra) m (Urdu spelling چکر‎)

1. circle, ring
2. wheel
3. cycle; sequence, progression

   जल चक्र ― jal cakra ― water cycle

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ćakrám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čakrám, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”). Cognates include Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀‎ (caxra, “wheel”), Persian چرخ‎ (čarx), Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo), Lithuanian kãklas, Tocharian B kokale, Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos), Latin colus and Old English hwēol (English wheel).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐk.ɽɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ɕɐk.ɽɐ/

Noun

चक्र • (cakrá) n

1. the wheel (of a carriage, of the Sun's chariot, of Time)
2. a potter's wheel (ShBr.)
3. a discus or sharp circular missile weapon, especially that of Vishu
4. a circle (Puranic)
5. an astronomical circle, the zodiac
6. a mystical circle or diagram
7. a cycle, cycle of years or of seasons
8. a circle or depression of the body (for mystical or chiromantic purposes; 6 in number, one above the other), the fontenelle or union of the coronal and sagittal sutures
9. (prosody) name of a poetic metre
10. a troop, multitude

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0380