चक्र

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

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəkɾ/

चक्र • (cakra) m (Urdu spelling چکر‎)

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

   जल चक्र ― jal cakra ― water cycle

• दुष्चक्र (duṣcakra)

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

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

चक्र • (cakrá) n or m

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

All inherited descendants point to common Indo-Aryan *cakkám, itself derived from this form.

• Monier Williams (1899), “चक्र”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0380.