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)

to move
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 458052227, page 389.
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 45

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