चकार

चकार m

1. Devanagari script form of cakāra (“the letter 'c'”)
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (overall work in Pali), page 11; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     सब्बो ति इच्चेसो सद्दो सरे परे क्वचि चकारं पप्पोति

     Sabbo ti icceso saddo sare pare kvaci cakāraṃ pappoti.

     For all 'ti', this sound sometimes becomes 'c' before another vowel.

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *ćakā́ra, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čakā́ra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷe-kʷór-e.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ.kɑ́ː.ɾɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐˈkɑː.ɾɐ/

चकार • (cakā́ra) third-singular indicative (type U, perfect, root कृ)

1. perfect of कृ (kṛ)

The second-singular perfect optative चक्रियाः (cakriyāḥ) occurs in Rigveda 8,45,18.

Of Vedic pluperfect forms occur: अचक्रत् (acakrat, third-singular active), अचक्रिरन् (ácakriran, third-plural middle) and चकरम् (cakaram, augmentless first-singular active).

• Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2000) Das Perfekt im Indoiranischen (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert, pages 134-8

Compound of च (ca, the letter) +‎ कार (kāra, term designating a letter or sound).

• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐˈkɑː.ɾɐ/

चकार • (cakāra) stem, m

1. The name of the Devanagari letter च (ca).
2. the sound of the च letter, /t͡ɕɐ/

• तालव्य (tālavya, “palatal”)
• अल्पप्राण (alpaprāṇa, “unaspirated”)

• Monier Williams (1899) “चकार”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 380, column 1.