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Nepali
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Phonetic Devanagari: चर्
Verb
चर् • (car)
- inflection of चर्नु (carnu):
- stem
- low-respectful second-person singular imperative
Sanskrit
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 *kʷelh₁- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō), Latin colō and Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬁𐬥𐬍 (carānī, “I move, approach”).
Pronunciation
Root
चर् • (car)
- to move
- to practise
Derived terms
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Secondary Forms
- Non-Finite Forms
- चरित (caritá, Past Participle)
- चीर्ण (cīrṇa, Past Participle)
- चरितुम् (cáritum, Infinitive)
- चर्तुम् (cartum, Infinitive)
- चरितवे (cáritave, Infinitive)
- चरितोस् (caritos, Infinitive)
- चरसे (caráse, Infinitive)
- चरध्यै (carádhyai, Infinitive)
- चरित्वा (caritvā́, Gerund)
- चीर्त्वा (cīrtvā, Gerund)
- चर्य (cárya, Gerund)
- चर्य (cárya, Gerundive)
- चरितव्य (caritavya, Gerundive)
- चर्तव्य (cartavya, Gerundive)
- चरणीय (caraṇīya, Gerundive)
- चार्य (cārya, Causative Gerundive)
- चिचरिषु (cicariṣu, Desiderative Participle)
- Derived Nominal Forms
- चर (cara, “moving, locomotive”)
- चरक (cáraka, “a wanderer, wandering religious student”)
- चरण (cáraṇa, “foot”)
- चरणि (caráṇi, “active”)
- चरथ (carátha, “moving, living”)
- चराचर (carācará, “movable and immovable, locomotive and stationary”)
- चरित्र (carítra, “acting, behaving, behaviour, habit, practice, acts”)
- चरिष्णु (cariṣṇú, “moving, locomotive”)
- 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”)
- Prefixed Root Forms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “चर्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 389, column 1.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 45
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “car”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “CARI”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 534-535
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “ku̯elh₁-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 386-8