चर्मन्

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *čárma, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kérmn̥ (“skin, hide, pelt”).

Cognate with Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬨𐬀𐬥 (car^əman), Old Persian 𐎨𐎼𐎶𐎴 (c-r-m-n /⁠carman⁠/) (whence Persian چرم (čarm)), Latin corium (“skin”), Proto-Slavic *kora (“bark”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ́ɾ.mɐn/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ɕɐɾ.mɐn̪/

चर्मन् • (cárman) stem, n

1. skin
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.110.8.1:

     निश् चर्म॑ण ऋभवो॒ गाम॑पिंशत॒ सं व॒त्सेना॑सृजता मा॒तरं॒ पुनः॑ ।

     níś cármaṇa ṛbhavo gā́mapiṃśata sáṃ vatsénāsṛjatā mātáraṃ púnaḥ.

     Out of skin, O Ṛbhus, once ye formed a cow, and brought the mother close unto her calf again.

2. pelt

• Dardic:
  • Kashmiri: ċam

    Arabic script: ژَم

    Devanagari script: च़म

  • Phalura:

    Latin script: čáam

    Arabic script: چام

  • Torwali: چم (čam)
• Pali: camma
  • → Khmer: ចម្ម (cam)
• Prakrit: 𑀘𑀫𑁆𑀫 (camma) (see there for further descendants)
• Bengali: চাম (cam)
• Bengali: চিমসা (cimośa)
• Rohingya: samra, sam

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “cárman”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 255