विकार

Borrowed from Sanskrit विकार (vikāra), from वि- (vi-) +‎ कार (kāra).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʋɪ.kɑːɾ/,

विकार • (vikār) m

1. change: usually a negative change, change for the worse
2. damage, harm, detriment, ruin
3. (medicine) a disorder

   व्यक्तित्व विकार ― vyaktitva vikār ― personality disorder

4. (grammar) an inflected form

• विकारमय (vikārmay)

• विकृत (vikŕt, “changed for the worse, etc.”)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “विकार”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 917

वि- (vi-, “the syllable "vi"”) +‎ कार (kāra, “sound”)

विकार • (vikāra) stem, m

1. the syllable "vi" (BhP.)

From विकोति (vikaroti, “to make different, become different”).

विकार • (vikāra) stem, m

1. change from natural state, transformation
2. disease, injury
3. agitation, passion
4. ghost (Kathās.)
5. extravagance (Kathās.)
6. product (Gaut.)
7. the seven resultant products of प्रकृति (prakṛti, “the basic material of the universe”), and the sixteen resultant products of these (IW., etc.)
8. derivative word (Nir.)
9. grimace (Kathās.)
10. defection of allegiance, hostility (MBh., Rājat.)

• Monier Williams (1899) “विकार”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 0950, 0954.