चक्षु

Borrowed from Sanskrit चक्षु (cakṣu). Doublet of चाख (cākh) and चश्म (caśma).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃək.ʂuː/,

चक्षु • (cakṣu) m (Urdu spelling چکشو)

1. eye

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:आँख

• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “चक्षु”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “चक्षु”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “चक्षु”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “चक्षु”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *čákšuš (“eye”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷé-kʷḱ-u-s, from *kʷeḱ- (“to see, look”). Cognate with Persian چشم (čašm, “eye”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ́k.ʂu/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐk.ʂu/

चक्षु • (cákṣu) stem, m

1. the eye
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.90.13:

     चन्द्रमा मनसो जातश्चक्षोः सूर्यो अजायत ।
     मुखादिन्द्रश्चाग्निश्च प्राणाद्वायुरजायत ॥

     candramā manaso jātaścakṣoḥ sūryo ajāyata.
     mukhādindraścāgniśca prāṇādvāyurajāyata.

     The Moon was gendered from his mind, and from his eye the Sun was born;
     Indra and Agni from his mouth were born, and Vāyu from his breath.

2. name of a prince
3. the Oxus river. (for वक्षु (vakṣú))

• चक्षुस् (cakṣus)

• Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀘𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀼 (cakkhu)
  • Kamarupi Prakrit:
    • Early Assamese: চখু (cokhu)
      • Assamese: চকু (soku)
    • Kamta: চখু (sokhu)
  • Bengali: চোখ (cōkh)
  • Rohingya: suk / 𐴏𐴟𐴑 (suk)
  • Sylheti: ꠌꠃꠇ (souk)
• Pali: cakkhu
• Sauraseni Prakrit:
  • Braj: चाख (cākh), चाष (cāṣ)
  • Gujarati: ચાખ (cākh)
• → Telugu: చక్షువు (cakṣuvu)
• → Thai: จักษุ (jàk-sù)

• Monier Williams (1899) “चक्षु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 382/1.