चल

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See also: चुल, चाल, चील, चिली, and चला

Garhwali

Etymology

From Prakrit , from Sanskrit चलति (calati). Cognates include Hindi चलना (calnā) and Nepali चल्नु (calnu).

Pronunciation

Verb

चल (cal)

  1. (intransitive) to go

Derived terms

References

  • Anoop Chandra Chandola (1966) A Synthatic Sketch of Garhwali, University of Chicago press (PhD thesis), page 2

Hindi

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit चल (cala, “moving, trembling; unsteady, perishable; disturbed, confused”).

Adjective

चल • (cal) (indeclinable)

  1. moving; trembling
  2. movable, mobile
  3. unsteady, inconstant, fickle
  4. disturbed, confused
  5. transient, ephemeral

Noun

चल • (cal) m

  1. movement
  2. unsteadiness; mobility
  3. (mathematics) variable
Declension
Declension of चल (masc cons-stem)
singular plural
direct चल
cal 		चल
cal
oblique चल
cal 		चलों
calõ
vocative चल
cal 		चलो
calo
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

चल • (cal)

  1. inflection of चलना (calnā):
    1. stem
    2. second-person singular present imperative

References

  • McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “चल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
  • Bahri, Hardev (1989) “चल”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
  • Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “चल”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Verb

चल

  1. Devanagari script form of cala, imperative active second-person singular of चलति (calati, “to move”)
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