Hindi

Noun

चक्र • ‎(cakra) m ‎(Urdu spelling چکر)

1. wheel
2. cycle
3. circle
4. disc
5. round
6. fraud

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *keklos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos ‎(“circle, wheel”). Cognates include Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀 ‎(caxra, “wheel”), Persian چرخ ‎(čarx), Old Church Slavonic коло ‎(kolo), Lithuanian kãklas, Tocharian B kokale, Ancient Greek κύκλος ‎(kúklos), Latin colus and Old English hwēol (English wheel).

Noun

चक्र • ‎(cakrá) n

1. the wheel (of a carriage, of the Sun's chariot, of Time)
2. a potter's wheel (ShBr.)
3. a discus or sharp circular missile weapon, especially that of Vishu
4. a circle (Puranic)
5. an astronomical circle, the zodiac
6. a mystical circle or diagram
7. a cycle, cycle of years or of seasons
8. a circle or depression of the body (for mystical or chiromantic purposes; 6 in number, one above the other), the fontenelle or union of the coronal and sagittal sutures;
9. (prosody) name of a poetic metre
10. a troop, multitude

Declension

Descendants

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0380