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चर्

चर्

See also: चुर्, चोरी, चोर, चार, चारु, चौर, and चरा

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

चल् ‎(cal)

Root

चर् • ‎(car)

to move
to practise

Derived terms

Terms derived from चर्

चर ‎(cara, “moving, locomotive”)
चरक ‎(cáraka, “a wanderer, wandering religious student”)
चरणि ‎(caraṇi, “active”)
चरति ‎(carati, “he moves, practises”)
चरथ ‎(carátha, “moving, living”)
चराचर ‎(carācará, “movable and immovable, locomotive and stationary”)
चरित ‎(caritá, “gone, gone to, attained”)

चरितव्य ‎(caritavya, “to be practised or performed”)
चरित्र ‎(caritra, “acting, behaving, behaviour, habit, practice, acts”)
चरिष्णु ‎(cariṣṇu, “moving, locomotive”)
चर्तव्य ‎(cartavya, “to be practised”)
चर्य ‎(cárya, “to be practised or performed”)
चर्या ‎(caryā, “going about, wandering, walking or roaming about”)
चार ‎(cāra, “spy”)

चारक ‎(cāraka, “spy”)
चारण ‎(cāraṇa, “a wandering actor or singer”)
चारिन् ‎(cārin, “moving, walking or wandering about, living, being”)
चार्य ‎(cārya, “espionage”)
चिचरिषु ‎(cicariṣu, “trying to go”)
चीर्ण ‎(cīrṇa, “practised, observed (as a vow, austerity)”)
तपश्चरण ‎(tapaścaraṇa, “the practice of austerities”)

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 389
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 45