چوك

चौक ćauk [Prk. चउक्खं; S. चतुंकं], s.m. A quadrangle; a square; a court-yard; an open place in a town where the market is held (and where also the chief of the police-office is stationed); a daily market; the main street or central thoroughfare of a city;—a square place filled (at marriages and other occasious of rejoicing) with sweetmeats (which, after certain ceremonies, are distributed);—an ornamented square of coloured meal, etc., in which a bride and bridegroom are seated a short while during a certain number of nights before the wedding; the number four, an aggregate of four (e.g. tīn ćauk bārhā);—a grinder or back-tooth (being one of a set of four):—ćauk bharnā, ćauk pūrnā, To form a square space of coloured meal in which at marriages the bride and bridegroom are seated on chairs, etc.;—to fill a square space with sweetmeats, etc. on some occasion of rejoicing;—to make chequers or squares:—ćauk-paṭṭā, s.m. A seat on which people sit and eat in the ceremony of ćauk:—ćauk-ćaknī, ćauk-ćāṅdnī, s.f. A festival held on the fourth of the light fortnight in Bhādoṅ, when the pupils of pātśālas worship Ganeś:—ćauk-lagnā, v.n. A market to be held; a row of shops to be opened:—ćauk-mārā, s.m. Evading the markettax, smuggling:—ćauk-nikās, s.m. A tax on all goods sold in a ćauk.