چكر

चब ćakra, vulg. ćakr, and H. चक्कर ćakkar, (in comp.) चकर ćakar, s.m. Wheel (of a cart, etc.), a potter's wheel; a catharine-wheel; a discus or sharp circular missile weapon; a quoit; an oil-mill; a circle, a ring; circumference; a circular road or course; a circular position; a form of military array (in a circle=ćakābū); circular flight (of a bird, etc.); revolving in a circle, revolution, whirl; round, circuit; circumambulation; a whirlwind; a whirlpool, an eddy, anything revolving in a circle; a whirligig; the lounge (in a manege); giddiness, vertigo;—an army, a multitude; a side, a quarter (e.g. ćahoṅcakkar-meṅ, 'On all four sides'); (in Gram.) a table or paradigm; (in Astron.) the zodiac with its twelve signs; (fig.) maze, perplexity; misfortune, scrape:—ćakrākār (ćakra+ākāra), adj. Round, circular, ring-shaped:—ćakrāyudh (ćakra+āyudha), adj. & s.m. Fighting with the discus;—an epithet of Vishnu:—ćakkar adh-kaṭ, s.m. 'The line which bisects a circle,' a diameter:—ćakkar bāṅdhnā(-kā), To whirl (a thing) rapidly round (so as to make it present the appearance of (a disc):—ćakar-bardeśī, s.f. Compound interest (=ćakr-vriddhī):—ćakkar-bīć, s.m. Centre of a circle:—ćakkar-ṭukṛā, s.m. Segment of a circle:—ćakr-ćāl, s.f. Circular motion, rotatory motion, rotation:—ćakr-ćhūtā, adj. (f. -ī), Touching a circle, tangential;—ćakr-chūtīlakīr, s.f. A tangent:—ćakr-dhārī, s.m. An epithet of Vishnu (lit.'bearing a discus');—a peacock;—a circular course; the lounge (in a manege):—ćakkar denā(-ko), To lounge (a horse);—to surround:—ćakkar-kā, adj. (f. -ī), Round, circular; round-about, circuitous:—ćakkar khānā, v.n. To be put into rotatory motion, to whirl, turn round, revolve; to move or fly in a circle; to go a long round, take a circuitous road:—ćakkar mārnā, v.n. To wheel round, to whirl round, to revolve, to move or fly in a circle; to take a roundabout road:—ćakarmakar, s.m. Trick, fraud, deception, evasion, subterfuge, shuffle:—ćakkar-meṅ ānā(-ke), To be involved in difficulties, be entangled in the meshes (of):—ćakkar-meṅ ḍālnā(-ko), To involve one in difficulty or mess; to perplex, bewilder, mislead, lead astray:—ćakra-vāk, s.m.=ćakwā, q.v.:—ćakr-vān, adj. Circular, ring-shaped:—ćakra-vat, adv. Revolving like a wheel, in rotation:—ćakra-vartī, vulg. ćakarbatti, s.m. Sovereign of the world, universal monarch, emperor, the ruler of a ćakraor country described as extending from sea to sea (twelve princes beginning with Bharatare especially considered as ćakra-vartins); the title of one of the great families of Brāhmans in Bengal:—ćakr-vr̤iddhi, s.f. Interest upon interest, compound interest;—wages for transporting goods in a cart.