As a Hindi name
चाप · noun · feminine
सोने की वे कीलें जिन्हें लोग अगले दाँतों पर जड़वाते हैं — Śabdasāgara
चाप · noun · masculine
धनुष । कमान · गणित में आधा वृत्तक्षेत्र · वृत्त की परिधि का कोई भाग — Śabdasāgara
चाप · ćāp · s.m.
A bow (syn. dhanush; kamān); are of a circle — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 416
चाप · ćāp · v.n.
of ćāṅpnā, q.v.), s.m. The refuse of the jhaṛ-berī after the pālā is beaten from it — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 416
चाप · masculine
bow
चाप · feminine
footsteps; pressing, applying pressure (act)
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi चाप — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit चाप (cāpa).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
cāpa m. n. (fr. capa, g. tālādi) a bow, Mn. vii, 192; MBh. &c.
(in geom.) an arc, Sūryas. ii f., vi, xi
a Hindi word of pra-pro origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Prakrit 𑀘𑀧𑁆𑀧𑀇 (cappaï)deverb. Proto-New Indo-Aryan *𑀘𑀧𑁆𑀧 (*cappa) Hindi चाप Inherited from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *𑀘𑀧𑁆𑀧 (*cappa), deverbal from Prakrit 𑀘𑀧𑁆𑀧𑀇 (cappaï, “to press, flatten”). See there for more.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a bow, &c.
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
cāpa m. n. (fr. capa, g. tālādi) a bow, Mn. vii, 192; MBh. &c.
(in geom.) an arc, Sūryas. ii f., vi, xi
Sagittarius, VarBṛS.
a rainbow (cf. indraśakra-), BhP. i, 11, 28
a kind of astron. instrument, Gol. xi, 2 and 5
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