As a Hindi name
चामर · ćāmar · s.m.
The tail of the Bos grunniens (used as a whisk to drive away flies, &c.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 419
चामर · noun · masculine
चौर । चँवर । चौंरी · मोरछल · एक वर्णवत्त जिसके प्रत्येक चरण में रगण जगण, रगण, जगण और रगण होते हैं । जैसे,—रोज रोज राधिका सखीन संग आइ कै । खेल रास कान्ह संगचित हर्ष लाइ कै । बाँसुरी समान बोल सप्त ग्वाला गाइ कै । कृष्ण ही रिझावही सु चामरै डुलाई कै — Śabdasāgara
चाय · feminine
tea (plant, beverage); cup of tea
a Hindi word of Persian origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Classical Persian چَای (čāy), ultimately from Chinese 茶 (chá).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
coming from the Yak (cam˚)
Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "cāmara" is the vocative of "cāmarā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
cāmara mfn. coming from the Yak (cam˚), BhP. viii, 10, 13
belonging to a chowrie, L.
cāmara m. = cam˚ (q.v.), a chowrie, Bhoj.
cāmara n. id. (a kind of plume on the heads of horses &c., Śak.; Vikr.; Kād.), MBh. &c. (ifc. f(ā). , Kum. vii, 42)
cāmara n. a metre of 4 × 15 syllables
cāmara (ā, ī) f. a chowrie, L., Sch.
Alternative readings
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