As a Hindi name
चार · ćār · adj.
Four — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 417
चार · ćār · s.m.
A present on a festive occasion — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 417
चार
four
Śabdasāgara also records: जो गिनती में दो और दो हो । तीन से एक अधिक जैसे, चार आदमी · कई एक । बहुत से । जैसे,—चार आदमी जो कहें उसे मानों
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit चत्वारि — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres Proto-Indo-Iranian *čatwā́ras Sanskrit च॒त्वारः॑ (catvā́raḥ) Prakrit चत्तारि (cattāri) Proto-New Indo-Aryan *चयारि (cayāri) Old Hindi चारि (cāri) Hindi चार Inherited from Old Hindi चारि (cāri), from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *चयारि (cayāri…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
going, motion, progression, course (of asterisms, ), &c.
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Dictionary citations
cāra m. (√ car) = cara, a spy, Mn. vii, ix; MBh. i, 5604; R.; Mṛcch.; Kathās.
going, motion, progression, course (of asterisms, VarBṛS.; BhP. v, 22, 12), ChUp. vii, 1, 5; R. &c.
wandering about, travelling, W.
‘proceeding’, see kāma-
practising, MBh. v, 1410
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