As a Hindi name
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
ifc. moving, walking or wandering about, living, being (e.g. ambu-, eka-, kha-, giri-, &c., qq.vv.; nimeṣāntara-, ‘going in an instant’, )
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Dictionary citations
cārin mfn. moving, MBh. vii, 372
ifc. moving, walking or wandering about, living, being (e.g. ambu-, eka-, kha-, giri-, &c., qq.vv.; nimeṣāntara-, ‘going in an instant’, MBh.; Hariv. 9139)
acting, proceeding, doing, practising (e.g. dharma-, bahu-, brahma-, &c., qq.vv.), MBh. xiv, 759; R. &c.
living on Suśr.
‘coming near’, resembling See padma-cāriṇī
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