As a Hindi name
चाल · noun · feminine
गति । गमन । चलने की क्रिया । जैसे— इस गाड़ी की चाल बहुत धीमी है · चलने का ढंग । चलने का ढब । गमन प्रकार । जैसे, —यह घोड़ा बहूत अच्छी चाल चलता है · आचरण । चलन । बर्ताव । व्यवहार । जैसे, — (१) अपनी इसी बुरी चाल से तुम कहीं नहीं टिकने पाते । (२) अपने सुत की चाल न देखत उलटी तू हम पै रिस ठानति । — सुर (शब्द॰) — Śabdasāgara
चाल · noun · masculine
घर का छप्पर या छत । छाजन · स्वर्णचूड़ पक्षी · चलना । गतिशील होना (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
चाल · ćāl · v.n.
of ćālnā = ćalnā, q.v.), s.f. Motion, movement, gait, walk, carriage; pace (of a horse); a move (in chess, &c.); course, procedure, process, mode, method, manner, fashion — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 418
चाल · ćāl · s.m.
The thatch or roof of a house — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 418
चाल · feminine
walk, style of movement; behaviour; trick, game, scheme
a Hindi word of pra-pro origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Sanskrit चर् (car) Sanskrit -या (-yā) Sanskrit चर्या (caryā) Sanskrit *चल्या (*calyā) Proto-New Indo-Aryan *चल्ला (callā) Hindi चाल Inherited from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *चल्ला (callā), from Sanskrit *चल्या (*calyā), from चर्या (caryā), from चर् (car, “to move, proce…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a thatch, roof
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Dictionary citations
cāla m. (√ cal, g. jvalādi) ‘moving’, see danta-
looseness of the teeth, VarBṛS. lxvi, 5, Sch.
a thatch, roof, L.
(for cāṣa) the blue jay, L.
cāla m. (-laḥ) 1 The thatch or roof of a house. 2 The blue jay. E. cala to go, affix aṇ.
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