charkha

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19
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18
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7

Definition of charkha

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (India, Pakistan)A domestic spinning wheel, used mostly for spinning cotton.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani چرخہ (carxa) / चरख़ा (carxā), from Classical Persian چرخ (čarx), from Middle Persian 𐫝𐫍𐫡 (chr /⁠čahr⁠/, “wheel, cycle”), from Proto-Iranian *čaxrám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čakrám, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“wheel, circle”). Doublet of chakra, chakram, chukker, cycle, cyclus, kike, and wheel.

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