चरति

Sanskrit

verb
Definitions
  • to move oneself, go, walk, move, stir, roam about, wander (said of men, animals, water, ships, stars, etc.)
  • to spread, be diffused (as fire)
  • to move or travel through, pervade, go along, follow
  • to behave, conduct oneself, act, live, treat (with instrumental or locative)
  • to be engaged in, occupied or busy with
  • to have intercourse with, have to do with (+instrumental)
  • to continue performing or being
  • (astronomy) to be in any asterism or conjunction
  • to undertake, set about, under go, observe, practise, do or act in general, effect, make
  • to consume, eat (with accusative), graze
  • to make or render (with double accusative)
  • (causative) to cause to move or walk about
  • (causative) to pasture
  • (causative) to send, direct, turn, move
  • (causative) to cause any one (in accusative) to walk through (+accusative)
  • (causative) to drive away from (+ ablative)
  • (causative) to cause any one (in accusative) to practise or perform (with accusative)
  • (causative) to cause (any animal, +accusative) to eat
  • (causative) to cause to copulate
  • (causative) to ascertain (as through a spy instr.)
  • (causative) to doubt
  • (desiderative) to try to go
  • (desiderative) to wish to act or conduct oneself
  • (desiderative) to try to have intercourse with
  • (intensive) to move quickly or repeatedly, walk about, roam about (in locative)
  • (intensive) to act wantonly or coquettishly

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *ćárati inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čárati inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kʷél-e-ti.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*kʷél-e-ti

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