चरित्र

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit चरित्र (caritra).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃə.ɾɪt̪.ɾᵊ/, [t͡ʃɐ.ɾɪt̪.ɾᵊ]

चरित्र • (caritra) m

1. conduct, behaviour
2. (good) character, nature

   बिना चरित्र आदमी जानवर होता है।

   binā caritra ādmī jānvar hotā hai.

   A man without character is an animal.

3. (literature) a character

   चरित्र-चित्रण ― caritra-citraṇ ― portrayal of a character

• चरित्रांकन (caritrāṅkan)
• चरित्र-भ्रष्ट (caritra-bhraṣṭ)
• चरित्रवान (caritravān)
• चरित्रहीन (caritrahīn)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “चरित्र”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 305

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit चरित्र (caritra).

• IPA^(key): [t͡sʌɾit̪rʌ]
• Phonetic Devanagari: चरित्र

चरित्र • (caritra)

1. conduct, behaviour
2. moral character

• “चरित्र”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary]‎, Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
• Schmidt, Ruth L. (1993) “चरित्र”, in A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-i-tro-m, from *kʷel- (“to walk”) + *-trom (suffix denoting a tool or an instrument for an action). The Sanskrit root is चर् (car, “to move”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ.ɾít.ɾɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐˈɾit̪.ɾɐ/

चरित्र • (carítra) stem, n

1. a foot, leg
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda
2. going
3. acting, behaviour, habit, practice
4. nature, disposition

• →Tatsama:

  • Hindi: चरित्र (caritra)
  • Nepali: चरित्र (caritra)
  • Tamil: சரித்திரம் (carittiram)

• Monier Williams (1899) “चरित्र”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 390/1.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 534