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chakra - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

chakra (plural chakras)

  • (Hinduism, Ayurveda) Any of (at least) seven centres of spiritual energy in or near the body, according to Ayurveda philosophy.
    • ✤ In the etheric body of a yogini in meditation, the polarity is, therefore, not between the brain and the genitals, the second and sixth chakras, but between the inner sexuality of the womb and the heart.1
  • Synonym of hackery.
    • ✤ … bahlis, chakras, bullock-carts, dolis, tattus, palkis, miyanas, kharkharinas, bajras and chaupalas, were the common vehicles.2

Etymology

From Hindi चक्र (cakra) and directly from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, disc, cycle”). As a synonym for hackery, either a correction or hypercorrection of that term based on one of its proposed etymologies. Doublet of chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, cyclus, kike, and wheel.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈtʃæ.kɹə/, /ˈtʃʌ.kɹə/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • (US) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɑː.kɹə/, /ˈt͡ʃæ.kɹə/, /ˈt͡ʃʌ.kɹə/
  • Rhymes: -ækɹə, (US) -ɑːkɹə

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Footnotes

  1. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19: ↩

  2. 1911, Calendar of Persian Correspondence…, page xxvi: ↩

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