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noun
A domestic spinning wheel, used mostly for spinning cotton.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, Pakistan
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History
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.
