Saturday, September 12, 2009

चमार چمار ♣ Eng. shear + tera-

चमार چمار ♣ Eng. shear + tera-

[camār], m. a leatherworker, cobbler, shoemaker.

[◀MIA: Pk. cammaāra-, °māra-, °raya-,°mayara- m. ‘leatherworker’; Pa. cammakāra-, °rin- m. ‘leatherworker, harnessmaker, chariot-maker’ ◀OIA carmakāra- m. ‘leatherworker’ MBh., °rī- f. <② kāra- ‘making, doing’ (♣Eng. tera- ) <cárman- n. ‘hide, skin’ RV. ◀PIE *(s)ker-, (s)kerǝ-, (s)krē- ‘to cut’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. shear, share, short, sharp, shrub ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. score, skirt, screen, carnal ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0440; (Turner, 1966) 4698, 4701, ② 3053, ② p.177; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 262; (MW, 1899) 0390, ② 0274, ② 0300; (Pokorny, 1959) 0938, ② 0641; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.537, ② 1.307

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