chakra - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Transliteration of Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, circle, point”). Doublet of chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, cyclus, and wheel.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæ.kɹə/, /ˈtʃʌ.kɹə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑː.kɹə/, /ˈt͡ʃæ.kɹə/, /ˈt͡ʃʌ.kɹə/
• Rhymes: -ækɹə, (US) -ɑːkɹə

chakra (plural chakras)

1. (Hinduism, Ayurveda) Any of (at least) seven centres of spiritual energy in or near the body, according to Ayurveda philosophy.

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

     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.

• charka

• tsakra, tšakra

From Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá, “wheel, circle, cycle; chakra”), using the English spelling. Distant doublet of kaula, kekri, and sykli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɑkrɑ/, [ˈt̪ʃɑ̝krɑ̝]

chakra

1. (Hinduism) chakra

From Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, circle, point”).

chakra n (definite singular chakraet, indefinite plural chakraer, definite plural chakraa or chakraene)

1. chakra

From Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, circle, point”).

chakra n (definite singular chakraet, indefinite plural chakra, definite plural chakraa)

1. chakra

• Hyphenation: cha‧kra

chakra m (plural chakras)

1. Alternative spelling of chacra.

chakra

1. farmland

• → Spanish: chacra

Borrowed from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, circle, point”). Doublet of ciclo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃakɾa/ [ˈt͡ʃa.kɾa]
• Rhymes: -akɾa
• Syllabification: cha‧kra
• Homophone: chacra

chakra m (uncountable)

1. (Hinduism, Ayurveda) chakra

• “chakra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014