chakra
/ˈtʃʌkrə
/- Each individual soul has seven energy centres known as chakras in his body that run along the spinal column.
- According to the yogis, we have seven main chakras in the body.
Origin
From Sanskrit cakra 'wheel or circle', from an Indo-European base meaning 'turn', shared by wheel.
wheel from Old English:
The wheel was probably invented some time around 4000 bc in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). Its name, probably based on a word meaning ‘to turn’, moved east to India, where it produced Sanskrit cakra ‘wheel, circle’, source of the chakra (late 19th century) of yoga, and west, where it gave rise to Greek kuklos ‘circle’, the source of cycle (Late Middle English) and cyclone (mid 19th century). It is recorded in Anglo-Saxon English from about ad 900. To reinvent the wheel is a 20th-century expression. Wheels within wheels is an allusion to a biblical quotation from the Old Testament book of Ezekiel. The prophet Ezekiel sees a vision in which four cherubs appear: ‘And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel’.
- foundry
- fount
- fountain
- fountained
- fountainhead
- fountain pen
- Fountain Valley
- four
- four-bagger
- four-ball
- four-by-four
- Four Cantons, Lake of the
- fourchette
- four-color
- Four Corners
- four-dimensional
- four-door
- Fourdrinier machine
- four-engined
- Fourex
- four-eyed
- four-eyed fish
- four-eyes
- four flush
- four-flusher