chakra
nounUK /ˈtʃæ.kɹə/ · US /ˈt͡ʃɑː.kɹə/
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.
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Ayurveda, Alternative medicine, Medicine, Sciences Hinduism 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.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:
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Synonym of hackery.
- ...bahlis, chakras, bullock-carts, dolis, tattus, palkis, miyanas, kharkharinas, bajras and chaupalas, were the common vehicles.1911, Calendar of Persian Correspondence..., page xxvi:
- Derived terms
- chakra healing, chakral, chakric