Word Origin Summary

چرخ is attested in Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. 𐫝𐫍𐫡Middle Persianinherited from
2. *kʷékʷlosProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
3. چرخFASborrowed from
4. *čaxrámProto-Indo-Iranianinherited from
5. *čakrámProto-Indo-Iranianinherited from

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