Char Definition

Origin of Char

• From Middle English cherre (“odd job”), from Old English ċierr (“a turn, change, time, occasion, affair, business”), from ċierran (“to turn, change, turn oneself, go, come, proceed, turn back, return, regard, translate, persuade, convert, be converted, agree to, submit, make to submit, reduce”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Dutch keer (“a time, turn, occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn, bight, bend”), Greek γύρος (gýros, “a bout, whirl”), gyre. Compare Sanskrit "char" (to do), "kri" (to do), "kar" (to perform), and Persian کار (kar, “work”). More at chore, ajar.

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• Middle English a piece of work from Old English cierr a turning

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• From Mandarin 茶 (chá), with intrusive r.

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• Back-formation from charcoal

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• Origin unknown, perhaps from Celtic.

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• Back-formation from charcoal.

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• Abbreviation of character.

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• Origin unknown

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition