চারি
Bengali
Alternative forms
- ৪ (4)
- চার (car)
- চাইর (cair) – Vaṅga
Etymology
From Old-Bengali-Assamese চারি (cari), from Sanskrit चत्वारः (catvāraḥ), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čatwā́ras, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Numeral
চারি • (cari)
- Alternative form of চার (car, “four”)
Note
Chiefly used in compounds in Standard Bengali, most notably চারিদিকে (caridike, “all around”)