Pali cara (129)
According to Davids and Stede’s Pali-English Dictionary, the Pali word cara means “the act of going about, walking, one who walks or lives, one who is sent a message, a secret emissary, and a spy.” It traces its origin to the Tamil root kaṭu (movement) through the transformation of kaṭu (movement) > kar > car > cara > cara. The following words, related to Pali cara, also originate from Tamil kaṭu (movement).
okacara, “living in water.” ekacara, “solitary.” saddhiṁcara, “a companion.” carasā, “walking.” cara-vāda, “going about talk, gossip, idle talk.” sucara, “easy, duccara difficult.” caraka, “equal to cara (a messenger); walking through; any animal.” caraṇa, “walking about, grazing, feeding; the foot; acting, behaviour, good conduct.” sampannacaraṇa, “accomplished in right behavior.” caraṇavant, “one of good conduct (equal to sampanna-caraṇa).” carati, “to move about, to “live and move,” to behave, to be.” carāmi loke, “I move about (equal to I live) in the world.” agiho carati, “I lead a homeless life;” eko carati, “he keeps to himself;” sato carati, “he is mindful.” gocaraṁ and gaṇhanto carati, “to walk about grazing.” gavesanto carati, “to look for.” piṇḍāya carati, “to go for alms.” piṇḍāya carati gāmaṁ, “to the village.” carati cārikaṁ, “to wander about, to travel.” pabbata-cārikaṁ, “wandering over the mountains.” piṇḍa-cāraṁ and piṇḍa-cāraṁ carati, “to perform the begging-round.” esanaṁ caritaṁ, “to beg.” vadhaṁ caritaṁ, “to kill.” dukkhaṁ carati, “to undergo pain.” gocaraṁ carati, “to pasture.” kāmesu micchā carati, “to commit immorality.” brahmacariyaṁ carati, “to lead a life of purity.” dhammañ carati, “to walk in righteousness.” sucaritaṁ carati, “to act rightly.” duccaritaṁ carati, “to lead a bad life; to act perversely.” carāpeti, “to cause to move, to make go.” carita, “(adjective) going, moving, being like, behaving; (neuter) action, behaviour, living.” ekassa caritam, “living alone.” sucaritam and duccaritam, “good, right, proper or (neuter) good action, right conduct and the opposite.” caritaka, “conduct.” caritar, “walking, performing.” cariya and cariyā, “conduct, behaviour, state of, life of.” dhamma cariya and brahma cariya, “a good walk of life, proper conduct, chastity.” eka cariya, “living alone.” bhikkhācariya, “a life of begging.” naggacariya, “nakedness.” cariya-piṭaka, “the last book in the Khuddaka-nikāya.” cariya-manussa, “a spy, an outpost.” bhikkhāya carati, “to go out begging food.” go-cara, “pasture, literally “a cow’s grazing,” search after food; fodder, food, subsistence.” go-caraṇa, “pasturing.” cāra, “motion, walking, going; doing, behaviour, action, process.” kāmacāra, “going at will.” pamādacāra, “a slothful life.” piṇḍacāra, “alms-begging.” sabbaratticāra, “wandering all night.” cāra-vihāra, “doing and behaving, i.e., good conduct.” cāraka, (cārika) “wandering about, living, going, behaving, always.” cārikā, “journey, wandering.” cārikaṁ carati, “to go on alms-pilgrimage.” cārakañ pakkamati, “to set out wandering.” cāraṇa, “is equal to cāraka.” cāritta, “practice, proceeding, manner of acting, conduct.” cārittaṁ āpajjati, “to mix with, to call on, to have intercourse with.” cāritta-vāritta, “manner of acting and avoiding.” cāritta-sīla, “code of morality.” cārin, “walking, living, experiencing; behaving, acting, practising.” cāreti, “to set going, to pasture, feed, preserve.” indriyāni cāreti, “to feast one’s senses.” khantiṁ cāreti, “to feed meekness.” olambakaṁ cārento, “drooping.” cāriyamāna, “being handed round.” ācarati, “to practice, perform, indulge in; to step upon, pass through.” ācarin, “teaching.” ācarinī, “a female teacher.” ācariya, “a teacher.” sattamâcariyamahāyuga, “seventh age of great teachers.” ācariya-kula, “the clan of the teacher.” ācariya-dhana, “a teacher’s fee.” ācariya-pācariya, “teacher upon teacher, literally “teacher and teacher’s teacher.” ācariya-bhariyā, “the teacher’s fee.” ācariya-muṭṭhi, “the teacher’s fist i.e., close-fistedness in teaching, keeping things back.” ācariya-vaṁsa, “the line of the teachers.” ācariya-vatta, “serving the teacher, service to the teacher.” ācariya-vāda, “traditional teaching; later as heterodox teaching, sectarian teaching.” ācariyaka, “a teacher.” ācāra, “way of behaving, conduct, practice, especially right conduct, good manners; practising, indulging in, or of such and such a conduct.” anācāra, “bad behavior.” anācāraṁ ācarati, “indulge in bad habits.” ācāra-kusala, “versed in good manners.” ācāra-gocara, “pasturing in good conduct; i.e., practice of right behavior.” ācāra-vipatti, “failure of morality, a slip in good conduct.” ācārin, “of good conduct, one who behaves well.” uccāra, “discharge, excrement, faeces.” uccāraṁ gacchati, “to go to stool.” uccārakaraṇa, “defecation.” uccārapassāva, “faeces and urine.” uccāranā, “lifting up, raising.” uccārita, “uttered, let out; lifted, raised.” uccāreti, “to lift up, raise aloft.” upacarati, “to deal with, handle, use.” upacarita, “practised, served, enacted, performed.” upacāra, “approach, access; habit, practice, conduct; way, means application, use of (especially of spells etc.); entrance, access, i.e., immediate vicinity or neighbourhood of; attention, attendance; civility, polite behaviour.” niccharaṇa, “emanation, sending out, expansion, efflux.” niccharati, “to go out or forth from, to rise, sound forth, come out.” nicchāreti, “to make come out from, to let go forth, get rid of, emit, utter, give out.” nicchāreti, “causative of niccharati.” vicaraṇa, “going about, circulating, moving, travelling.” vicarati, “to go or move about in, to walk, to wander.” vicarita, “occupied by, haunted, frequented.” vicāra, “investigation, examination, consideration, deliberation.” vicāraka, “looking after something; watching; investigating; a judge.” vicāraṇā, and avicāraṇam, “investigation, search, attention; arranging, planning, looking after; scheme.” vicārita, “thought out, considered; thought.” vicāreti, “to make go round, to pass round, to distribute; to think (over); to investigate, examine, test; to plan, consider, construct; to go about (some business), to look after, administer, provide.” sañcara, “passage, way, medium.” sañcaraṇa, “wandering about, meeting meeting-place.” asañcaraṇa, “impassable.” sañcarati, “to go about, to wander; to meet, unite, come together; to move, to rock; to pass.” sañcāreti, “to cause to move about.” sañcarāpeti, “to cause to go, to emit; to make one’s mind dwell on.” sañcaritta, “going backwards and forwards, acting as go-between; intercourse.” sañcāra, “going, movement, passing through; passages entrance, road.” samācarati, “to behave, act, practice.” samācāra, “conduct, behavior.”