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कूचक्र (kUcakra)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
कूचक्र kUcakra
n.
 wheel for raising water from a well
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कू॑-चक्र
n.
 (for कूप-च्°?) a wheel for raising water from a well [NBD.
‘the female breast’,
Gmn.
 ],
RV.
 x, 102, 11.
Monier Williams 1872
English
कूचक्र कूचक्र, अस् or अम्? m. or n.? (for
कु-चक्र), Ved. the female breast.
Vedic Reference
English
Kūcakra is a word occurring only once in an obscure verse
of the Rigveda, ^1 where Zimmer^2 suggests that it has the sense
of the wheel by which water is raised from a well. Much
more probable is the interpretation of Roth, ^3 who understands
it to mean the female breast.
1) x. 102, 11.
2) Altindisches Leben, 157. Cf. Geldner,
Vedische Studien, 2, 14.
3) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
Grassman
German
kū́cakra, m., n., wol Brustwarze (der weiblichen Brust), vgl. kūca, kuca, cuci, die weibliche Brust, cūcuka, cucūka, cucuka, die Brustwarze, welche letztern durch Einfluss des u und die Anziehung des folgenden c das k in c verwandelt haben
noch weiter greift die Umwandlung in cūṣ (saugen). In der einzigen Stelle, wo kū́cakra vorkommt, [Page332] wird durch das Versmass die Lesart kū́caka statt kū́cakra wo nicht geboten, so doch sehr begünstigt.
-eṇa {928, 11}.