चञ्चल (cañcala) is a Sanskrit word meaning moving to and fro, unsteady, shaking, or flickering, unsteady, inconstant, inconsiderate, the wind, a lover or libertine, an epithet of an Asura, a wagtail. Its 20 recorded definitions are grouped into 10 contexts, among them Adjective: Moving, Unsteady, Fickle (and related senses), Noun: Specific Fauna (Wagtail, Cricket), Noun: A Metre.
Root
चल्(cal)
Etymology
E. चल to go, in the reiterative form, नुम् inserted
चञ्चल (cañcala) [Printed book page 090-a3] चञ्चल (cañcala) cañ-cal-a, a. moving to and fro, unsteady, fickle: -tva,n. instability, fickleness. [ID=7347]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Trembling or unsteady. 2. Fickle. 3. The wind. 4. A lover or libertine. 5. Lightning. 6. The goddess Lakshmi. 7. Long pepper.
2 Fickle, inconsiderate, inconstant, (unsteady, metaphorically.) m. (-लः (-laḥ))
1 The wind.
2 A lecher, a libertine, a lover. f. (-ला (-lā))
1 Lightning.
2 LAKṢMĪ or the goddess of fortune.
3 Longpepper.
E. चल (cala) to go, in the reiterative form, नुम् (num) inserted.
[ID=14644]
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Trembling or fickle. 2. The wind or a libertine. 3. Lightning or Lakshmi.
चञ्चल (cañcala) [Printed book page 274-b] चञ्चल (cañcala)(लः-ला (lā)-लं) ((laḥ-lā-laṃ))a. Trembling, fickle. m. The wind; a libertine. f. (ला (lā)) Lightning; Lakshmi. [ID=14098]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Trembling, unsteady, or fickle. 2. The wind or a libertine. 3. Lightning, Lakshmi, or long pepper.
चञ्चल (cala) (cañcala) [Printed book page 259-a] चञ्चल (cala) (cañcala)
1. Lightning. 2. LAKSHMI or the goddess of the fortune.
3. Long pepper.
E. चल (cala) to go, in the reiterative form, नुम् (num) inserted. चन्च अलच् । चञ्चं गतिं (canca alac . cañcaṃ gatiṃ)लाति ला क वा । (lāti lā ka vā .)
[ID=14636]
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Moving to and fro, unsteady. 2. Fickle.
चञ्चल (cañcala) [Printed book page 0289-b] चञ्चल (cañcala)cañcal + a (frequent. of
cal), adj., f.lā.1. Moving to and fro,
unsteady, MBh. 8, 3920.; Pañc. 204,
1. 2. Fickle, Kathās. 7, 57.
[ID=4796]
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Unsteady, fickle.
2. A lover or libertine.
चञ्चल (cañcala) [Printed book page 165] चञ्चल (cañcala)a. movable, unsteady, unconstant, fickle; abstr.°त्व (°tva)n. — m. lover, libertine. [ID=10159]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
moving to and fro
चञ्चल (cañcala) [Printed book page 154-a] cañcala,a. moving to and fro; trembling. [√cal,1148. 4, w.intens. reduplication, cf.1002b: cf. κίγ-καλ-ος, ‘wag-tail’; Lat.quer-quer-us, ‘shaking with fever chills.’] [ID=1455]
— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary
1. Moving to and fro, unsteady, trembling, fickle, or inconstant.
2. The wind.
3. A lover or libertine.
4. Lightning.
5. Long pepper.
6. Fortune or the goddess Lakshmi.
7. A specific poetic meter.
चञ्चल (cañcala) [Printed book page 0312-c] चञ्चल (cañcala)cañcala, as, ā, am (fr. Intens. of rt. cal), moving to and fro, movable, unsteady, shaking, trembling; unsteady, inconstant, inconsiderate, quiver- ing, flickering, playing, moving irregularly; fickle; (as), m. the wind; a lover, a libertine, a lecher; (ā), f. lightning; long pepper; fortune, Lakṣmī or the goddess of fortune; N. of a metre consisting of four lines of sixteen syllables each. —Cañcala-tā, f. or cañcala-tva, am, n. movableness, unsteadiness, inconstancy, fickleness. —Cañcala-hṛdaya, as, ā,am, capricious, fickle, false-hearted. —Cañcalā-kṣikā (°la-akṣi), f., N. of a metre consisting of four lines of twelve syllables each. —Cañcalākhya(°la-ākh°), as, m. incense. [ID=18140]
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Definitions on this page come from 9 works:
Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
