charkha


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
charkha /ˈtʃəːkə/ (also charka)
noun (in the Indian subcontinent) a domestic spinning wheel used chiefly for cotton.
– origin from Urdu charḵa ‘spinning wheel’, from Pers.
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