My yearly reminder to the Anglophones that "Cheetah" is a borrowing from #Hindi चीता cītā (Cheetah) < #Prakrit citta-a चित्तअ (Acinonyx jubatus) < #Sanskrit citraka चित्रक (Acinonyx jubatus) < citra चित्र (multicolored, speckled).
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RT @wonderofscience
A cheetah running at full speed covers about 7m (23 ft) with each stride.
https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/1542146051658104832
The word chitkabrā चितकबरा citkabrā (spotted, speckled) and चित्ती cittī (spot, stain) are also related to citra चित्र
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RT @avtansa
काबरा kābrā is one of the 72 1⁄2 sub-castes of Maheshwari community originally from Rajasthan. Interestingly the word kābrā means variegated/spotted and the word is present in Hindi words e.g. cit-kabarā(speckled). kābrā is related to karbara which is from a Austro-Asiatic lang.
https://twitter.com/avtansa/status/1373705259428765701
“काबरा kābrā is one of the 72 1⁄2 sub-castes of Maheshwari community originally from Rajasthan. Interestingly the word kābrā means variegated/spotted and the word is present in Hindi words e.g. cit-kabarā(speckled). kābrā is related to karbara which is from a Austro-Asiatic lang.”
Abhishek Avtans