Last names linked to CHARIOT

Origin

Carre : 1: French (Carré): from Old French carré ‘square’ applied as a nickname for a squat thickset man or a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of France called (Le) Carré named with the same word.2: French: metonymic occupational name for a cartwright or carter from the dialect word carre ‘cart wagon’ (see 3 below).3: English: from Middle English carre ‘cart wagon chariot sled’ (Anglo-Norman French Old French char ‘cart’ from Latin carrus) used to denote a carrier or a cartwright.4: English: sometimes a variant of Carr in northern and eastern (Scandinavian-influenced) counties.5: Catalan (Carré): topographic name from a variant of carrer ‘street’.

Chakraborty : Indian (West Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Brahmin name čokroborti in Bengali from Sanskrit čakravartī ‘emperor’ which means literally ‘wheels rolling’; metaphorically it denotes a ruler whose chariot wheels roll everywhere without obstruction (čakra ‘wheel’ + vart- ‘to roll’).

Rathi : Indian (Haryana Himachal Pradesh): Rajput Jat occupational surname for a chariot maker from an agent noun derived from Sanskrit rath ‘chariot’.

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