a kind of sea-monster (sometimes confounded with the crocodile, shark, dolphin) · name of the 10th sign of the zodiac (Capricornus) · the 10th arc of 30 degrees in any circle L.
çekim: çoğul मक॑राः · tamlayan मक॑रस्य
köken: Of unclear origin. Likely a borrowing, along with नक्र (nakra, “Scorpio; alligator; sea monster”), to which it may be related, from a non-Indo-European source, perhaps Dravidian. Attempts to connect the word with fish names in Hellenic and Baltic, as well as with Old Church Slavonic мокръ (mokrŭ, “wet”), are unconvincing.