Sanskrit · noun · Nature & the Garden

Chatak

चातक

said CHAA-tak

also written: chaatak, chatrik

Meaning

The pied cuckoo said to drink only raindrops from the cloud; an emblem of single-minded longing.

Literally: from Skt cataka

Related words

The hawk-cuckoo or pied cuckoo; the rain-bird whose insistent cry pines for the raindrop and the beloved.

A cloud, especially the dark rain-cloud; the messenger-cloud of the longing heart.