Kali

See also: kali, kāli, käli, kāļi, and kaḻi

Translingual

Etymology

After the Hindu goddess.

Proper noun

Kali f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Chiasmodontidae – certain snaketooth fishes, deep sea fish of fearsome appearance.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Amaranthaceae – certain prickly tumbleweeds; often included in genus Salsola.

Synonyms

• (genus of Amaranthaceae): (section)

Hypernyms

• (genus of Amaranthaceae): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots - clades; Caryophyllales - order; Amaranthaceae - family; Salsoloideae - subfamily;  - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus of Chiasmodontidae): , , , , , , (species)
• (genus of Amaranthaceae): , , , , , , , , , , , Kali turgida, (species)

References

• (genus of Chiasmodontidae):
  • Kali (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Kali on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Category:Chiasmodontidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Kali at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• (genus of Amaranthaceae):
  • Kali (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Kali (Amaranthaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Kali at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

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English

A 12th century bronze statue of the goddess Kali

Etymology

Sanskrit काली (kālī), feminine form of काला (kālā, “black”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːli/
• (anglicized alternative pronunciation of the given name) IPA^(key): /ˈkæli/

Proper noun

Kali

1. (Hinduism) A goddess in Hinduism, one of the most significant figures within that religion, who destroys evil forces and bestows liberation.
   • 1986, David R. Kinsley, Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition, 1988 paperback, page 122,

     Kālī is Śiva's "other" wife, as it were, provoking him and encouraging him in his mad, antisocial, often disruptive habits. It is never Kālī who tames Śiva but Śiva who must becalm Kālī.

   • 2000, Sanjukta Gupta, 27: The Worship of Kālī According to the Toḑala Tantra, David Gordon White (editor), Tantra in Practice, 2001, page 463,

     To many Hindu Bengalis, Kālī is the most important divinity. Identified with the great Goddess, Devi Bhagavati, she subsumes all other goddesses.

   • 2011, June McDaniel, 2: Kali: Goddess of Life, Death, and Transcendence, Patricia Monaghan (editor), Goddesses in World Culture, Volume 1, page 26,

     A popular form of Kali worshiped in Calcutta is Adya Shakti Kali, or Kali as primordial power. Adya Shakti Kali is also present in some tantras, especially the Mahanirvana Tantra. Because she devours Kala or Time, she is Kali, the original form of all things, and because she is the origin and devourer of all things, she is called Adya Kali.

2. (Hinduism) A male demon, lord of Kali Yuga and the nemesis of Kalki, tenth Avatar of Vishnu.
3. A female given name from Sanskrit used especially in India.

Related terms

• Bhadrakali

Translations

goddess

• Basque: Kali
• Bulgarian: Кали (Kali)
• Czech: Kálí f
• Danish: Kali
• Dutch: Kálii
• Finnish: Kali
• French: Kâlî
• German: Kali (de)
• Hungarian: Káli
• Indonesian: Kali
• Irish: Cailí f
• Italian: Kali
• Japanese: カーリー (kārī)
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• Korean: 칼리 (kalli)
• Marathi: काली f (kālī)
• Polish: Kali (pl)
• Portuguese: Kali
• Russian: Ка́ли (ru) (Káli)
• Sanskrit: काली (Kālī)
• Spanish: Kali (es)
• Swedish: Kali
• Telugu: కాళి (te) (kāḷi)
• Thai: กาลี (th) (kālī)
• Turkish: Kali
• Urdu: کالی (kālī)

male demon

• Marathi: कलि m (kali)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Sanskrit: कलि (Kali)

female given name

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• Kali on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Kali (Demon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Kali in sculpture on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Category:Paintings of Kali on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Kail, Laki, Lika, ilka, kail, kila, laik

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German

Noun

Kali n (genitive Kalis, plural Kalis)

1. potash (Short form of Kalisalz)

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Greenlandic

Alternative forms

• (old orthography) Kale

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish Christen.

Proper noun

Kali

1. a male given name from Danish.

Related terms

• Kajistiaat
• Kalistat
• Kalistiaat
• Kari

References

• Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (Greenlandic personal names), Oqaasileriffik 2015, →ISBN
• [1] Danskernes navne 2005, including the residents of Greenland

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Kali f

1. (Hinduism) Kali (goddess)

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Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Kali ? (Cyrillic spelling Кали)

1. A municipality of Croatia.