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कालीkālī

काली (kālī) is a Sanskrit word meaning black, dark-colored, or dark-blue, a black or dark-blue colour, the black part of the eye, the Indian cuckoo, the poisonous serpent Coluber Naga, the plant Cassia Sophora. Its 60 recorded definitions are grouped into 11 contexts, among them The Goddess Kālī & Divine Feminine Aspects, Male Deities/Figures Named Kāla or Related, Miscellaneous Objects, Phenomena, and Concepts.

Root
3. कल् (3. kal)
Definitions
60
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Meanings by context

The Goddess Kālī & Divine Feminine Aspects

11 definitions
the name of a shakti

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

an epithet of Durga

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a form of Durga

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

one of the divine mothers

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

one of the sixteen Vidyadevis

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a form of Durga

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Durga, the wife of Shiva

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Durva

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

1. A mother goddess and a varna shakti. 2. A goddess enshrined at Kalanjara.

— The Purana Index

a doorkeeper of Mahakala

— The Purana Index

1. A mind-born mother. 2. A form born from the bones of Nrisimha.

— The Purana Index

Miscellaneous Objects, Phenomena, and Concepts

10 definitions
the planet Saturn

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

of a mountain

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

one of the nine treasures

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a mystical name of the letter m

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

abuse, censure, defamation

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a kind of clay

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

one of the seven tongues or flames of fire

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Name of a river

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a kind of perfume

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

iron

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Plants and Plant Products

9 definitions
the plant Cassia Sophora

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a red kind of Plumbago

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the resin of the plant Shorea robusta

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the name of several plants

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the fruit of the Katuka plant

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the plant Kalanjani

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Ipomoea turpethum

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Bignonia suaveolens

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a black kind of Agallochum

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

The Color Black/Dark

6 definitions
black, dark-colored, or dark-blue

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a black or dark-blue colour

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the black part of the eye

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

black colour, ink, or blacking

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a row or succession of black clouds

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Black or of a dark blue color

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Satyavatī (Mother of Vyāsa)

4 definitions
1. Satyavati, wife of king Shantanu and mother of Vyasa. 2. According to other legends, the wife of Bhimasena and mother of Sarvagata.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Satyavati, the wife of Shantanu

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

the Dasheyi who brought forth Vicitravirya by Shantanu

— The Purana Index

the wife of Parashara and mother of Krishna-dvaipayana

— The Purana Index

Animals

3 definitions
the Indian cuckoo

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the poisonous serpent Coluber Naga

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a worm or insect generated in the sour fermentation of milk

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Other Specific Female Personages Named Kālī

3 definitions
a daughter of Daksha and mother of the Kaleyas

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Name of a female evil spirit

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

one of the wives of Bhimasena and mother of Sarvagata

— The Purana Index

Grammatical/Referential Notes

2 definitions
feminine form of kala

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

See page 278

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Kālī (f.): Lexicographical Summary

1 definition
1. Black ink. 2. An epithet of Parvati, Shiva's consort. 3. A row of black clouds. 4. A woman with a dark complexion. 5. Night. 6. An epithet of Satyavati, mother of Vyasa.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Night

1 definition
night

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 6 works: Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.