Kali

Definitions: Kali

Kali

Noun

1. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash.

2. Wife of Siva and malevolent form of Devi; "the black".

"Kali" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the black one".

Date "kali" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Kali A data parallel language. ["Supporting Shared Data Structures on Distributed Memory Architectures", C. Koelbel et al in Second ACM SIGPLAN Symp on Princ and Prac of Parallel Programming, pp.177-186, Mar 1990]. (1994-11-09). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Literature	Kali A Hindu goddess after whom Calcutta receives its name, Kali-Kutta (Kali's village). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Kali is a destructive and creative mother goddess in Hinduism. Kali is the fierce aspect of Devi, the supreme goddess, who is fundamental to all other Hindu deities.

The continuous, ongoing work of Creation is described as "the play of Kali".

Kali is considered to be the destroyer of evil spirits and the preserver of devotees. She is the consort of Shiva. Her name apparently derives from the word 'kala' (Sanskrit for 'time' or 'dark'); it also means Black Female, in contrast to her consort, Shiva, who is white; and Kali is the common name for Energy in her form as Shiva's wife, or Shakti. She is also called Durga. Other names are: Bhowani Devi, Sati, Rudrani, Parvati, Chinnamastika, Kamakshi, Uma, Menakshi, Himavati, Kumari. These names, if repeated, are believed to give special power to the worshipper.

Skulls, cemeteries, and blood are associated with her worship. She is black and emaciated. Her face is azure, streaked with yellow, her glance is ferocious; her disheveled and bristly hair is usually shown splayed and spread like the tail of a peacock and sometimes braided with green serpents. She wears a long necklace (descending almost to her knees) of human skulls. She may be shown wearing a girdle of severed arms. Children's corpses as earrings, and cobras as bracelets or garlands add to her terrifying adornments. Her purple lips are often shown streaming with blood; her tusk-like teeth descend over her lower lip; and her tongue lolls out. She is often shown standing on the inert form of her consort, Shiva. She is sometimes accompanied by she-demons. Her eight arms hold weapons or the severed head of a demon: these objects symbolize both her creative and her destructive power, for Kali personifies the ambivalence of deity, which manifests itself, according to Indian tradition, in the unceasing cycle of life and death, creation and destruction.

Her poor reputation in the West came from the cult of the Thuggee, Hindus and Muslims who took the goddess Kali as their deity. They robbed and murdered travellers as sacrifices to Kali and were destroyed by the British.

For her Tantric worshippers, it was essential to face her Curse, the terror of death, as willingly as they accepted Blessings from her beautiful, nurturing, maternal aspect. For them, wisdom meant learning that no coin has only one side: as death cannot exist without life, so life cannot exist without death. Kali is also a martial art. See Eskrima.

Synonyms: Kali

Synonyms: barilla (n), glasswort (n), kelpwort (n), saltwort (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Jupiter	Allah, Bathala, Brahm, Brahma, Brahma, cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread, the Great Spirit, Ushas; water nymph, wood nymph; Yama, Varuna, Zeus; Vishnu, Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath, Buddha; Isis, Osiris, Ra; Belus, Bel, Baal, Asteroth; Thor, Odin; Mumbo Jumbo; good genius, tutelary genius; demiurge, familiar; sibyl; fairy, fay; sylph, sylphid; Ariel, peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie, Ormuzd; Oberon, Mab, hamadryad, naiad, mermaid, kelpie, Ondine, nixie, sprite; denizens of the air; pixy; (bad spirit).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Kali

English words defined with "kali": Kaliform ♦ Salsola kali, Salsola kali tenuifolia ♦ Yuga. (references)

Specialty definitions using "kali": Kali iki. (references)

Etymologies containing "kali": Kalium. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Kali" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Finnish (potash, potassium oxide), Serbo-Croatian (kali), Swahili (abrasive, hot, lurid, sharp), Swedish (potass, potassium, pottasic).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Prepare to meet Kali in Hell! (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; writing credit: George Lucas; Willard Huyck)
Lyrics	Kali Yuga (A Pale Horse Against Time; performing artist: The Who)
Movie/TV Titles	Ek Kali Muskayee (1968) Ekso ftoheia kai kali kardia (1964) Kashmir Ki Kali (1964) La dea della vendetta Kali Yug (1963) Piasame tin kali (1955)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Evidence of Guilt: A Kali O'Brien Mystery (reference) Kali Puja (reference) Song of Kali (reference) The Kali Guide: A Directory of Resources for Women (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Kali Thunder (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Nepal	Police in Butwal also detained the editor of Mechi Kali Daily on December 17 and released him the following day. (references)
Economic History	Nepal	The $453 million, 144 MW Kali Gandaki A Project is already under construction, with financing from the Asian Development Bank. (references)
	Nepal	This is a 144-megawatt project that will generate 842 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy annually using the flow of the Kali Gandaki River in western Nepal. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Kali" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 65.38% of the time. "Kali" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	65.38%	17	85,106
Noun (plural)	23.08%	6	143,867
Adjective (general or positive)	11.54%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	26	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "kali" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Kali	First name Female	2,000	2,180
Kali	Last name	200	37,715
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

"Kali" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the black one".

The following table summarizes names related to "Kali."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Kali	Female	Hindu Mythology	N/A
Kalidas	Male	Indian	Kali
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "kali": Kali Yoga ♦ Salsola kali ♦ Salsola kali tenuifolia. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "kali": Kali-anne, kali-chemical, Kali-film.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "kali"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		Ballagóhû. (various references)

Pig Latin		alikay

Portuguese		Calendas (calends), Barrilha-espinhosa, Barrilha (kelp). (various references)

Russian		Окись Калия, Поташ. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kali. (various references)

Swedish		Pottaska (pearl-ash, potash), Lut (lixivium, lye). (various references)

Turkish		Salikorn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "kali": kalian, kalians, kalif, kalifate, kalifates, kalifs, kalimba, kalimbas, kaliph, kaliphs, kalium, kaliums. (additional references)
	Words ending with "kali": alkali. (additional references)
	Words containing "kali": alkalic, alkalies, alkalified, alkalifies, alkalify, alkalifying, alkalimeter, alkalimeters, alkalimetries, alkalimetry, alkalin, alkaline, alkalinities, alkalinity, alkalinization, alkalinizations, alkalinize, alkalinized, alkalinizes, alkalinizing, alkalis, alkalise, alkalised, alkalises, alkalising, alkalize, alkalized, alkalizes, alkalizing, dekaliter, dekaliters, lookalike, lookalikes, silkaline, silkalines. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Kali" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: akil, Akli, Akoli, Akqi, cxli, Kahlid, kai, kal, kala, Kalak, kalan, Kalar, Kalay, kalb, kalc, kald, Kaleb, kalee, kalem, kalen, kaler, kalia, kalid, kalija, Kalili, Kalilu, kalin, kalis, Kalk, kall, Kalla, Kallab, kallah, Kalle, Kallir, Kallu, Kalo, Kaloi, Kalou, kalt, Kalu, kalv, Kalvi, kaly, Kami, Kamla, kapi, Karlie, Kasi, kasih, kaui, kavi, Kealy, keil, Keli, kelic, khali, khalif, Khalin, khalqi, kili, kilj, killi, klay, kli, klia, koil, Koli, Koyli, Kralis, Kralj, kuhli, Kulbir, kuli, Kulig, kulit, Kullig, Kuly, kyli, oklahi, Okoli, qali, qkly, ukaiim, Ukal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: ilka, kail.
	Words within the letters "a-i-k-l"
	-1 letter: ail, ilk.
	-2 letters: ai, al, ka, la, li.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-k-l"
	+1 letter: alike, kails, kalif, kibla, tilak, vakil.
	+2 letters: alfaki, alkali, alkies, alkine, alsike, axlike, calkin, kalian, kalifs, kaliph, kalium, kalmia, kaolin, khalif, kiblah, kiblas, kulaki, lakier, laking, likuta, malkin, miskal, saluki, talkie, tilaks, vakils.
	+3 letters: airlike, alfakis, alkalic, alkalin, alkalis, alkines, alkylic, alsikes, ankling, antlike, apelike, armlike, asslike, backlit, balkier, balkily, balking, batlike, calking, calkins, catlike, clarkia, fanlike, fatlike, flakier, flakily, flaking, flokati, gawkily, glaiket, glaikit, halakic, hatlike, jawlike, kalians, kalimba, kaliphs, kaliums, kalmias, kaoline, kaolins, keitloa, khalifa, khalifs, kiblahs, kilobar, kilorad, kolbasi, lacking, ladykin, lakiest, lakings, lambkin, lankier, lankily, larkier, larking, larkish, latakia, lawlike, leakier, leakily, leaking, likable, linkage, linkman, malkins, manlike, maplike, milkman, miskals, oaklike, oarlike, oatlike, odalisk, palikar, pawkily, pealike, quakily, ratlike, raylike, saclike, salukis, sawlike, shakily, shaslik, skaldic, skiable, skysail, slaking, snakily, tackily, taglike, talkier, talkies, talking, tealike, titlark, unalike, wackily, walking, warlike, waxlike.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 61 6C 69

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.- .- .-.. ..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01100001 01101100 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#97 &#108 &#105

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0061 006C 0069

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

45677875

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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
kali	441	filipino kali	6
goddess kali	50	art kali martial	6
kali sayoc	28	kali technique	6
kali martial arts	23	fighting kali knife	6
kali ma	22	kali maa	6
kali yuga	15	kali sara	5
kali pertama	13	kali carbonicum	5
kali stick	10	kali knife	5
kali escrima arnis	10	mother kali	5
kali rocha	10	kali shiva	5
diosa kali la	9	kali statue	5
kali marina	9	kali mist	5
kali phos	8	kali serial	5
kali picture	8	kali mur	5
goddess kali picture	8	kali ii	4
kali silat	8	kali wear	4
download kali	7	kali temple	4
kali hindu goddess	7	bahlu kali	4
group kali minnesota	7	kali laboratory	4
escrima kali	6	game kali	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Kali

Definitions: Kali

Kali

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Kali

Specialty Definition: Kali

Synonyms: Kali

Synonyms within Context: Kali

Jupiter

Crosswords: Kali

Modern Usage: Kali

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Commercial Usage: Kali

Books

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Image Slideshow: Kali

Illustrations:Kali

Non-Fiction Usage: Kali

Usage Frequency: Kali

Name Usage Frequency: Kali

Derived & Related Names: Kali

Expressions: Kali

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Kali

Modern Translations: Kali

Hungarian

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Swedish

Turkish

Derivations & Misspellings: Kali

Derivations

Misspellings

Anagrams: Kali

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Kali

4B 61 6C 69

-.- .- .-.. ..

01001011 01100001 01101100 01101001

&#75 &#97 &#108 &#105

004B 0061 006C 0069

45677875

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