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Every entry for a word in Apte, Monier-Williams, Macdonell and the Dhātupāṭha, with their abbreviations spelled out, and an analysis of its forms.

Results for कलि

3 dictionaries · exact headword

Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. कलिkaliStrife, quarrel, dissension, contention; शठ कलिरेष महांस्त्वयाद्य दत्तः Śi.7.55; कलिकामजित् R.9.33, Amaru.23.

    [कल्-इनि]

    1. Strife, quarrel, dissension, contention; शठ कलिरेष महांस्त्वयाद्य दत्तः Śi.7.55; कलिकामजित् R.9.33, Amaru.23.
    2. War, battle. अविषह्यैस्तमाक्षेपैः क्षिपन्संजनयन् कलिम् । Bhāg.1.55.17.
    3. The fourth age of the world, the iron age (consisting of 432, years of men and beginning from the 13th of February 312 B. C.); दानमेकं कलौ युगे Ms.1.86,9.31; कलिवर्ज्यानि इमानि etc.
    4. Kali age personified (this Kali persecuted Nala).
    5. The worst of any class.
    6. The Bibhītaka tree.
    7. The side of a die which is marked with one point. घृतेन कलिं शिक्षामि Av.7.19.1.
    8. A hero.
    9. An arrow. -Feminine A bud.
    10. Compound कारः, कारकः, क्रियः an epithet of Nārada.
    11. the karanja tree.
    12. a kind of bird.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -द्रुमः, -वृक्षः the Bibhītaka tree.

    • -प्रिय

      1. Adjective quarrelsome.
      2. (यः) Name of Nārada.
      3. a monkey, ape; Ms.1.85.

    • -मारकः a kind of karanja tree.

    • -युगम् the Kali age; Ms.1.85.

    • -संतरणम् Name of an Upaniṣad.

    • -हारी Feminine a kind of medicine (विषलाङ्गली).

    Source: Apte

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. कलिkalim. (√1. कल् Comm. on Un2. iv, 117), N. of the die or side of a die marked with one dot, the losing die AV.…
    1. masculine gender (√1. कल् commentator or commentary on Un2. iv, 117), Name of the die or side of a die marked with one dot, the losing die AV. vii, 109, 1 S3Br. etc. (personified as an evil genius in the episode of Nala नल)
    2. masculine gender symbolical expression for the number 1
    3. masculine gender Terminalia Bellerica (the nuts of which in older times were used as dice) Lexicographers
    4. masculine gender Name of the last and worst of the four Yugas युग s or ages, the present age, age of vice AitBr. Mn. i, 86; ix, 301 feminine MBh. etc. (the Kali कलि age contains, inclusive of the two dawns, 1200 years of the gods or 432,000 years of men, and begins the eighteenth of February, 3102 Bombay editionCalcutta edition; at the end of this Yuga युग the world is to be destroyed; see युग)
    5. masculine gender strife, discord, quarrel, contention (personified as the son of क्रोध, "Anger", and हिंसा, "Injury", and as generating with his sister दुरुक्ति, "Calumny." two children, viz. भय, "Fear", and मृत्यु, "Death" BhP. iv, 8, 3; 4) MBh. Hit. etc.
    6. masculine gender the worst of a class or number of objects MBh. xii, 361; 363
    7. masculine gender a hero (or an arrow, शूर, or शर) Lexicographers
    8. masculine gender Name of S3iva शिव MBh. xiii, 1192
    9. masculine gender Name of an Upanishad उपनिषद् (Equivalent to कलिसंतरण)
    10. masculine gender (/इस्) Name of a class of mythic beings (related to the Gandharvas गन्धर्व s, and supposed by some to be fond of gambling; in epic poetry Kali कलि is held to be the fifteenth of the Deva-gandharvas देव-गन्धर्व s or children of the Munis मुनि s) AV. x, 10, 13 MBh. Hariv.
    11. masculine gender Name of a man fg-veda
    12. f(इस्, ई). an unblown flower, bud Lexicographers
    13. (in compound)
    Source: Monier-Williams

Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary
  1. कलिkali[káli] m. die or side of a die marked with one point (also personified); the fourth and worst age of the…

    [káli] masculine die or side of a die marked with one point (also personified); the fourth and worst age of the world; dissension, strife (also personified).

    Source: Macdonell

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