कलि

A derivative of the root कल् (kal).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ́.li/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.l̪i/

कलि • (káli) stem, m

1. name of the die or side of a die marked with one dot, the losing die (personified as an evil genius in the episode of nala)
2. symbolical expression for the number 1
3. Terminalia bellerica (the nuts of which in older times were used as dice)
4. Kali Yuga: name of the last and worst of the four yugas or ages, the present age, age of vice (the kali- 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 B.C.;at the end of this yuga- the world is to be destroyed)
5. Kali: strife, discord, quarrel, contention (personified as the son of krodha-,"Anger", and hiṃsā-,"Injury", and as generating with his sister durukti-,"Calumny."two children, viz. bhaya-,"Fear", and mṛtyu-,"Death" )
6. the worst of a class or number of objects

• कलिपुरुष (kalipuruṣa) (the demon Kali or Kalipurush, representing the widespread wickedness that dominates the Kali Yuga era)
• कलियुग (kaliyuga) (Kali Yuga, the wicked age of the demon Kalipurush)

• Monier Williams (1899) “कलि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 261.