काली

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kɑː.liː/,

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit कालिय (kāliya). Doublet of कालिय (kāliya).

काली • (kālī) m (Urdu spelling کالی)

1. Kaliya (a Nāga living in the Yamuna river)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit काली (kālī). By surface analysis, काल (kāl) +‎ -ई (-ī).

काली • (kālī) f (Urdu spelling کالی) (rare, formal)

1. night

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:रात

2. black ink
3. darkness, blackness
4. abuse, censure, defamation

काली • (kālī) f (Urdu spelling کالی)

1. (Hinduism) Kali, title of goddess Durga

   काली माँ ― kālī mā̃ ― mother Kali

2. a female given name, Kali, from Sanskrit
3. one of the seven tongues or flames of fire
4. Satyavati (wife of Shantanu)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

काली • (kālī) (Urdu spelling کالی)

1. direct/oblique/vocative feminine singular/plural of काला (kālā)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “काली”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “काली”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “काली”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “काली”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• “काली”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kālī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

From काल (kāla, “blackness”) +‎ -ई (-ī), from Proto-Dravidian *kār-.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɑː.liː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.l̪iː/

काली • (kālī) stem, f

1. black colour, ink or blacking
2. abuse, censure, defamation
3. a row or succession of black clouds
4. night

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:रात्रि

5. a worm or animalcule generated in the acetous fermentation of milk

   Synonym: क्षीरकीट (kṣīrakīṭa)

6. a kind of clay

काली • (kālī) stem, f

1. (Hinduism) Kali (the most terrifying goddess, wife of Shiva, identified as Parvati in her benevolent aspect)
2. Satyavati (wife of Shantanu)
3. name of the plant kālāñjanī
4. Operculina turpethum
5. Bignonia suaveolens
6. one of the seven tongues or flames of fire
7. name of a female evil spirit (mother of the Kalakeyas)
8. one of the sixteen Vidyadevis
9. name of a river

• Assamese: কালী (kali)
• Bengali: কালী (kali)
• Chinese: 迦梨 (Jiālí)
• English: Kali
• Gujarati: કાલિ (kāli)
• Hindi: काली (kālī)
• Malayalam: കാളി (kāḷi)
• Marathi: काली (kālī)
• Burmese: ကာလီ (kali)
• Nepali: काली (kālī)
• Newar: काली (kālī)
• Punjabi: ਕਾਲੀ (kālī)
• Sindhi: ڪالي
• Sinhalese: කාලී (kālī)
• Tamil: காளி (kāḷi)
• Telugu: కాళి (kāḷi)
• Thai: กาลี (gaa-lii)

काली • (kālī)

1. feminine of काल (kāla)

   Synonyms: श्यामा (śyāmā), कृष्णा (kṛṣṇā)

• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “काली”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Monier Williams (1899) “काली”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 277.