Kali meaning

kä'lē
One of the manifestations and cult titles of the wife of Shiva and mother goddess Devi, especially in her malevolent role as a goddess of death and destruction, depicted as black, red-eyed, blood-stained, and wearing a necklace of skulls.
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A Hindu goddess viewed both as destroying life and as giving it.
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A Linux distribution that is used by security professionals to examine or repair a failed or compromised computer. A major tool in the computer forensics lab, Kali Linux comes with hundreds of penetration-testing utilities. Derived from the Debian Linux root, Kali is often booted from a live CD or live USB. See Linux, Debian, computer forensics and penetration test.
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The prickly glasswort (Kali turgida, formerly Salsola kali).
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(Hinduism) A goddess in Hinduism, one of the most significant figures within that religion.
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(Hinduism) A male demon, lord of Kali Yuga and the nemesis of Kalki, tenth Avatar of Vishnu.
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A female given name used in India.
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Origin of kali

Sanskrit Kālī from kālī feminine of kāla- dark of Dravidian origin Kannada kāḍu black, blackness

Sentence Examples

  • of Cape Lithinos is the small bay of Kali Limenes or Fair Havens, where the ship conveying St Paul took refuge (Acts xxvii.

  • The only other important river is the Kali Nadi, which traverses the entire length of the district from north-east to south-west.

  • Though they themselves trace their origin to seven Mahommedan tribes, Hindus appear to have been associated with them at an early period; at any rate, their religious creed and practices as stanch worshippers of Kali (Devi, Durga), the Hindu goddess of destruction, had certainly no flavour of Islam in them.

  • It lies among the mountains of Kumaon, between the upper waters of the Ganges and the Gogra, here called the Kali.

  • excrescence upon Hinduism, in so far as the bands of secret assassins were sworn together by an oath based on the rites of the bloody goddess Kali.

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