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 Kālīfromkālīfeminine ofkāla-darkof Dravidian origin Kannada kāḍublack, 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.