काल

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1) time
 * 2) era, epoch, age, period
 * 3)  death
 * 4)  tense
 * 1)  tense
 * 1)  tense

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1) famine; bad times

Etymology
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Adverb

 * 1) yesterday

Adverb

 * 1) yesterday

Noun

 * 1)  (“time”)

Etymology 1
, ultimately from ; compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬,.

Adjective

 * 1) black, dark blue

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Noun

 * 1) black, dark blue colour
 * 2) pupil dark part of the eye

Noun

 * 1) a black kind of agarwood from  (now )
 * 2) a kind of perfume
 * 3) iron

Etymology 2
Of origin.

Perhaps an l-form of, taking "decisive action" as the connotation.

Alternatively, derived from ; compare for a parallel semantic development from an earlier "turn" meaning (albeit from a different root).

Hirt compares this to 🇨🇬, while Güntert compares this to 🇨🇬, and takes the l-consonant in as a preservation of a dialectal form in order to distinguish from.

Probably not a of the root.

Noun

 * 1) a fixed or right point of time, a space of time, time (in general)
 * 2) the proper time or season for (+genitive, dative, locative, in compound, infinitive, or subjunctive with
 * 3) occasion, circumstance
 * 4) season
 * 5) hour
 * 6) a period of time, time of the world
 * 7) measure of time, prosody
 * 8) a section, part
 * 9) the end
 * 10) death by age
 * 11) time (as leading to events, the causes of which are imperceptible to the mind of man), destiny, fate
 * 12) time (as destroying all things), death, time of death (often personified and represented with the attributes of Yama, regent of the dead, or even identified with him
 * 13) Kāla, personified is also a  in Indra's court, and a son of Dhruva
 * 1) Kāla, personified is also a  in Indra's court, and a son of Dhruva
 * 1) Kāla, personified is also a  in Indra's court, and a son of Dhruva

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