كالا

काला kālā[Prk. कालओ; S. कालकः], adj. & s.m. (f. -ī), Black, dark;—great, fearful, terrible;—a name of Krishṇ; the black and most venomous variety of the cobra, Coluber naga;—a sepoy:—kālā āṅćū, s.m. The hill bramble:—kālā-bāl, or kāle-bāl, s.m. lit.'Black hair or hairs,' the pubes; the groin;—kālā-bāl apnājānnāor samajhnā(-ko), To hold (one) in no esteem, or in great contempt:—kālā-bhujang, s.m. A black snake;—adj. Black as a snake, very black, jet black:—kālāpānī, s.m. lit.'Black water'; beyond the sea; transportation (across the sea):—kālāpahāṛ, s.m. A black mountain or hill; (met.) an elephant;—the head:—kālā-til, s.m. Sesamum orientale:—kālā ćor, s.m. A great thief;—an unknown person; a dark horse:—kālādāna, s.m. Name of a purgative seed,Ipomæa cœrulea; indigo seed; woad, Convolvulus nil:—kālādhatūrā, s.m. The purple thornapple, Datura fastuosa purpurascens:—kālādeo, s.m. A black demon; a great devil;—a very black man:—kālāzīra, or kālājīrā, s.m. Seed of the Nigella indica:—kālākaććū, s.m. Colocasia antiquorum:—kālākarnā, v.t. To make black, to blacken; to blot, scribble over, deface by scribbling:—kālā-kalūṭā, adj. (f. -ī), Black as a lamp-black box, coal-black, jet-black:—kālākastūrī, s.m. Abelmoschus moschatus:—kālākawwā, s.m. A black crow, a raven:—kālā-koelā, adj. (f. -ī), Coal-black:—kālā-kīkar, s.m. The Acacia arabica:—kālālobhiyā, s.m. Dolichos catjang:—kālā-muṅh karnā, or muṅh kālākarnā(-kā), To blacken the face (of), to disgrace,bring disgrace (on); to turn out with disgrace, to expel; to break off all connexion (with);—to copulate (with); to violate, to ravish:—kālānamakor kālālon, or kālānon, s.m. A kind of black rock-salt, impregnated with sulphur and bitumen, which leaves a hepatic flavour in the mouth (it is much used medicinally):—kālībalā, s.f. 'A black calamity'; a great evil; a plague; an old hag:—kāle-bāl, s.m. pl. See kālā-bāl:—kāle baran, adj. Of the colour of a snake; of a black colour:—kālībhūmi, s.f. A rich black soil, vegetable mould:—kālī-pīlī āṅkheṅkarnā, v.n. To look very angry and threatening:—kālītulsī, s.f. Basil, Ocymum basilicumor sanctum:—kālīzīrī, s.f. Vernonia (orSerratula) anthelmintica:—kālīsītalā, s.f. Malignant or confluent small-pox:—kālīsem, s.f. A bean, Dolichos villosus:—kālī-kuṭkī, s.f. Black hellebore,Helleborus niger:—kālīkaćkūrī, s.f. A variety of cowhage with a purplish stem, Dolichos (carpopogon) pruriens purpurascens;—kāle-kos, s.m. pl. 'Great distances,' a great distance:—kālīkīkar, s.f.=kālākīkar, q.v.:—kālīmātā, s.f.=kālīsītalā, q.v.:—kālīmiṭṭī, s.f. Black soil (=kālībhūmi);—black-lead:—kālīmirś, s.f. Black pepper, Piper nigrum:—kālīhāṅḍīsir-pe dharnā(-ke), 'To place a black pot on the head' (of); to bring disgrace (upon).