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काल kāl[S. अकालः], s.m. Bad or inauspicious time; dearth, famine; calamity;—adj. Bad, inauspicious; unseasonable:—kālupakār, s.m. Famine-relief:—kāl-belā, s.f. Inauspicious or unlucky time:—kāl-pātr, s.m. (f. -ī), A victim of famine:—kāl paṛnā, Famine to happen; the coming on of famine:—kāl-kāṭūṭā, orkāl-kāmārā, adj. & s.m. (f. -ī), Faminestricken;—a victim of famine; a starveling:—kāl-kākām, s.m. Famine work.
Origin: Hindi