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kali yuga

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English

Syllables
kali yu-ga
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

In Hinduism, the fourth and most evil of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, traditionally thought to have begun at midnight (00:00) on 18 February, 3102 B.C.E. under the Julian calendar (23 January under the Gregorian calendar), and lasts for 432,000 years.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit कलियुग (kaliyuga, “age of darkness”), from कलि (kali, “Kali, Kalipurush, demon of corruption”) + युग (yuga, “yuga”). Some etymologies claim it was named after the worst throw in an ancient Indian dice game.

Inflected Forms

Kaliyuga (alternative) Kali-Yuga (alternative) Kalyug (alternative)

Phrases

Dvapara Yuga Treta Yuga Satya Yuga Krita Yuga

Frequently Paired Words

Dvapara Yuga Treta Yuga Satya Yuga Krita Yuga

Questions

What does kali yuga mean?
In Hinduism, the fourth and most evil of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, traditionally thought to have begun at midnight (00:00) on 18 February, 3102 B.C.E. under the Julian calendar (23 January under the Gregorian calendar), and lasts for 432,000 years.
Where does kali yuga come from?
Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit कलियुग (kaliyuga, “age of darkness”), from कलि (kali, “Kali, Kalipurush, demon of corruption”) + युग (yuga, “yuga”). Some etymologies claim it was named after the worst throw in an ancient Indian dice game.

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