कलि

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A derivative of the root कल् (kal).

कलि • (káli) stem, m

name of the die or side of a die marked with one dot, the losing die (personified as an evil genius in the episode of nala)
symbolical expression for the number 1
Terminalia bellerica (the nuts of which in older times were used as dice)
name of the last and worst of the four yugas or ages, the present age, age of vice (the kali- age contains, inclusive of the two dawns, 1200 years of the gods or 432,000 years of men, and begins the eighteenth of February, 3102 B.C.;at the end of this yuga- the world is to be destroyed)
strife, discord, quarrel, contention (personified as the son of krodha-,"Anger", and hiṃsā-,"Injury", and as generating with his sister durukti-,"Calumny."two children, viz. bhaya-,"Fear", and mṛtyu-,"Death" )
the worst of a class or number of objects

Masculine i-stem declension of कलि (káli)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	कलिः káliḥ	कली kálī	कलयः kálayaḥ
Vocative	कले kále	कली kálī	कलयः kálayaḥ
Accusative	कलिम् kálim	कली kálī	कलीन् kálīn
Instrumental	कलिना / कल्या¹ kálinā / kályā¹	कलिभ्याम् kálibhyām	कलिभिः kálibhiḥ
Dative	कलये kálaye	कलिभ्याम् kálibhyām	कलिभ्यः kálibhyaḥ
Ablative	कलेः / कल्यः¹ káleḥ / kályaḥ¹	कलिभ्याम् kálibhyām	कलिभ्यः kálibhyaḥ
Genitive	कलेः / कल्यः¹ káleḥ / kályaḥ¹	कल्योः kályoḥ	कलीनाम् kálīnām
Locative	कलौ / कला¹ kálau / kálā¹	कल्योः kályoḥ	कलिषु káliṣu
Notes	¹Vedic

कलिपुरुष (kalipuruṣa) (the demon Kali, representing the widespread wickedness that dominates the Kali Yuga era)

Monier Williams (1899) “कलि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 261.