Kali
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late 16th century: from colloquial Arabic qalī ‘calcined ashes of Salsola (and similar plants)’; compare with alkali.
wiktionary
Arabic قِلْي (qily). See alkali.
Uncertain; see arnis#Name at Wikipedia for more.
Uncertain; possibly a reference to the appearance of soda ash produced by burning kali (Etymology 1).
etymonline
Kali
a name of Devi, the Hindu mother-goddess, in her black-skinned death-aspect, 1798, from Sanskrit kali, literally "the black one," fem. of kalah "blue-black, black," a word from a Dravidian language. Also taken as the fem. of kala "time" (as destroyer).
