kāla

kāla1

masculine time;

    1. a fixed point of time; a period of time; time of day; time of year; time (as past, present or future); grammatical time, the time of the action of a verb; tense.
    2. a particular time; an appointed time; esp. the time for a meal (morning and evening, or, for bhikkhus, morning); the morning
  1. the proper time for (gen., dat., inf., or yaṃ + opt.); the right time; a suitable time.

  2. time as lifetime; time as destroyer; death.

kāla2

mf(~ā & ī)n. m. & neuter

  1. (mfn.) black; dark.
  2. (m.) the dark half of the month, the dark fortnight (when the moon is on the wane)