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Side note: "Kala" means time, in Sanskrit. It also means someone who controls "death". Feminine form of it is "kali". I think it is only fitting to name a scheduler after time (or something that is controlled by it). ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81la_(time)



Sadly in Finnish it means "fish".


Luckily in Greek it means 'good'.


Well, it means "well". Like, "well done". Or, "good <things>", plural.


Whereas in Bengali it means "black", and in Swahili it's a kind of wild cat.


Kala also means performing art in Sanskrit (and Hindi and Bengali afaik)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalā

:)


depends on how you say it, if pronounced kla then it's art if pronounced kala then it means black. (Hindi)


If art it's pronounced more like kuh-LAA

If black it's kalaa

If time it's kaa-La


And in Swedish, it's the plural positive of kal, which means bald.


Interestingly, in Turkish it means "until".


It was taken from the Sanskrit meaning for "time". :)




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