Kala Explained

Kala or Kalah may refer to:

Sanskrit words

• Kāla, meaning 'time' or 'black', and in various Indian religions the personification of time as a deity
  • an epithet of the Hindu god Yama
  • an epithet of the Hindu god Shiva
• Kalā, meaning 'performing arts'

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Kala (comics), in Marvel comics
• Kala (Tarzan), adoptive mother of Tarzan
• Kala, in the animation The Jungle Book
• Kala, in the 1987 TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Kala, in the TV series Sense8
• King Kala, in the comic strip Flash Gordon
  • General Kala, in the 1980 film Flash Gordon
• Kala Shetty, villain portrayed by Rami Reddy in the 1998 Indian film Gunda

Films

• Kala (2021 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film
• , a 2007 Indonesian film

Music

• Kala (album), by M.I.A., 2007
  • Kala Tour, the tour associated with the album
• Kala, a 2015 album by Trevor Hall
• Kala (band), a Filipino band

Places

• Kala e Dodës, Albania
• El Kala, Algeria
  • El Kala District
  • El Kala National Park
• Kala, Třebotov, Czech Republic
• Kala, Behshahr, Iran
• Kalah, Hormozgan, Iran
• Kala, Markazi, Iran
• Kala, Nur, Iran
• Kala, Semnan, Iran
• Kala, Kyrgyzstan
• Kala/Balge, Nigeria
• Kala, Sarpsborg, Norway
• Kala Board, in Karachi, Pakistan
• Kala, Punjab, Pakistan
• Kala, Tanzania

Other uses

• Kala (name), a given name and surname, including a list of people with the name
  • Kala (choreographer) (born 1971), Indian choreographer
• KALA (FM), a radio station (88.5 FM) licensed to Davenport, Iowa, United States
• Hawaiian: Kālā, the spelling in modern orthography of the native name for the Hawaiian dollar
• Kala, Hawaiian name for the bluespine unicornfish

See also

• Kaala (disambiguation)
• Kaal (disambiguation)
• Kaala (disambiguation)
• Kaalam (disambiguation)
• Kaalpurush (disambiguation)
• Kalah, a game in the mancala family
• Kalam (disambiguation)
• Kahla (disambiguation)
• Kalaa, Algeria
• Kalas (disambiguation)
• Kalla (disambiguation)
• Cala (disambiguation)
• Qala (disambiguation) or qal'a, the Arabic word for fortress or castle
• Qalat (disambiguation), places whose names contain the words Qalat, Qelat, Kalat, Kalaat, Kalut, or Kelat
• Qila (disambiguation), a Persian (Urdu, Hindi) variant of Arabic qal'a