Kala

Kala or Kalah may refer to:

Religion

Hinduism

• Kāla, a Sanskrit word meaning time
• Kāla, a Hindu deity of time, destiny, death and destruction closely related to Yama and Shiva
• Kālakūta, the deadly Halahala poison that resides in Shiva's neck and was created when the cosmic ocean was churned by the Devas and Asuras in search of the devine nectar according to Hindu mythology
• Kala Bhairava, a Hindu and Buddhist deity who is known to be a powerful manifestation of Shiva associated with annihilation
• Kalā, a Sanskrit word meaning performing arts
• Kala Bo, a Hindu consort goddess of Ganesha
• Batara Kala, a god in Javanese and Balinese mythology
• Kala Ratri, a Hindu goddess and a fearsome form of Mahadevi

Jainism

• One of the six fundamental principles

Geography

Kala can be an alternate spelling of qal'a ("fortress") in Persian, Turkish, etc.

Albania

• Kala e Dodës, a municipality in Dibër County

Algeria

• El Kala District, district
  • El Kala, the district seat
  • El Kala National Park, national park in El Kala District

Georgia

• Narikala, ancient fortress overlooking Tbilisi

Iran

• Kala, Behshahr, Mazandaran Province
• Kalah, Hormozgan, village in Hormozgan Province
• Kala, Markazi, village
• Kala, Nur, Mazandaran Province
• Kala, Semnan, village

Kyrgyzstan

• Kala, Kyrgyzstan, village

Nigeria

• Kala, a town in Kala/Balge Local Government Area of Borno State

Norway

• Kala, Sarpsborg, small residential place

Pakistan

• Kala Board, neighbourhood in Karachi, Sindh
• Kala Gujran, town in Punjab
• Kala, Punjab, district

Tanzania

• Kala, Tanzania, port in the town of Kasanga

Popular culture

• Kala (2021 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Rohith V. S.
• Dead Time: Kala, a 2007 Indonesian film also known as Kala
• Kalah, a game in the mancala family that is alternatively spelled Kala

Characters

• Kala (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Kala (Tarzan), a character in the Tarzan novels
• Kala, a black panther character in the animated Jungle Book
• Kala, a character in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series
• Kala, a character in Netflix original series Sense8
• King Kala, a character in Flash Gordon
  • General Kala, in the 1980 film

Music

• Kala (album), a 2007 album by British musical artist M.I.A.
  • Kala Tour, the tour associated with the album
• Kala (band), a Filipino band
• KALA, a 2015 album by singer/songwriter Trevor Hall

Other uses

• Kala (choreographer), Indian choreographer
• KALA (FM), a radio station (88.5 FM) licensed to Davenport, Iowa, United States
• KALA (AM), a defunct radio station (1400 AM) licensed to Sitka, Alaska, United States
• Kala (name) a given name and surname (including a list of people with the name)
• Kālā, the spelling in modern orthography of the native name for the Hawaiian dollar
• The Hawaiian name for the bluespine unicornfish

See also

• Kaala (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