अकाल akāl

Hindi is also shown in Latin characters, using an adapted form of ISO 15919 transliteration.

How to read the transliteration

This site uses transliteration based on ISO 15919, with a few adaptations to make reading easier: h is added after c, ś and ṣ, and i after the vowel r̥. These adaptations bring it closer to the Hunterian system used in India while retaining the distinctive marks of ISO 15919.

Adaptations used on this site
ISO 15919On this site
cch
śśh
ṣṣh
r̥r̥i

A few reading pointers:

  • ā, ī, ū: the line above the letter indicates a long vowel.
  • ṭ, ḍ, ṇ: the dot below distinguishes retroflex consonants from t, d, n.
  • A tilde above a vowel indicates nasalisation.

pa · adj.

Earlier definition

Definition

Out of time, untimely, unseasonable, immortal, (a title of God).

Usual translation

  1. immortal

Origin of the definition

AKÁL ਅਕਾਲ a. (S.) A prio. kál time; also death. Out of time, untimely, unseasonable, immortal, (a title of God)—Akál Buṇggá, s. m. (lit, pavilion of immortality.) A place of the 6th Gurú of the Sikhs at Amritsar opposite to the entrance of the Golden Temple, where the pauhal the Sikh rite of baptism is administered to converts—akál maut or mirt, s. f. An untimely death, unnatural death; sudden death:—akál mirtí, s. m. One who dies an untimely death:—akál múrat or purkh, s. m. The immortal one, (God.):—Akál purkh ko chhád, ke bhaje dev ko aur; janam janam bharmat phire lai ná sukh kí ihaur. One who worships another god save the immortal one, (i. e God), falls into transmigration of souls and finds no place of rest.

काल kāl (sanskrit)

Time, period, age, era, season.
Destiny, end, death, famine, calamity.
(mythology) Kāla, epith. of Yama-Mṛtyu, the god of Death, in his aspect of destructive Time.

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Avyakts

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Mamma

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Created
Friday 25 December 2020
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