# कल्प
## Hindi
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कल्प (kalpa).

### Pronunciation

* (Delhi) IPA: /kəlp/, [kɐlp]

### Noun

कल्प • (kalp) m
* rule, practice, age
* (mythology) an aeon, the period of a day of Brahmā, 1,000 yugas or 4,320,000,000 years, measuring the duration of the world
* an age, era

#### Derived terms

* कल्पवृक्ष (kalpavŕkṣ, “Kalpavriksha”)

## Sanskrit
### Alternative scripts

* কল্প (Assamese script)
* ᬓᬮ᭄ᬧ (Balinese script)
* কল্প (Bengali script)
* 𑰎𑰩𑰿𑰢 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀓𑀮𑁆𑀧 (Brahmi script)
* ကလ္ပ (Burmese script)
* કલ્પ (Gujarati script)
* ਕਲ੍ਪ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌕𑌲𑍍𑌪 (Grantha script)
* ꦏꦭ꧀ꦥ (Javanese script)
* 𑂍𑂪𑂹𑂣 (Kaithi script)
* ಕಲ್ಪ (Kannada script)
* កល្ប (Khmer script)
* ກລ຺ປ (Lao script)
* കല്പ (Malayalam script)
* ᡬᠠᠯᢒᠠ (Manchu script)
* 𑘎𑘩𑘿𑘢 (Modi script)
* ᢉᠠᠯᢒᠠ (Mongolian script)
* 𑦮𑧉𑧠𑧂 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐎𑐮𑑂𑐥 (Newa script)
* କଲ୍ପ (Odia script)
* ꢒꢭ꣄ꢦ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆑𑆬𑇀𑆥 (Sharada script)
* 𑖎𑖩𑖿𑖢 (Siddham script)
* කල‍්ප (Sinhalese script)
* 𑩜𑩽 𑪙𑩰 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚊𑚥𑚶𑚞 (Takri script)
* கல்ப (Tamil script)
* కల్ప (Telugu script)
* กลฺป (Thai script)
* ཀ་ལྤ (Tibetan script)
* 𑒏𑒪𑓂𑒣 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨋𑨬𑩇𑨞 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology

From कॢप् (kḷp) +‎ -अ (-a, nominalizing suffix).

### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /kɐ́l.pɐ/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /ˈkɐl̪.pɐ/

### Adjective

कल्प • (kálpa) stem
* practicable, feasible, possible
* proper, fit, able, competent, equal to

#### Declension
### Noun

कल्प • (kálpa) stem, n
* a kind of intoxicating liquor

#### Declension
### Noun

कल्प • (kálpa) stem, m
* a sacred precept, law, rule, ordinance, manner of acting, proceeding, practice (especially that prescribed by the Vedas)
    Synonyms: विधि (vidhi), न्याय (nyāya)
* prathamaḥ kalpaḥ, a rule to be observed before any other rule, first duty
* the most complete of the six Vedangas (that which prescribes the ritual and gives rules for ceremonial or sacrificial acts)
* one of two cases, one side of an argument, an alternative
    Synonyms: पक्ष (pakṣa), विकल्प (vikalpa)
* investigation, research commentator or commentary on
* resolve, determination
* (medicine) treatment of the sick, manner of curing
* the art of preparing medicine, pharmacy
* the doctrine of poisons and antidotes
* having the manner or form of anything, similar to, resembling, like but with a degree of inferiority, almost
* a fabulous period of time (a day of Brahma or one thousand yugas, a period of four thousand, three hundred and twenty millions of years of mortals, measuring the duration of the world; a month of brahmā is supposed to contain thirty such kalpas. According to the Mahabharata, twelve months of brahmā constitute his year, and one hundred such years his lifetime; fifty years of brahmā's are supposed to have elapsed, and we are now in the śvetavārāha kalpa of the fifty-first; at the end of a kalpa the world is annihilated; hence kalpa is said to be equal to kalpānta below; with Buddhists the kalpas are not of equal duration)
* name of mantras which contain a form of kḷp
* a kind of dance
* name of the first astrological mansion
* name of a son of dhruva and bhrami
* the tree of paradise
    Synonym: तरु (taru)
* a particular abode of deities

#### Descendants

* Gandhari: 𐨐𐨤𐨂 (kapu), 𐨐𐨤 (kapa)
* Magadhi Prakrit:
** Assamese: কাপ (kap)
** Bengali: কল্প (kolpo)
* Pali: kappa
** → Burmese: ကပ် (kap)
** → Thai: กัป (gàp)
* → English: kalpa
* → Sogdian: 𐼸𐼹𐼾𐼰 (klpʾ /⁠*kalpa⁠/), 𐼋𐼘𐼔𐼁 (krpʾ /⁠*karpa, kalpa⁠/)
* → Manchu: ᡬᠠᠯᠠᠪ (g'alab)
* → Middle Chinese: 劫 (MC kjaep) (possibly indirectly)
* → Thai: กัลป์
* → Tibetan: བསྐལ་པ (bskal pa)
* → Tocharian A: kalp
* → Tocharian B: kālp

### References

* Monier Williams (1899) “कल्प”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0262.