feminine
fraction
Kalā [Vedic kalā °squel, to Lat scalpo, Greek σκάλλω, Old High German scolla, scilling, scala. Dhātup (no 613) explains kala by "saṅkhyāne."] 1. a small fraction of a whole, generally the 16th part; the 16th part of the moon's disk; often the 16th part again subdivided into 16 parts and so on: one infinitesimal part (see Vv-a 103; Dhp-a II 63), in this sense in the expression kalaṃ nāgghati soḷasiṃ "not worth an infinitesimal portion of" = very much inferior to S I 19; III 156 = V 44 = It 20; A I 166, 213; IV 252; Ud 11; Dhp 70; Vv 43 7 ; Dhp-a II 63 (= koṭṭhāsa) Dhp-a IV 74. 2. an art, a trick (literal part, turn) Ja I 163. — kalaṃ upeti to be divided or separated Miln 106; Dhp-a I 119; see sakala. — In compound with bhū as kalī-bhavati to be divided, broken up Ja I 467 (= bhijjati). Cf. vikala.
a small part of anything, especially a sixteenth part (in commentaries often explained as at least the sixteenth part of a sixteenth part)
【陰】 全部的一小部分，藝術。
(fem, fem) fraction; small part fraction of a whole, art Construction: √kal + ā