Kalinga

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Philippines, place/kɐ.lɪˈŋa/Philippines/kɐ.lɪŋˈɡa/

proper noun

A province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tabuk. The province was created from the partitioning of Kalinga-Apayao

“Meronyms: Balbalan, Lubuagan, Pasil, Pinukpuk, Rizal, Tabuk, Tanudan, Tinglayan — city and municipalities of Kalinga”

OriginSanskrit कलिङ्ग →
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Meanings

Kalinga1

proper noun
  1. A province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tabuk. The province was created from the partitioning of Kalinga-Apayao

    Meronyms: Balbalan, Lubuagan, Pasil, Pinukpuk, Rizal, Tabuk, Tanudan, Tinglayan — city and municipalities of Kalinga

  2. historicalA former Spanish commandancy in the Philippines.
  3. historicalA former subprovince of the former province of Lepanto-Bontoc in northern Philippines, created from the commandancy.
  4. A dialect continuum of Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the Kalinga people.
nounKalinga pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyAn indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines.

Kalinga2

proper noun
  1. A historical region in modern Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, in eastern India.

    The ancient Kalinga, the fame of which, at one time, spread over the entire South Asia lies now partly in Andhra and partly in Orissa.

    1964, Nabin Kumar Sahu, Utkal University History Of Orissa, volume 1, The Utkal University, page 3
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    The name Kalinga is applied more distinctively to the delta of the Godávarí, while the delta of the Mahánadí, on the north, gradually stands out as a separate country.

    1872, William Wilson Hunter, Orissa: Or the Vicissitudes of an Indian Province Under Native and British Rule, Smith, Elder and Company, page 171

    He was an unpopular upstart, but, as far as can be gathered from the few references to him, he was an energetic and ambitious king, who succeeded in gaining control of Kaliṅga (the modern Orissā and the northern coastal strip of Āndhra Pradesh), and perhaps of other parts of the Deccan.

    1967, A. L. Basham, The Wonder That Was India, Taplinger Publishing Company, page 49

    Chodaganga Dev defeated Karna Dev, the Somavansi king and allowed him to continue as a tributary ruler. Kalinga and Utkal were amalgamated into one kingdom.

    2008, Orissa: An Encyclopaedia of Events, 2 edition, Sankalpa Publications, page 35
  2. A mythological kingdom in eastern South Asia, described in the Mahabharata.

Kalinga3

proper noun
  1. A northern suburb of Brisbane in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Origin

Kalinga · proper noun

  1. Sanskritकलिङ्ग
  2. EnglishKalinga

Borrowed from Sanskrit कलिङ्ग (kaliṅga).

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Kalinga · proper noun

  1. Yagarangalinnga
  2. EnglishKalinga

Probably borrowed from Yagara ngalinnga.

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APA

Kalinga. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kalinga

MLA

“Kalinga.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kalinga. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kalinga,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kalinga.

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