Kama vs. Sickle — What's the Difference?

Kama (Sanskrit: काम; IAST: kāma; Tamil: காமம்) means "desire, wish, longing" in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain literature. Kama often connotes sensual pleasure, sexual desire, and longing both in religious and secular Hindu and Buddhist literature, as well as contemporary Indian literature, but the concept more broadly refers to any desire, wish, passion, longing, pleasure of the senses, desire for, longing to and after, the aesthetic enjoyment of life, affection, or love, enjoyment of love is particularly with or without enjoyment of sexual, sensual and erotic desire, and may be without sexual connotations.Kama is one of the four goals of human life and is also contemplated as one of the primary needs to fulfill during the stages of life according to the Hindu tradition.

A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting, or reaping, grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock, either freshly cut or dried as hay. Falx was a synonym but was later used to mean any of a number of tools that had a curved blade that was sharp on the inside edge such as a scythe.

The god of love.

A short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting corn, lopping, or trimming.

A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

An implement having a crescent-shaped blade attached to a short handle, used for cutting grain or tall grass.

(India) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.

The cutting mechanism of a reaper or mower.

The Hindu Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.

To cut with a sickle.

Desire; animal passion;

To deform (a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.

God of love and erotic desire; opposite of Mara

To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.

Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped

(agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.

To cut with a sickle.

(transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.

(intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.

Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.

A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.

A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.

An edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle