different between governor vs wali

English

Alternative forms

• gouernour, gouvernor, gouvernour, governer, governour (all obsolete)
• guvnah, guvnuh (both informal)

Etymology

From Middle English governour, from Old French gouvreneur, from Latin gubernator, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kubern?t?s, “steersman, pilot, guide”), from ???????? (kuberná?, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”), of disputed origin. Doublet of gubernator.

Pronunciation

• (UK, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v(?)n?(?)/
• (US, rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v??n??/
• (US, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v?n?(?)/
• (US, rhotic, r-dissimilation) IPA^(key): /???v?n??/

Noun

governor (plural governors, feminine governess)

1. (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level division of a country.
   • 1999, Karen O'Connor, The essentials of American government: continuity and change, p 17

     Younger voters are more libertarian in political philosophy than older voters and are credited with the success of libertarian governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota

2. A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
3. A member of a decision-making for an organization or entity (including some public agencies) similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
   • Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, www.federalreserve.gov (November 6, 2009)

     The seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

4. (informal) Father.
5. (informal) Boss, employer.
6. (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
7. (dated) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
8. (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.

Synonyms

• (head of a province): viceroy (of large divisions of a kingdom or empire); proconsul (of Roman regions, historical); bailiff, seneschal, intendant (of French regions, historical); tao tai (obsolete), circuit intendant, intendant, daotai (of Chinese regions, historical); provost (obsolete); gubernator (now humorous)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

Middle English

Noun

governor

1. Alternative form of governour

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??li?/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (w?lin).

Noun

wali (plural walis)

1. A provincial governor in certain Islamic countries.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, page 130:

     You see the shrine was founded in memory of a great Wali, seer, holy man – but apparently a Mohammedan.

Alternative forms

• w?li
• vali (via Turkish)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Arabic ??????? (waliyy).

Noun

wali (plural walis)

1. (Islam) A saint or prophet.

Anagrams

• wail, wila

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay wali, from Arabic ??????? (w?l?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wali/
• Hyphenation: wa?li

Noun

wali (first-person possessive waliku, second-person possessive walimu, third-person possessive walinya)

1. custodian
2. guardian
3. plenipotentiary
4. wali (provincial governor)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “wali” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Kabyle

Verb

wali (intensive aorist ttwali, aorist iwali, preterite iwala, negative preterite iwala)

1. to see

   Synonym: ?er

2. to watch

3. to think, consider

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va.l?i/

Noun

wali m anim

1. genitive plural of wal

   Synonym: walów

Verb

wali

1. third-person singular present of wali?

Sakizaya

Noun

wali

1. east

Swahili

Etymology

From Malagasy vary (“uncooked rice”).

Pronunciation

Noun

wali (u class, no plural)

1. cooked rice

See also

• mchele (raw husked rice)
• mpunga (raw unhusked rice)

Noun

wali

1. plural of mwali

See also

• (Cereals) nafaka; shayiri (“barley”), mahindi (“maize”), ulezi (“millet”), oti (“oats”), mchele (“husked rice”) / mpunga (“unhusked rice”) / wali (“cooked rice”), ngano nyekundu (“rye”), mtama (“sorghum”), ngano (“wheat”) ^{(Category: sw:Grains) [edit]}

Weri

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?li/

Adjective

wali

1. long

References

• Maurice Boxwell, Weri Organised Phonology Data (1992), p. 2