different between mali vs maki

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæli/
• Hyphenation: ma?li

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi ???? (m?l?, “a gardener”), from Sanskrit ???? (m?l?, “a wreath-maker, a garland-maker; a florist; a gardener”), from ???? (m?l?, “wreath, garland; chaplet, crown”).

Noun

mali (plural malis)

2. (India, South Asia) A member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any native gardener. [from 18th c.]
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 190:

     And, as always, an Indian close outside the window, a mali in this case, picking up sounds.

   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 99:

     the malis who tended the gardens, no less than the owners themselves, vied to outdo each other in the fancifulness of their plantings, creating here a little patch of topiary and there an avenue of trees, trimmed in the French fashion […].

Alternative forms

• mallee

Etymology 2

From Xhosa imali, Zulu imali (“money”), both ultimately from Swahili mali.

Noun

mali (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) Money, cash. [from 19th c.]

References

Anagrams

• Alim, Liam, Lima, Mila, alim, lima, mail

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mali/

Noun

mali ? definite singular form of mal

1. mountain

Amis

Noun

mali

1. ball

References

• 2017, Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis (?????????) (in Mandarin Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples.

Bunun

Noun

mali

1. ball

Dyula

Alternative forms

• m?li

Noun

mali

1. hippopotamus

Finnish

Noun

mali

1. wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)

Declension

Synonyms

• koiruoho

Anagrams

• Ilma, Mali, Mila, ilma, lima

Italian

Noun

mali m

1. plural of male

Anagrams

• almi
• lami
• lima
• mail
• mila

Jingpho

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-l?j (“four”). Cognate with Burmese ??? (le:), S'gaw Karen ????? (lwee?), Sichuan Yi ? (ly), Tibetan ??? (bzhi), Sikkimese ?? (zhi).

Numeral

mali

1. four

Kambera

Alternative forms

• maling

Noun

mali

1. tonight
2. late afternoon

References

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 213

Kavalan

Noun

mali

1. ball

Latin

Noun

m?l?

1. inflection of m?lus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

Latvian

Verb

mali

1. 2nd person singular past indicative form of malt

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

mali

1. peanut

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mali

1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of mala and male

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.l?i/

Adjective

mali

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of ma?y

Sakizaya

Noun

mali

1. ball

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin male. Compare Italian male.

Adverb

mali

1. (Campidanese) badly

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

mali

1. inflection of mal:
   1. masculine nominative/vocative plural
   2. definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
   3. definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin malus. Compare Italian mali, male.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.l?/
• Hyphenation: mà?li

Adjective

mali m pl or f pl

1. masculine plural of malu; bad.
2. feminine plural of malu

Inflection

Noun

mali m (plural mali)

1. evil, harm

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mali]

Participle

mali

1. plural l-participle of ma?

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (m?l, “property”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mali (ma class, plural only)

1. wealth, riches
2. property

Usage notes

This word is morphologically plural but semantically singular. If a plural sense is required, it may be put in the n class.

Descendants

• ? Ila: madi
• ? Northern Ndebele: imali
• ? Rwanda-Rundi: imari
• ? Shona: mari
• ? Tswana: madi
• ? Xhosa: imali
• ? Zulu: imali

Tagalog

Adjective

malî

1. wrong

Anagrams

• lima

Turkish

Adjective

mali (comparative daha mali, superlative en mali)

1. financial, fiscal

Derived terms

Woiwurrung

Noun

mali

1. mallee

English

Etymology 1

From French [Term?], from Malagasy maky.

Noun

maki (plural maki)

1. A ring-tailed lemur.

Etymology 2

From Japanese ?? (maki), from ?? (maku, “to roll”).

Noun

maki (countable and uncountable, plural makis)

1. makizushi, a form of sushi that is rolled.

Anagrams

• Kami, Mika, kami

Finnish

Noun

maki

1. lemur

Declension

Anagrams

• Mika

French

Noun

maki m (plural makis)

1. maki

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?ki]
• Hyphenation: ma?ki
• Rhymes: -ki

Noun

maki (plural makik)

1. lemur

Usage notes

In children's books, the word makimajom is also used to indicate maki and majom (“monkey”) together.

Declension

Derived terms

• makimajom

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse maki, from Proto-Germanic *makô. Cognate with Danish mage, Swedish make, English match.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?c?/
• Rhymes: -a?c?

Noun

maki m (genitive singular maka, nominative plural makar)

1. equal, match

   Synonyms: jafningi, jafnoki

2. spouse

Declension

Derived terms

• makalaus (“matchless, unparalleled”)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.ki/
• Hyphenation: mà?ki

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French maki, from Malagasy maka.

Alternative forms

• machi

Noun

maki m (invariable)

1. black lemur (Eulemur macaco)
2. mongoose lemur (Lemur mongoz)

Further reading

• Eulemur macaco on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• Eulemur mongoz on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (maki) from ?? (maku, “to roll”).

Noun

maki m (invariable)

1. A piece of makizushi.

See also

• sushi

References

• maki in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Japanese

Romanization

maki

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latvian

Noun

maki m

1. nominative plural form of maks
2. vocative plural form of maks

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mak?i/

Noun

maki

1. nominative/accusative plural of mak

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mä.ki/

Verb

maki (Jawi spelling ?????)

1. to insult; to mock.

   Synonym(s): ejek, umpat, kutuk

Further reading

• “maki” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *masaki, from Proto-Oceanic *masakit, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakit.

Verb

maki

1. to afflict (of an illness)

Noun

maki

1. sick person
2. sore (injured, infected, inflamed, or diseased patch of skin)

Adverb

maki

1. invalid

Derived terms

• makimaki

Middle English

Verb

maki

1. Alternative form of maken

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *makô.

Noun

maki m

1. match

Declension

Related terms

• makr

Descendants

References

• maki in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse maki, from Proto-Germanic *makô.

Noun

maki m

1. associate, partner
2. match, equal
3. spouse

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: make

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.k?i/

Noun

maki m

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mak

Quechua

Noun

maki

1. hand

Declension

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• mayi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?ki]
• Hyphenation: ma?ki

Adjective

maki (comparative dehana maki, superlative tewr maki)

1. (grammar) feminine