different between mali vs vali

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

From Turkish vali, from Arabic ?????? (w?lin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v???l??/

Noun

vali (plural valis)

1. Alternative form of wali

Anagrams

• LAIV, Vail, Vial, Vila, vail, vial, vila

Aiwoo

Verb

vali

1. to beat (to make noise; e.g. a drum)

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vale

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem. Compare Romanian vale.

Noun

vali f (plural vãljuri, definite articulation valea)

1. valley

Synonyms

• clincã, trap

Derived terms

• vãlicã

Ido

Noun

vali

1. plural of valo

Italian

Verb

vali

1. second-person singular present indicative of valere
2. second-person singular imperative of valere

Anagrams

• lavi

Latvian

Noun

vali m

1. vocative singular form of valis
2. accusative singular form of valis
3. instrumental singular form of valis

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

[vali] n

1. plural definite of val

Portuguese

Verb

vali

1. first-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of valer

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (w?l?).

Noun

vali (definite accusative valiyi, plural valiler)

1. governor

Declension