different between tali vs mali

English

Noun

tali

1. plural of talus

Anagrams

• ATLI, Ital, Ital., LIAT, LITA, Lita, TILA, Tail, Tila, alit, alti, ital, ital., lait, tail

Amis

Noun

tali

1. taro

Brunei Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tali, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talih, from Proto-Austronesian *CaliS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tali/
• Hyphenation: ta?li

Noun

tali

1. rope

Synonyms

• (thick, braided strings) kalat

Catalan

Verb

tali

1. third-person singular imperative form of talar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive form of talar
3. first-person singular present subjunctive form of talar

Chamorro

Etymology

From Pre-Chamorro *tali, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talih, from Proto-Austronesian *CaliS. Compare Paiwan tsalis, Kulon-Pazeh saris, Malay tali, Ilocano tali, Ma'anyan tadi, Malagasy tady, Tetum tali, Yapese tael, Pohnpeian sahl, Fijian dali, Maori tari.

Noun

tali

1. rope (thick, strong string)

Choctaw

Alternative forms

• tvli

Noun

tali (dictionary form t?li)

1. rock, stone
2. iron
3. metal
4. mineral

Finnish

(index ta)

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish talg (“tallow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?li/, [?t??li]
• Rhymes: -?li
• Syllabification: ta?li

Noun

tali

1. suet (fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys)
2. tallow (hard animal fat obtained from suet)
3. sebum (thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin)

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Ilta, ilta, lait, lati, liat, tila

Hungarian

Etymology

Shortened from találkozó or találkozás (“meeting”) +? -i (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?li]
• Hyphenation: ta?li
• Rhymes: -li

Noun

tali (plural talik)

1. (slang) meeting

   Synonyms: találkozás, találkozó

Declension

Derived terms

Icelandic

Verb

tali

1. inflection of tala:
   1. first-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person present subjunctive

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tali, from Proto-Malayic *tali, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talih, from Proto-Austronesian *CaliS.

Noun

tali (first-person possessive taliku, second-person possessive talimu, third-person possessive talinya)

1. rope (thick, strong string)
2. (figuratively) kinship, blood ties

Derived terms

Ingrian

Etymology 1

Related to Finnish tai, possibly influenced by eli.

Pronunciation

• (Hevaha, Soikkola) IPA^(key): /?t?li/
• Hyphenation: ta?li

Conjunction

tali

1. or

Synonyms

• eli, vai

Etymology 2

From Swedish talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz, possibly via Finnish tali.

Noun

tali (genitive talin, partitive talliia)

1. tallow

Declension

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 569
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[2], page 169

Italian

Adjective

tali

1. plural of tale

Noun

tali m

1. plural of talo

Anagrams

• alti, lati

Latin

Etymology 1

See t?lus.

Noun

t?l?

1. nominative plural of t?lus
2. genitive singular of t?lus
3. vocative plural of t?lus

Etymology 2

See t?lis.

Adjective

t?l?

1. dative singular of t?lis
2. ablative singular of t?lis

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

tali

1. rope

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tali (compare Indonesian tali), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talih (compare Chamorro tali, Fijian dali, Tagalog tali), from Proto-Austronesian *CaliS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tali/
• Rhymes: -ali, -li, -i

Noun

tali (Jawi spelling ?????, plural tali-tali, informal 1st possessive taliku, impolite 2nd possessive talimu, 3rd possessive talinya)

1. rope (thick, strong string)

Descendants

• Indonesian: tali

Further reading

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

Sakizaya

Noun

tali

1. taro

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talih, from Proto-Austronesian *CaliS. Compare Paiwan tsalis, Kulon-Pazeh saris, Malay tali, Ilocano tali, Chamorro tali, Ma'anyan tadi, Malagasy tady, Tetum tali, Yapese tael, Pohnpeian sahl, Fijian dali, Maori tari.

Noun

tali

1. rope

Unami

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *taši (“there, in such a place”).

Particle

tali

1. there, place

References

• Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) , “tali”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

Vietnamese

Etymology

Ultimately from New Latin thallium, with the suffix -um removed as with most chemical elements.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [ta??? li??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [ta??? l?j??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ta??? l?j??]
• Phonetic: ta li

Noun

tali

1. thallium

Welsh

Alternative forms

• teli (literary)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?tali/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ta?li/, /?tali/

Verb

tali

1. (colloquial) second-person singular future of talu

Mutation

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