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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

English

Alternative forms

• jaali

Etymology

Borrowed from Gujarati ???? (j???).

Noun

jali (plural jalis)

1. A stone screen, perforated or latticed, usually with a geometrical ornamental pattern, used in Indian and Islamic architecture.

Anagrams

• jail

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• jale

Etymology

From a Common Slavic *žal?. Compare Romanian jale.

Noun

jali (plural jeljuri)

1. sadness, grief, distress

Bandjalang

Alternative forms

• ?ulle

Noun

jali

1. tree
   • 1892, H. Livingstone, A short Grammar and Vocabulary of the Dialect spoken by the Minyu? People, in John Fraser (ed.) An Australian Language

     Burre—the top of a tree; with this compare ?ulle, ‘the barrel’ or ‘trunk’ of a tree; ... ?ulle is also a general name for a ‘tree.’ It often means ‘logs’ lying down, and ‘firewood’; e.g., kulga ?ulle wéb?ragai, ‘cut wood for the fire.’

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?jal?]

Verb

jali

1. animate masculine plural past participle of jmout

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin ill?, nominative masculine plural of ille.

Pronoun

jali m pl (masculine singular jal)

1. (third-person masculine plural pronoun) they

Related terms

• jal, jala
• jale (feminine plural)
• jai

See also

• ju
• te
• nu
• vu