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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

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