different between wali vs pali

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

Noun

pali

1. plural of palus

Anagrams

• ALIP, lipa, pail, pial, pila

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pa.li/

Adjective

pali (masculine and feminine plural palis)

1. Of or pertaining to Pali.

Noun

pali m (uncountable)

1. Pali

Chavacano

Etymology

From Hiligaynon pali.

Noun

palî

1. scar

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.li/, [?p?li]

Noun

pali

1. cliff, precipice

Hungarian

Etymology

From the proper noun Pali, from Pál (“Paul”) +? -i (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?li]
• Hyphenation: pa?li
• Rhymes: -li

Noun

pali (plural palik)

1. (slang, used chiefly in its derivatives) mug, dupe, sucker (a person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person)
2. (slang, dated) guy, bloke, fellow, chap

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• pali in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.li/
• Hyphenation: pà?li

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit ???? (p?li, “line, series”, referring to the series of canonical texts).

Noun

pali m (uncountable)

1. Pali (Indo-Aryan language)

Adjective

pali (invariable)

1. (relational) Pali

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

palî m pl

1. plural of palio

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

pali m pl

1. plural of palo

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pali

1. second-person singular present indicative of palare
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of palare
3. second-person singular present subjunctive of palare
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of palare
5. third-person singular imperative of palare

Anagrams

• alpi, Alpi
• pila

Latin

Noun

p?l?

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

Latvian

Noun

pali m pl (1st declension)

1. flood, freshet (flood), high water, inundation

Declension

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pali/, [?pal?i]

Verb

pali

1. third-person singular present of pali?

Matigsalug Manobo

Noun

palì

1. (medicine) wound

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.l?i/

Etymology 1

Noun

pali n (indeclinable)

1. Pali (language)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

pali

1. genitive plural of pal

Verb

pali

1. third-person singular present of pali?

Further reading

• pali in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pâ?li/
• Hyphenation: pa?li

Noun

p?li m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. Pali (language)

Verb

pali (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of paliti:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Tagalog

Noun

palî

1. (anatomy) spleen

Synonyms

• limpa

Anagrams

• ilap, lapi, lipa, pila

Thao

Noun

pali

1. wing (of an animal)

Unami

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pali]

Adjective

pali

1. other
2. different

Adverb

pali

1. away
2. elsewhere