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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

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (yal?), from Greek ?????? (gialós).

Noun

yali (plural yalis)

1. A type of house, particularly found on the Bosporus.

Anagrams

• Ilya

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (yal?), from Greek ?????? (gialós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja.li/

Noun

yali m (plural yalis)

1. yali

Manchu

Romanization

yali

1. Romanization of ???? (yali)

Ngarrindjeri

Noun

a small young kangaroo, a joey