خالی

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Ottoman Turkish

خالی

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قالی (qalı), from Persian خالی (xâli, carpet), itself from Old Armenian Կարին (Karin), a city which was famed for rugs.

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Noun

خالی (halı)

  1. carpet, a fabric used as a complete floor covering
    Synonym: كلیم (kilim)
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic خَالٍ (ḵālin, empty, void), a derivation from the verb خَلَا (ḵalā, to be empty, to be free).

Adjective

خالی (hali)

  1. empty, void, devoid of content, containing nothing or nobody
    Synonym: بوش (boş)
  2. vacant, unoccupied, not being used or not being inhabited
    Synonym: منحل (münhall)
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Persian

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? xālī
Dari reading? xālī
Iranian reading? xâli
Tajik reading? xoli

Etymology 1

From Arabic خَالٍ (ḵālin).

Adjective

Dari خالی
Iranian Persian
Tajik холӣ

خالی (xâli)

  1. empty, devoid
    Synonym: تهی (tohi)
    بشقاب خالیbošqâb-e xâliempty plate
    خالی از توهّمxâli az tavahhomdevoid of imagination; unimaginative
  2. empty, unoccupied
    این میز خالی شد. (at a restaurant)in miz xâli šod.This table is now available.
    جات خالی بود.jâ-t xâli bud.You were missed. (literally, “Your place was empty.”)
  3. (chiefly Dari) merely, only
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Etymology 2

From Old Armenian Կարին (Karin), a city which, spelled in Arabic قَالِيقَلَا (qālīqalā), was famed for rugs. Compare Arabic زَرْبِيَّة (zarbiyya, rug) supposedly being from the name of Azerbaijan.

Carpets

Noun

خالی (xâli)

  1. carpet
    Synonyms: فرش (farš), قالیچه (qâliče), تنبسه (tanbase), گلیم (gelim)
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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خالی (xâlī), from Arabic خَالٍ (ḵālin).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /xɑː.liː/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: خا‧لی

Adjective

خالی (xālī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़ाली)

  1. empty, vacant
    ایک خالی ڈبہek xālī ḍabbāan empty box
    وہ خالی ہاتھ لوٹ آیاvo xālī hāth lauṭ āyāhe returned empty-handed
  2. desolate, deserted, uninhabited
  3. merely, only
  4. devoid

References

  • خالی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • خالی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خالی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo

Noun

خالی (xālī)

  1. Dhu al-Qa'dah, the eleventh month of the Islamic calendar