كلي

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See also: کلی and گلی

Arabic

Etymology 1

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of كُلّ (kull) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy).

Adjective

كُلِّيّ (kulliyy) (feminine كُلِّيَّة (kulliyya), masculine plural كُلِّيُّونَ (kulliyyūna), feminine plural كُلِّيَّات (kulliyyāt))

  1. universal
Declension

Further reading

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “كلي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Etymology 2

Verb

كلي (form I)

  1. كُلِي (kulī) /ku.liː/: second-person feminine singular imperative of أَكَلَ (ʔakala)
  2. كَلِي (kalī) /ka.liː/: second-person feminine singular imperative of أَكِلَ (ʔakila)