wali

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑːliː/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic وَالٍ (wālin).

Noun

wali (plural walis)

1. A provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.
   • 2007 November 2, Jane Perlez, “Militants Draw New Front Line Inside Pakistan”, in New York Times‎:

     For much of the last century, the mountainous region of Swat was ruled as a princely kingdom where a benign autocrat, the wali, bestowed schools for girls, health care for everyone and the chance to get a degree abroad for the talented.

Alternative forms

• wāli; vali (Turkish contexts)

Coordinate terms

• sanjakbey, mutasarrif, kaymakam, mudir

Translations

Etymology 2

From Arabic وَلِيّ (waliyy).

Noun

wali (plural walis)

1. (Islam) A saint or prophet.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 130:

     You see the shrine was founded in memory of a great Wali, seer, holy man – but apparently a Mohammedan.

Anagrams

• wail, wila

Balinese

Romanization

wali

1. Romanization of ᬯᬮᬶ

Hausa

Etymology 1

From Arabic وَالِي (wālī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wáː.líː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Noun

wālī m (possessed form wālin)

1. vizier (a traditional title)

Etymology 2

See wàliyyī̀.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wà.lîː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Noun

wàlî m (possessed form wàlîn)

1. Alternative form of wàliyyī̀

Descendants

• → Yoruba: wòlíì

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wali/
• Hyphenation: wa‧li

Etymology 1

From Malay wali, from Arabic وَلِيّ (waliyy).

Noun

wali (first-person possessive waliku, second-person possessive walimu, third-person possessive walinya)

1. custodian
2. guardian
   1. (law, Indonesia) A person or institution legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
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3. (Islam) A saint.

   Synonym: orang suci

4. plenipotentiary(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Arabic وَالِي (wālī), of وَالٍ (wālin).

Noun

wali (first-person possessive waliku, second-person possessive walimu, third-person possessive walinya)

1. A chief (of a territory)
   1. A provincial governor in certain Islamic countries; wali.

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Old Javanese wali (“ritual requisites; ceremonial clothes”), bali (“tribute, offering”), from Sanskrit बलि (bali).

Noun

wali (first-person possessive waliku, second-person possessive walimu, third-person possessive walinya)

1. (obsolete) yellow drapery for ceremonial use.
2. small, sharp carving knife.

Etymology 4

Noun

wali (first-person possessive waliku, second-person possessive walimu, third-person possessive walinya)

1. clipping of rajawali (“peregrine falcon”).

Further reading

• “wali” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

wali

1. Romanization of ꦮꦭꦶ

Kabyle

Verb

wali (intensive aorist ttwali, aorist iwali, preterite iwala, negative preterite iwala)

1. to see

   Synonym: ẓer

2. to watch

   Tettwalim tiliẓri ?

   Are you guys watching television?

3. to think, consider

Kapampangan

Noun

wáli

1. Súlat Wáwâ spelling of uali

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa.li/
• Rhymes: -li
• Hyphenation: wa‧li

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bali (“reverse, turn around”), from Proto-Austronesian *baliw (“return”).

Alternative forms

• waluy

Adverb

wali

1. again
2. once more

Verb

wali

1. to repeat

Derived terms

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦮꦭꦶ (wali, “repeatedly”) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬯᬮᬶ (bali)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit बलि (bali). Doublet of bali (“tribute, offering”).

Noun

wali

1. ritual requisites
2. ceremonial clothes
3. person in-charge of ritual or ceremony

Derived terms

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦮꦭꦶ (wali, “ceremonial yellow drapery; small knife”) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬯᬮᬶ (wali)
• >? Balinese: ᬩᭂᬮᬶ (beli)

Etymology 3

Noun

wali

1. Alternative spelling of wallī (“creeper”)

Further reading

• "wali" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.li/
• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: wa‧li

Noun

wali m animal

1. genitive plural of wal

   Synonym: walów

Verb

wali

1. third-person singular present of walić

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa.ˈli/,

Noun

wali

1. east

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Etymology 1

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:

wali

Wikipedia ^sw

From Malagasy vary (“uncooked rice”).

Noun

wali (u class, no plural)

1. cooked rice

See also

• mchele (raw husked rice)
• mpunga (raw unhusked rice)
• (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]}

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

wali

1. plural of mwali

Weri

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɑli/

Adjective

wali

1. long

References

• Maurice Boxwell, Weri Organised Phonology Data (1992), p. 2