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Borrowed from Arabic وَالٍ (wālin).

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[1]:

      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.

From Arabic وَلِيّ (waliyy).

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.

wali

  1. Romanization of ᬯᬮᬶ
  • IPA(key): /ˈwali/ [ˈwa.l̪ɪ]
  • Hyphenation: wa‧li

wali (Badlit spelling ᜏᜎᜒ)

  1. sermon
    Synonym: sangyaw

From Arabic وَالِي (wālī).

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

wālī m (possessed form wālin)

  1. vizier (a traditional title)

See wàliyyī̀.

  • IPA(key): /wà.lîː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [wə̀.lîː]

wàlî m (possessed form wàlîn)

  1. Alternative form of wàliyyī̀
  • IPA(key): /wali/
  • Hyphenation: wa‧li

From Malay wali, from Arabic وَلِيّ (waliyy).

wali (plural wali-wali)

  1. custodian
  2. guardian
    1. (law, Indonesia) A person or institution legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
    2. (Islam) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
  3. (Islam) A saint.
    Synonym: orang suci
  4. plenipotentiary(Can we verify(+) this sense?)

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

wali (plural wali-wali)

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

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

wali (plural wali-wali)

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

wali (plural wali-wali)

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

wali

  1. Romanization of ꦮꦭꦶ

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

wáli

  1. Súlat Wáwâ spelling of uali
  • IPA(key): /wa.li/
  • Rhymes: -li
  • Hyphenation: wa‧li

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

wali

  1. again
  2. once more

wali

  1. to repeat

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

wali

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

wali

  1. Alternative spelling of wallī (“creeper”)
  • "wali" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
  • IPA(key): /ˈva.li/
  • Rhymes: -ali
  • Syllabification: wa‧li

wali m animal

  1. genitive plural of wal
    Synonym: walów

wali

  1. third-person singular present of walić
  • IPA(key): /wa.ˈli/, [wa.ˈli]

wali

  1. east

From Malagasy vary (“uncooked rice”).

wali class XI (no plural)

  1. cooked rice

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wali

  1. plural of mwali

wali

  1. long