अकलि

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَقل ('aql), from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql). Compare Old Punjabi ਅਕਲਿ (akali).

अकलि (akali)

1. understanding, comprehension, intelligence
   • c. 1420, Kabīr, Kabīr Vāṇī 8.0:

     गुर प्रसादि अकलि भाई तो कूं

     gura prasādi akali bhaī to kū̃

     By the grace of the Guru you have been endowed with reason

   • c. 1420, Kabīr, Kabīr Vāṇī 285.1:

     कहां थे तुम्ह क्यनं कीये,
     अकलि है सब नेस

     kahā̃ the tumha kyanã kīye,
     akali hai saba nesa

     Where are you [pl.] from, by whom created?
     All [your] understanding is destroyed.

• बेअकलि (beakali)

• Braj: अकल (akal)
• Hindustani: aql

  Hindi: अक़्ल

  Urdu: عَقْل ('aql)

• Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 512