wali

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑːliː/

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:

     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.

• wāli; vali (Turkish contexts)

• sanjakbey, mutasarrif, kaymakam, mudir

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.

• wail, wila

wali

1. Romanization of ᬯᬮᬶ

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

• → Yoruba: wòlíì

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

From Malay wali, from Arabic وَلِيّ (waliyy).

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).
   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 (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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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”).

• waluy

wali

1. again
2. once more

wali

1. to repeat

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

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

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

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

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From Malagasy vary (“uncooked rice”).

wali (u class, no plural)

1. cooked rice

• 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]}

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wali

1. plural of mwali

• IPA^(key): /wɑli/

wali

1. long

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