wali

See also: Appendix:Variations of "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^[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.

Alternative forms

• wāli; vali (Turkish contexts)

Coordinate terms

• sanjakbey, mutasarrif, kaymakam, mudir

Translations

provincial governor in certain Islamic countries

• French: wali (fr) m
• Hindi: वाली (hi) m (vālī)
• Indonesian: wali (id)
• Italian: valì m
• Kazakh: уәли (uäli)
• Malay: wali (ms)
• Russian: вали́ (ru) (valí)
• Spanish: valí (es) m
• Turkish: vali (tr)

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

Amis

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *waʀi (“day; sun”).

Noun

wali

1. east

   I wali ko cidal a masadak to dafak.

   The sun rises in the east in the morning.

Derived terms

• kawaliay
• makawaliay
• mipawali
• nipawalian
• nowalian
• pawali
• pipawalian
• sapipawali
• sawali
• sawalian

References

• 原住民族語言線上辭典 [Online Dictionary of Indigenous Languages]‎^[2] (in Mandarin), Taipei: Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation, 2014–2025

Balinese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Javanese wali (“again; once more”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bali (“reverse, turn around”), from Proto-Austronesian *baliw (“return”).

Verb

wali (Balinese script ᬯᬮᬶ)

1. (alus mider) to return

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Javanese wali, bali, from Sanskrit बलि (bali). Doublet of bali.

Noun

wali (Balinese script ᬯᬮᬶ)

1. ceremony
2. sacred dance

Further reading

• “bali”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali]

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwali/ [ˈwa.l̪ɪ]
• Hyphenation: wa‧li

Noun

wali (Badlit spelling ᜏᜎᜒ)

1. sermon

   Synonym: sangyaw

Hausa

Etymology 1

From Arabic وَالِي (wālī).

Pronunciation

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

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): [wə̀.lîː]

Noun

wàlî m (possessed form wàlîn)

1. alternative form of wàliyyī̀

Descendants

• → Yoruba: wòlíì

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwali/ [ˈwa.li]
• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: wa‧li

Etymology 1

From Malay wali, from Arabic وَلِيّ (waliyy).

Noun

wali (plural wali-wali or para wali)

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

   Synonym: orang suci

5. plenipotentiary

Derived terms

• kewalian
• memperwalikan
• mewalikan
• perwalian
• wali Allah
• wali baptis
• wali hakim
• wali kelas
• wali murid
• wali penguatan
• wali rumah
• wali sanga

Etymology 2

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

Noun

wali (plural wali-wali or para wali)

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

Derived terms

• wali kota
• wali nagari
• wali negara
• wali negeri

Etymology 3

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

Noun

wali (plural wali-wali)

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

Etymology 4

Noun

wali (plural wali-wali or para wali)

1. clipping of rajawali (“peregrine falcon”)

Further reading

• “wali”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of 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

• amalekakĕn
• amaleni
• awali
• awali-wali
• mawali
• pali
• tan amali
• tan awalia malih
• tan pabali
• tan pamali
• tan pawali
• tan pinali
• walyan
• winalekĕn
• winali
• winalyan

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

• pali
• pawali

• sĕkar wali
• wali kuwaṅ

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/, [wa.ˈli]

Noun

wali

1. east

Swahili

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Malagasy vary (“uncooked rice”).

Noun

wali class XI (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