# pali
## English
### Noun

pali
* plural of palus

### Anagrams

* ALIP, Lipa, Piła, lipa, pail, pial, pila

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpa.li]

### Adjective

pali m or f (masculine and feminine plural palis)
* (relational) of Pali

### Noun

pali m (uncountable)
* Pali

### References

* “pali” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “pali”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “pali” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “pali” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### Further reading

* pali on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{ca}$

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hiligaynon pali.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈliʔ/, [paˈliʔ]
* Hyphenation: pa‧li

### Noun

palî
* scar

## Hawaiian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.li/, [ˈpɐ.li]

### Noun

pali
* cliff, precipice

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From the proper noun Pali, from Pál (“Paul”) +‎ -i (diminutive suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɒli]
* Hyphenation: pa‧li
* Rhymes: -li

### Noun

pali (plural palik)
* (slang, used chiefly in its derivatives) mug, dupe, sucker (a person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person)
* (slang, dated) guy, bloke, fellow, chap
    Ki ez a pali? ― Who is this guy?

#### Derived terms

* bepaliz
* palimadár
* palira vesz

### References

* ↑ pali in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* pali in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.li/
* Rhymes: -ali
* Hyphenation: pà‧li

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit पालि (pāli, “line, series”, referring to the series of canonical texts).

#### Noun

pali m (uncountable)
* Pali (Indo-Aryan language)

#### Adjective

pali (invariable)
* (relational) Pali

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

pali m pl
* plural of palio

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

pali m pl
* plural of palo

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pali
* inflection of palare:
** second-person singular present indicative
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* Alpi, alpi, pila

## Javanese
### Romanization

pali
* Romanization of ꦥꦭꦶ

## Latin
### Noun

pālī
* inflection of pālus:
** nominative/vocative plural
** genitive singular

## Latvian
### Noun

pali m pl (1st declension)
* flood, freshet (flood), high water, inundation

#### Declension
## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpali/, [ˈpalʲi]

### Verb

pali
* third-person singular present of paliś

## Matigsalug Manobo
### Noun

palì
* (medicine) wound

## Old Javanese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.li/
* Rhymes: -li
* Hyphenation: pa‧li

### Etymology 1

wali, bali (“ritual requisites; ceremonial clothes; person in-charge of ritual or ceremony; tribute, offering”) +‎ pa-.

#### Root

pali
* ritual, ceremonies

##### Derived terms

* amamaleni
* apapali
* pali-pali
* pantĕn
* papali
* pinalen-palen
* pinalen-palenan
* pinapalenan

### Etymology 2

wali (“again; once more; to repeat”) +‎ pa-.

#### Root

pali
* repeatedly; insistence

##### Derived terms

* amali-mali
* pali-palin
* pali-palyan
* pinali-pali

### Further reading

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

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.li/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ali
* Syllabification: pa‧li
* Homophone: Pali

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पालि (pāli).

#### Noun

pali n (indeclinable)
* Pali (Middle Indo-Aryan language of north India, closely related to Sanskrit; the sacred language of the Buddhist scriptures)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

pali m inan
* genitive plural of pal

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pali
* third-person singular present of palić

### Further reading

* pali in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* język pali in PWN's encyclopedia

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pâːli/
* Hyphenation: pa‧li

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

pȃli m (Cyrillic spelling па̑ли)
* Pali (language)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pali (Cyrillic spelling пали)
* inflection of paliti:
** third-person singular present
** second-person singular imperative

#### Participle

pali (Cyrillic spelling пали)
* masculine plural active past participle of pȁsti

## Spanish
### Adjective

pali m or f (masculine and feminine plural palis)
* Pali

### Noun

pali m (uncountable)
* Pali

### Further reading

* “pali”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Noun

palî (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜒ)
* (anatomy) spleen
    Synonym: limpa

### Anagrams

* lipa, Lipa, pila, lapi, ilap

## Thao
### Noun

pali
* wing (of an animal)

## Unami
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpali]

### Adjective

pali
* other
* different

### Adverb

pali
* away
* elsewhere

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈpalɪ/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈpa(ː)li/

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle Welsh pali, from Old French palie.

#### Noun

pali m (plural palïau)
* brocade, satin
    Synonym: satin
* plush, velvet
    Synonym: melfed

##### Derived terms

* cath bali (“ermine, stoat”)

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* (literary) peli

#### Verb

pali
* (colloquial) second-person singular future of palu

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pali”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## Zotung Chin
### Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *liː, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj. Cognates include Mizo pa-li and Zou li.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.liː/

### Noun

pali
* four

### See also

* thum
* pango

### References

* 1 2 Kenneth VanBik (2009 October 20) The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus‎, page 559: “*lii [1022]”