mali

mali

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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi माली (mālī, “gardener”), from Sanskrit माली (mālī, “wreath-maker, garland-maker; florist; gardener”), मालिन् (mālin, “florist; gardener”), from माला (mālā, “wreath, garland; chaplet, crown”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːli/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑli/, /ˈmæ-/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːli, -æli
  • Hyphenation: ma‧li

Noun

mali (plural malis)

  2. (India, South Asia) A member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener. [from mid 18th c.]
Alternative forms
  • mallee
  • molly
  • malley
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Xhosa imali, Zulu imali (“money”), both ultimately from Swahili mali (“riches, wealth; property”), from Arabic مَال (māl, “money; affluence, wealth; possessions, property”). Some dictionaries suggest an origin in English money instead, making no attempt to account for the distribution of the loanword nor the proposed shift from /n/ to /l/, both of which make this unlikely.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːli/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑli/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːli
  • Hyphenation: ma‧li

Noun

mali (uncountable)

  1. (South Africa) Money, cash. [from mid 19th c.]
Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin malī, a plural form of malus (“adverse, unfavourable, unfortunate, unlucky; destructive, hurtful; bad, evil”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“erroneous, false; bad, evil”)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪlaɪ/, /ˈmɑː-/, /ˈmæ-/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪlaɪ/, /ˈmæ-/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧li

Noun

mali

  1. plural of malus

References

See also

  • hom mali rice (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

  • Alim, Liam, Lima, Mila, alim, lima, mail

Acehnese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mali/

Adjective

mali

  1. draw; something that’s equal or in balance of each other.

Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmali/
  • Rhymes: -ali

Noun

mali

  1. inflection of mal:
    1. definite nominative singular
    2. indefinite dative/ablative singular

Amis

Noun

mali

  1. ball

References

  • “Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎[1] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

Bunun

Noun

mali

  1. ball

Dyirbal

Adjective

mali

  1. wonderful, fantastic

Dyula

Alternative forms

  • mɛli

Noun

mali

  1. hippopotamus

Finnish

Etymology

From Swedish malört.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑli/, [ˈmɑ̝li]
  • Rhymes: -ɑli
  • Hyphenation(key): ma‧li

Noun

mali

  1. wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)

Declension

Synonyms

  • koiruoho

Further reading

  • “mali”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • Ilma, Mila, ilma, lima

French

Noun

mali m (uncountable)

  1. Mali (language)

References

  • “mali”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈma.li/
  • Rhymes: -ali
  • Hyphenation: mà‧li

Noun

mali m

  1. plural of male

Anagrams

  • almi, lima, mail, mila

Jingpho

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj (“four”). Cognate with Burmese လေး (le:), S'gaw Karen လွံၢ် (lwee̱), Nuosu ꇖ (ly), Tibetan བཞི (bzhi), Sikkimese ཞི (zhi).

Numeral

mali

  1. four

Kambera

Alternative forms

  • maling

Noun

mali

  1. tonight
  2. late afternoon

References

  • Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213

Kavalan

Noun

mali

  1. ball

Latin

Adjective

malī

  1. inflection of malus:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive singular

Noun

mālī

  1. inflection of mālus:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive singular

Latvian

Verb

mali

  1. second-person singular past indicative of malt

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

mali

  1. peanut

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²mɑː.lɪ/, /²mɑː.ɽɪ/

Participle

mali

  1. (non-standard since 2012) feminine singular of malen
  2. (non-standard since 2012) neuter singular of malen

Verb

mali

  1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of mala

Anagrams

  • lami, lima, mila

Polish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ali
  • Syllabification: ma‧li
  • Homophone: Mali

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

mali

  1. (Near Masovian, often repeated) used to call pigs
    Synonym: maciu
    Coordinate terms: a ksyk, a ciu

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

mali

  1. virile nominative/vocative plural of mały

Further reading

  • Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “mali”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 372

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.ˈli/, [ma.ˈli]

Noun

mali

  1. ball

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin male. Compare Italian male.

Adverb

mali

  1. (Campidanese) badly

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

mali

  1. inflection of mal:
    1. masculine nominative/vocative plural
    2. definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
    3. definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin malus. Compare Italian mali, male.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈma.li/
  • Hyphenation: mà‧li

Adjective

mali m pl or f pl

  1. masculine plural of malu; bad.
  2. feminine plural of malu

Inflection

Noun

mali m (plural mali)

  1. evil, harm

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmaʎi]

Participle

mali

  1. plural l-participle of mať

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَال (māl, “property”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mali (ma class, plural only)

  1. wealth, riches
  2. property

Usage notes

This word is morphologically plural but semantically singular. If a plural sense is required, it may be put in the n class.

Descendants

  • → Ila: madi
  • → Northern Ndebele: imali
  • → Rwanda-Rundi: imari
  • → Shona: mari
  • → Tswana: madi
  • → Xhosa: imali
  • → Zulu: imali
    • → English: mali

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /maˈliʔ/ [mɐˈliʔ], (colloquial) /maˈleʔ/ [mɐˈlɛʔ]
  • Rhymes: -iʔ
  • Syllabification: ma‧li

Adjective

malî (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎᜒ)

  1. wrong
    Synonym: lihis
    Antonyms: tama, wasto
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare Malay mali (“Leea indica”) and Malay mali-mali (“Leea angulata”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈmali/ [ˈmaː.lɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ali
  • Syllabification: ma‧li

Noun

mali (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎᜒ) (botany)

  1. bandicoot berry (Leea indica)

Anagrams

  • amil, ilam, Lima, lima

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • malî

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مالی (mali), from Arabic مَالِيّ (māliyy).

Adjective

mali

  1. financial, fiscal

Derived terms

Related terms

  • emtia
  • mal

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mali”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Woiwurrung

Noun

mali

  1. mallee

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