pali

pali

1. plural of palus

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpa.li]

pali m or f (masculine and feminine plural palis)

1. (relational) of Pali

pali m (uncountable)

1. Pali

• “pali”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pali”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “pali” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “pali”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

• pali on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Borrowed from Hiligaynon pali.

• IPA^(key): /paˈliʔ/, [paˈliʔ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧li

palî

1. (Cotabateño, Zamboangueño) scar

   Synonym: (Caviteño, Ternateño) pilat

From Old French palie, from Latin pallium. Compare Welsh pali.

pali m (uncountable)

1. velvet
2. brocade

• “pali” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

From pala +‎ -i.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpali/
• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: pa‧li

pali (present palas, past palis, future palos, conditional palus, volitive palu)

1. (intransitive) to be pale
   • 1951, William Auld, “Kelkaj konstatoj pri tradukado de poezio”, in Malgranda Revuo, number 1, page 14:

     La lun’ mistera palis kvazaŭ
     vualus ĝin arĝenta gaz’ aŭ
     diafana mortotuko.

     The mysterious moon was pale as if
     it were veiled by silver gauze or
     a translucent shroud.

   • 1982, Claude Piron, chapter 9, in Ĉu ni kunvenis vane?‎^[2]:

     Li ridetis, sed ege palis lia vizaĝo.

     He smiled, but his face was very pale.

   • 2016 [1926], chapter 19, in Dorothea Kaiser, Hans-Georg Kaiser, transl., La Mortula Ŝipo, translation of The Death Ship by B. Traven (in German), →ISBN:

     Sed la nomo tiel palis kaj tiel ellaviĝis, kvazaŭ ĝi hontus havi tiun nomon.

     But the name was so pale and so washed-out, as though it were ashamed to have that name.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.li/, [ˈpɐ.li]

pali

1. cliff, precipice

IPA^(key): /paˈliʔ/ [paˈliʔ]

palî

1. scar

From the proper noun Pali, from Pál (“Paul”) +‎ -i (diminutive suffix).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒli]
• Hyphenation: pa‧li
• Rhymes: -li

pali (plural palik)

1. (slang, used chiefly in its derivatives) mug, dupe, sucker (a person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person)
2. (slang) guy, bloke, fellow, chap

   Ki ez a pali? ― Who is this guy?

• pali in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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

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

pali m (uncountable)

1. Pali (Indo-Aryan language)

pali (invariable)

1. (relational) Pali

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pali m pl

1. plural of palio

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pali m pl

1. plural of palo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pali

1. inflection of palare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

• Alpi, alpi, pila

pali

1. romanization of ꦥꦭꦶ

pālī

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

pali m pl (1st declension)

1. flood, freshet (flood), high water, inundation

• paliene

• IPA^(key): /ˈpali/, [ˈpalʲi]

pali

1. third-person singular present of paliś

palì

1. (medicine) wound

Mizo numbers ^(edit)

←  3	4	5  →
Cardinal: pali

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *li, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-lij.

pali (inanimate li)

1. four

• Grammar and Dictionary of the Lushai Language by J.H. Lorrain, Shillong 1898

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

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

pali

1. ritual, ceremonies

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

pali

1. repeatedly; insistence

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.li/

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• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: pa‧li
• Homophone: Pali

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पालि (pāli).

pali n (indeclinable)

1. Pali (Middle Indo-Aryan language of north India, closely related to Sanskrit; the sacred language of the Buddhist scriptures)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pali m inan

1. genitive plural of pal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pali

1. third-person singular present of palić

• “pali”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• język pali in PWN's encyclopedia

• IPA^(key): /pâːli/
• Hyphenation: pa‧li

pȃli m inan (Cyrillic spelling па̑ли)

1. Pali (language)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pali (Cyrillic spelling пали)

1. inflection of paliti:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

pali (Cyrillic spelling пали)

1. masculine plural active past participle of pȁsti

• IPA^(key): /ˈpali/ [ˈpa.li]
• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: pa‧li

pali m or f (masculine and feminine plural palis)

1. Pali

pali m (uncountable)

1. Pali

• “pali”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *paliq (“an internal organ, probably spleen or pancreas”). Compare Malay pelih.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paˈliʔ/ [pɐˈlɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧li

palî (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜒ) (anatomy, immunology)

1. spleen

   Synonyms: limpa, baso, lapay, lumpay

• “pali”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “pali”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paliq₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• lipa, Lipa, pila, lapi, ilap

pali

1. wing (of an animal)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpali]

pali

1. other
2. different

pali

1. away
2. elsewhere

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “pali”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈpalɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈpa(ː)li/

Inherited from Middle Welsh pali, from Old French palie, from Latin pallium.^[1]

pali m (plural palïau)

1. brocade, satin

   Synonym: satin

2. plush, velvet

   Synonym: melfed

• cath bali (“ermine, stoat”)

• (literary) peli

pali

1. (colloquial) second-person singular future of palu

Zotung Chin cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : pali

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *liː,^[1] from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-lij. Cognates include Mizo pali and Zou li.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.liː/

pali

1. four

• thum
• pango

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