pali

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pali"

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English

Noun

pali

1. plural of palus

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

pali m or f (masculine and feminine plural palis)

1. (relational) of Pali

Noun

pali m (uncountable)

1. Pali

References

• “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)

Further reading

• pali on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Chavacano

Etymology

Borrowed from Hiligaynon pali.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

palî

1. (Cotabateño, Zamboangueño) scar

   Synonym: (Caviteño, Ternateño) pilat

Cornish

Etymology

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

Noun

pali m (uncountable)

1. velvet
2. brocade

Derived terms

• a bali (“velvet”, adjective)
• penn pali (“blue tit”)

Mutation

Mutation of pali

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
pali	bali	fali	unchanged	unchanged

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

References

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

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin palleō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin pallidus

Old French palebor.

Middle English pale

English palebor.

▲

Old French paleder.

French pâlebor.

Esperanto pala

Esperanto -i

Esperanto pali

From pala + -i.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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.

Conjugation

Conjugation of pali

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		palas		palis		palos
active participle		palanta	palantaj	palinta	palintaj	palonta	palontaj
	acc.	palantan	palantajn	palintan	palintajn	palontan	palontajn
nominal active participle		palanto	palantoj	palinto	palintoj	palonto	palontoj
	acc.	palanton	palantojn	palinton	palintojn	palonton	palontojn
adverbial active participle		palante		palinte		palonte
		infinitive	pali	imperative	palu	conditional	palus

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.li/, [ˈpɐ.li]

Noun

pali

1. cliff, precipice

Hiligaynon

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /paˈliʔ/ [paˈliʔ]

Noun

palî

1. scar

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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?

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	pali	palik
accusative	palit	palikat
dative	palinak	paliknak
instrumental	palival	palikkal
causal-final	paliért	palikért
translative	palivá	palikká
terminative	paliig	palikig
essive-formal	paliként	palikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	paliban	palikban
superessive	palin	palikon
adessive	palinál	paliknál
illative	paliba	palikba
sublative	palira	palikra
allative	palihoz	palikhoz
elative	paliból	palikból
delative	paliról	palikról
ablative	palitól	paliktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	palié	paliké
non-attributive possessive – plural	paliéi	palikéi

Possessive forms of pali

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	palim	palijaim (or paliim)
2nd person sing.	palid	palijaid (or paliid)
3rd person sing.	palija	palijai (or palii)
1st person plural	palink	palijaink (or paliink)
2nd person plural	palitok	palijaitok (or paliitok)
3rd person plural	palijuk	palijaik (or paliik)

Derived terms

Compound words

• bepaliz

Compound words

• palimadár

Expressions

• palira vesz

Further reading

• 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.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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)

1. Pali (Indo-Aryan language)

Adjective

pali (invariable)

1. (relational) Pali

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pali m pl

1. plural of palio

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pali m pl

1. plural of palo

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pali

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

Anagrams

• Alpi, alpi, pila

Javanese

Romanization

pali

1. romanization of ꦥꦭꦶ

Latin

Noun

pālī

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

Latvian

Noun

pali m pl (1st declension)

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

Declension

Declension of pali (1st)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative	—	pali
genitive	—	palu
dative	—	paliem
accusative	—	palus
instrumental	—	paliem
locative	—	palos
vocative	—	pali

Derived terms

• paliene

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpali/, [ˈpalʲi]

Verb

pali

1. third-person singular present of paliś

Matigsalug Manobo

Noun

palì

1. (medicine) wound

Mizo

Etymology

Mizo numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: pali

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

Numeral

pali (inanimate li)

1. four

References

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

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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

1. 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

1. 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^(key): /ˈpa.li/

• Audio:

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

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Sanskrit पालि (pāli)lbor.

Polish pali

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पालि (pāli).

Noun

pali n (indeclinable)

1. 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

1. genitive plural of pal

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pali

1. third-person singular present of palić

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

pȃli m inan (Cyrillic spelling па̑ли)

1. Pali (language)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pali (Cyrillic spelling пали)

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

Participle

pali (Cyrillic spelling пали)

1. masculine plural active past participle of pȁsti

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

pali m or f (masculine and feminine plural palis)

1. Pali

Noun

pali m (uncountable)

1. Pali

Further reading

• “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

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

palî (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜒ) (anatomy, immunology)

1. spleen

   Synonyms: limpa, baso, lapay, lumpay

See also

• ulirat

Further reading

• “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

Anagrams

• lipa, Lipa, pila, lapi, ilap

Thao

Noun

pali

1. wing (of an animal)

Unami

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpali]

Adjective

pali

1. other
2. different

Adverb

pali

1. away
2. elsewhere

References

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle Welsh pali, from Old French palie, from Latin pallium.

Noun

pali m (plural palïau)

1. brocade, satin

   Synonym: satin

2. plush, velvet

   Synonym: melfed

Derived terms

• cath bali (“ermine, stoat”)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• (literary) peli

Verb

pali

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of pali

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pali	bali	mhali	phali

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

Zotung Chin

Zotung Chin cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : pali

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.liː/

Noun

pali

1. four

See also

• thum
• pango