али

Cognate with Mongolian аль (alʹ). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (standard) IPA^(key): [ä.lʲɪ]
• Hyphenation: а‧ли

али • (ali)

1. or

• IPA^(key): [ˈali]

али • (ali)

1. (nonstandard) but

али • (ali)

1. indefinite plural of ала (ala)

• IPA^(key): [ˈalʲɪ]

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а́ли • (áli)

1. (archaic, colloquial) or

   Synonyms: аль (alʹ), и́ли (íli), иль (ilʹ), либо (libo)

   Antonym: и (i)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ali, *ale.

• IPA^(key): /âli/
• Hyphenation: а‧ли

а̏ли (Latin spelling ȁli)

1. but
2. however

• “али”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• “али”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

али

1. Cyrillic spelling of ali

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [äˈʎi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: али

али • (aľi)

1. now, at present, currently

   али гинэ ― aľi gine ― just now

2. (dialectal) maybe, perhaps (used as a modal verb)

али • (aľi)

1. Used after an imperative verb to soften the command or express urgency

   учкы али! ― ućky aľi! ― look at this!

2. Used to emphasize the preceding word
3. still, yet

али • (aľi)

1. or (used as a disjunctive conjunction)

• L. E. Kirillova, L. L. Karpova, editors (2008), “али”, in Удмурт-ӟуч кыллюкам [Udmurt-Russian dictionary], Izhevsk: Удмуртский институт истории, языка и литературы УрО РАН, →ISBN, page 39
• T. V. Voronova, T. A. Poyarkova, editor (2012), Удмурт-ӟуч, ӟуч-удмурт кыллюкам [Udmurt-Russian, Russian-Udmurt dictionary] (overall work in Russian), Izhevsk: Книжное издательство «Удмуртия», →ISBN, page 8
• R. S. Nasibullin; V. G. Semenov (2013), “сейчас”, in Системно-Тематический Русско-Удмуртский Словарь [Systematic-Thematic Russian-Udmurt Dictionary], Izhevsk: Ассоциация «Научная книга», page 258
• Yrjö Wichmann; Toivo Emil Uotila (1987), Mikko Korhonen, editor, Wotjakischer Wortschatz [Votyak Vocabulary] (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae; Volume 21) (overall work in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 5