jali

Borrowed from Gujarati જાળી (jāḷī, “net”).

jali (plural jalis)

2. (architecture) A stone screen, perforated or latticed, usually with a geometrical ornamental pattern, used in Indian and Islamic architecture as a climate-controlling element.

   Alternative form: jaali

   • 2024, Sharmin Khan, Kheir Al-Kodmany, Mohd Khalid Hassan, M. Farhan Fazli, editors, The Majesty of Islamic Art and Architecture, Copal Publishing, →ISBN, page 16:

     The main purpose of jali is to control light, air flow, visual privacy, aesthetic and social role, and spatiality. The central technical aspect of the jali's construction is its function as a climate-controlling element, where the distances between the interstices, the size, and the volume of the balusters all have a direct effect on glare, temperature, humidity, and airflow inside the structure (Fathy, 1986).

• mashrabiyya

Borrowed from Bambara [Term?]. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

jali (plural jalis)

1. (uncommon, music) A praise-singer or griot in Western Africa.
   • 2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 172:

     The plucked instrument's harplike sound accompanies the jali's song—praise for patrons, histories and genealogies, satire, political commentary, and poetic recitation.

   • 2020, Andrew R. Martin, Matthew Mihalka, editors, Music around the World: A Global Encyclopedia‎^[1], Bloomsbury, →ISBN:

     The social status of jalis is complex. They are important keepers of cultural knowledge, and their dalilu gives them the sole right and power to perform certain types of music.

• jail

• jale

From a Common Slavic *žalь. Compare Romanian jale.

jali f (plural jeljuri)

1. sadness, grief, distress

• harauã

• ćulle

jali

1. tree
   • 1892, H. Livingstone, A short Grammar and Vocabulary of the Dialect spoken by the Minyuġ People, in John Fraser (ed.) An Australian Language

     Burre—the top of a tree; with this compare ćulle, ‘the barrel’ or ‘trunk’ of a tree; ... Ćulle is also a general name for a ‘tree.’ It often means ‘logs’ lying down, and ‘firewood’; e.g., kulga ćulle wébȧragai, ‘cut wood for the fire.’

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• IPA^(key): [ˈjalɪ]

jali

1. animate masculine plural past active participle of jmout

• yali, iali

From Latin illī, nominative masculine plural of ille.

jali m pl (masculine singular jal)

1. (third-person masculine plural pronoun) they

• jal, jala
• jale (feminine plural)
• jai

• ju
• te
• nu
• vu

jali (plural jali-jali)

1. Indo-Chinese rat snake, Ptyas korros

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zəlay.

• jelai, enjelai

jali (plural jali-jali)

1. Job's tears, Coix lacryma-jobi

From Arabic جَلِيٌّ (jaliyyun).

jali (comparative lebih jali, superlative paling jali)

1. (dialectal, dated)clear, obvious

   Synonyms: jelas, terang, nyata

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

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-jali (infinitive kujali)

1. to care, to worry, to be concerned
2. to respect, to honour

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -jalia
  • Causative: -jalisha
  • Passive: -jaliwa