wadi

From Arabic وَادِي, وَادٍ (wādī, wādin, “valley, riverbed, ravine”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑdi/

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wadi (plural wadis or wadies)

1. A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

   Synonyms: nahal, wash

   Near-synonym: arroyo

• DWAI, Waid, waid

wadi

1. younger sibling

From Arabic وَادٍ (wādin, “valley, riverbed, ravine”).

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• Hyphenation: wa‧di

wadi m (plural wadi's, no diminutive)

1. (geology) wadi
2. (ecology, urban studies) rain garden, urban swale, bioswale (a shallow planted ditch for collecting stormwater runoff and allowing it to infiltrate into the ground)

• rivierdal

wadi

1. romanization of 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwadi/ [ˈwa.di]
• Rhymes: -adi
• Syllabification: wa‧di

Borrowed from Arabic وَادِي, وَادٍ (wādī, wādin, “wadi; valley, riverbed, ravine”).

wadi (plural wadi-wadi)

1. (geology) nahal, wadi, wash
2. the last drop of semen or urine

Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦢꦶ (wadi, “secret”), from Old Javanese wadi (“depth; hidden part; the deepest (the real) meaning, the actual significance, secret”), probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qadi (“that, there”).

wadi (comparative lebih wadi, superlative paling wadi)

1. secret

Borrowed from Malay [Term?] and Ngaju [Term?].

wadi (plural wadi-wadi)

1. (cooking) freshwater fish fermented with salt, palm sugar, toasted rice grains and pieces of Garcinia atroviridis.

• “wadi”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈwadi/ [ˈwa.ð̞i]
• Rhymes: -adi
• Syllabification: wa‧di

wadi m (plural wadis)

1. wadi

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Borrowed from Arabic وَادٍ (wādin, “valley, riverbed, ravine”).^[1]

wadi class IX (plural wadi class X)

1. gully

wadi class IX (plural wadi class X)

1. alternative form of waladi (“son”)

Borrowed from English ward.

wadi class IX (plural wadi class X)

1. alternative form of wodi (“ward”)