wali

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑːliː/

Borrowed from Arabic وَالٍ (wālin).

wali (plural walis)

1. A provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.
   • 2007 November 2, Jane Perlez, “Militants Draw New Front Line Inside Pakistan”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     For much of the last century, the mountainous region of Swat was ruled as a princely kingdom where a benign autocrat, the wali, bestowed schools for girls, health care for everyone and the chance to get a degree abroad for the talented.

• wāli; vali (Turkish contexts)

• sanjakbey, mutasarrif, kaymakam, mudir

From Arabic وَلِيّ (waliyy).

wali (plural walis)

1. (Islam) A saint or prophet.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 130:

     You see the shrine was founded in memory of a great Wali, seer, holy man – but apparently a Mohammedan.

• wail, wila

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *waʀi (“day; sun”).

wali

1. east

   I wali ko cidal a masadak to dafak.

   The sun rises in the east in the morning.

• 原住民族語言線上辭典 [Online Dictionary of Indigenous Languages]‎^[2] (in Mandarin), Taipei: Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation, 2014–2026

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

Borrowed from Old Javanese wali (“again; once more”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bali (“reverse, turn around”), from Proto-Austronesian *baliw (“return”).

wali (Balinese script ᬯᬮᬶ)

1. (alus mider) to return

Borrowed from Old Javanese wali, bali, from Sanskrit बलि (bali). Doublet of bali.

wali (Balinese script ᬯᬮᬶ)

1. ceremony
2. sacred dance

• “bali”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

• IPA^(key): /ˈwali/ [ˈwa.l̪ɪ]
• Hyphenation: wa‧li

wali (Badlit spelling ᜏᜎᜒ)

1. sermon

   Synonym: sangyaw

From Arabic وَالِي (wālī).

• IPA^(key): /wáː.líː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [wáː.líː]

wālī m (possessed form wālin)

1. vizier (a traditional title)

See wàliyyī̀.

• IPA^(key): /wà.lîː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [wə̀.lîː]

wàlî m (possessed form wàlîn)

1. alternative form of wàliyyī̀

• → Yoruba: wòlíì

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwali/ [ˈwa.li]
• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: wa‧li

From Malay wali, from Arabic وَلِيّ (waliyy).

wali (plural wali-wali or para wali)

1. custodian
2. (law, Indonesia) guardian (a person or institution legally responsible for a minor in loco parentis)
3. (Islam) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
4. (Islam) saint

   Synonym: orang suci

5. plenipotentiary

From Arabic وَالِي (wālī), of وَالٍ (wālin).

wali (plural wali-wali or para wali)

1. chief (of a territory)
   1. wali (a provincial governor in certain Islamic countries)

From Old Javanese wali (“ritual requisites; ceremonial clothes”), bali (“tribute, offering”), from Sanskrit बलि (bali).

wali (plural wali-wali)

1. (obsolete) yellow drapery, for ceremonial use
2. small, sharp carving knife

wali (plural wali-wali or para wali)

1. clipping of rajawali (“peregrine falcon”)

• “wali”, 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

wali

1. romanization of ꦮꦭꦶ

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

• IPA^(key): /wali/

wali (verbal noun awali or tuwalin)

1. to see; to watch

   Synonym: ẓer

   Ur walaɣ tigert. ― I can't see anything.

2. to think; to consider; to estimate

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[3], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

wáli

1. Súlat Wáwâ spelling of uali

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

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bali (“reverse, turn around”), from Proto-Austronesian *baliw (“return”).

• waluy

wali

1. again
2. once more

wali

1. to repeat

• > Javanese: ꦮꦭꦶ (wali, “repeatedly”) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬯᬮᬶ (bali)

Borrowed from Sanskrit बलि (bali). Doublet of bali (“tribute, offering”).

wali

1. ritual requisites
2. ceremonial clothes
3. person in-charge of ritual or ceremony

• > Javanese: ꦮꦭꦶ (wali, “ceremonial yellow drapery; small knife”) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬯᬮᬶ (wali)
• >? Balinese: ᬩᭂᬮᬶ (beli)

wali

1. alternative spelling of wallī (“creeper”)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.li/
• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: wa‧li

wali m animal

1. genitive plural of wal

   Synonym: walów

wali

1. third-person singular present of walić

• IPA^(key): /wa.ˈli/, [wa.ˈli]

wali

1. east

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From Malagasy vary (“uncooked rice”).

wali class XI (no plural)

1. cooked rice

• mchele (raw husked rice)
• mpunga (raw unhusked rice)

• (Cereals) nafaka; shayiri (“barley”), mahindi (“maize”), ulezi (“millet”), oti (“oats”), mchele (“husked rice”) / mpunga (“unhusked rice”) / wali (“cooked rice”), ngano nyekundu (“rye”), mtama (“sorghum”), ngano (“wheat”) ^{(Category: sw:Grains) [edit]}

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wali

1. plural of mwali

• IPA^(key): /wɑli/

wali

1. long

• Maurice Boxwell, Weri Organised Phonology Data (1992), p. 2