خالی

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قالی (qalı), itself from Old Armenian Կարին (Karin), a city which was famed for rugs.

• قالی (kalı)

خالی • (halı)

1. carpet, a fabric used as a complete floor covering

   Synonym: كلیم (kilim)

• Turkish: halı
• → Albanian: halli
• → Bulgarian: халия (halija)
• → Greek: χαλί (chalí)
• → Persian: خالی (xâli)
  • Middle Armenian: խալի (xali)
    • Armenian: խալի (xali)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ха̀лија

  Latin script: hàlija

• → Zazaki: xali

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “halı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1849
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “خالی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 204b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خالی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 529
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tapes”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1649
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خالی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1844
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “halı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خالی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 825

Borrowed from Arabic خَالٍ (ḵālin, “empty, void”), a derivation from the verb خَلَا (ḵalā, “to be empty, to be free”).

خالی • (hali)

1. empty, void, devoid of content, containing nothing or nobody

   Synonym: بوش (boş)

2. vacant, unoccupied, not being used or not being inhabited

   Synonym: منحل (münhall)

• Turkish: hali

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hali1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1849
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hâlî”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[6] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 379
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خالی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 529
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vacuus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[8], Vienna, column 1710
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خالی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 1844
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hali”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خالی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 825

Borrowed from Arabic خَالٍ (ḵālin).

خالی • (xâli)

1. empty, devoid

   Synonym: تهی (tohi)

   بشقاب خالی ― bošqâb-e xâli ― empty plate

   خالی از توهّم ― xâli az tavahhom ― devoid of imagination; unimaginative

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 2153:

     چون که گنجی هست در عالم مرنج
     هیچ ویران را مدان خالی ز گنج‏

     čōn ki ganj-ē hast dar 'ālam ma-ranj
     hēč wērān rā ma-dān xālī zi ganj

     Since there exists a treasure in the world, do not grieve:
     deem no ruined place empty of treasure.

2. empty, unoccupied

   این میز خالی شد. (at a restaurant) ― in miz xâli šod. ― This table is now available.

   جات خالی بود. ― jâ-t xâli bud. ― You were missed. (literally, “Your place was empty.”)

3. (chiefly Dari) merely, only

• خالی کردن (xâli kardan)

• → Assamese: খালী (khali)
• → Bengali: খালি (khali)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ख़ाली (xālī)

  Urdu: خالی (xālī)

  • → Phalura: xaalí, خالیۡ

• → Sylheti: ꠈꠣꠟꠤ (xáli)
• → Telugu: ఖాళీ (khāḷī)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

خالی • (xâli)

1. alternative form of قالی (qâli)

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَالِی (xālī), from Arabic خَالٍ (ḵālin).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɑː.liː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: خا‧لی

خَالی • (xālī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़ाली)

1. empty, vacant

   ایک خالی ڈبہ ― ek xālī ḍabbā ― an empty box

   وہ خالی ہاتھ لوٹ آیا ― vo xālī hāth lauṭ āyā ― he returned empty-handed

2. (by extension) emptyhanded
3. desolate, deserted, uninhabited
4. merely, only
5. devoid

• “خالی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “خالی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خالی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

خالی (xālī)

1. Dhu al-Qa'dah, the eleventh month of the Islamic calendar