قالی

Persian

― carpets

Alternative forms

خالی (xālī / xâli), غالی (ġālī / ġâli)
قالین (qālīn / ġâlin) (Dari, Tajik)

Etymology

Derived from Old Armenian Կարին (Karin).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /qaː.ˈliː/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɑː.liː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qɑː.liː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qɔː.li]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qɒː.liː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qɔ.li]

Readings
Classical reading^?	qālī
Dari reading^?	qālī
Iranian reading^?	ġâli
Tajik reading^?	qoli

Noun

قالی • (qālī / ġâli) (plural قالی‌ها (qālī-hā / ġâli-hâ), Tajik spelling қолӣ)

(Iranian spelling) carpet, rug

Usage notes

The forms and are both attested in Classical Persian. Today, both forms remain recognized, though the form is preferred in Iran and the form is preferred in Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

Derived terms

قالیچه (qālīča / ġâliče)

Descendants

→ Gujarati: કાલીન (kālīn)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: क़ालीन (qālīn)

Urdu: قالِین (qālīn)
→ Kashmiri: قألیٖن (qạlīn)
→ Old Anatolian Turkish: قالی (qalı)
- Azerbaijani: xalı, xalça
- Ottoman Turkish: خالی (halı), قالی (kalı)
  - 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
→? Pashto: غالۍ (ǧâlëy)
→ Sindhi: قالين

Further reading

قالی on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fa
Bulkin, Carleton (2012) “قالین”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “قالی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “قالی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قالی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
“قالی”, in قاموس کبیر افغانستان [qāmūs-i kabīr-i afġānistān, The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan] (in Persian), Afghan Dictionary, 2023