ဗလီ

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: ဗ'လီ
  • IPA(key): /bəlì/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ba.li • ALA-LC: balī • BGN/PCGN: băli • Okell: băli

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Tamil பள்ளி (paḷḷi, “school”), probably via Sanskrit पल्ली (pallī).

Noun

ဗလီ • (ba.li)

  1. (Islam) mosque

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit गौली (gaulī). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is this an actual Sanskrit word? Doesn't seem to be in Monier Williams.”)

Noun

ဗလီ • (ba.li)

  1. game of polo
    Synonym: ဂူလီ (guli)
Derived terms
  • ဗလီကွက် (ba.li-kwak)

Further reading

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
  • balī (Latin script)
  • 𑀩𑀮𑀻 (Brahmi script)
  • बली (Devanagari script)
  • বলী (Bengali script)
  • බලී (Sinhalese script)
  • ဗလဳ or ၿလီ (Burmese script)
  • พลี or พะลี (Thai script)
  • ᨻᩃᩦ (Tai Tham script)
  • ພລີ or ພະລີ (Lao script)
  • ពលី (Khmer script)
  • 𑄝𑄣𑄩 (Chakma script)

Adjective

ဗလီ (balī)

  1. Burmese script form of balī, which is inflection of ဗလိန်:
    1. nominative singular masculine
    2. nominative/vocative/accusative plural masculine/neuter (balin, “strong”)
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