kali

From Arabic قِلْي (qily). See alkali.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæli/, /ˈkeɪli/

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kali (uncountable)

1. The prickly glasswort (Kali turgidum, syn. of Salsola kali).
   • 1765, Temple H. Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clarke, The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Volume 2:

     But the kali is principally regarded, on account of its yielding copiously, when burnt, the fixed alkaline salt called soda […]

2. Alkali, particularly soda ash or potash.

Uncertain; see arnis#Name at Wikipedia for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːli/

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kali (uncountable)

1. Traditional Philippine stick fighting, a martial art.

   Synonyms: arnis, eskrima

Uncertain; possibly a reference to the appearance of soda ash produced by burning kali (Etymology 1).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪli/

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kali (uncountable)

1. A type of British crystalline sweet or candy, similar in appearance to sherbet but made with larger sugar crystals.
   • 1928, Kenrayne (pseudonym), “Toffees and Twists”, in The Homestead (South Africa)‎^[1], page 27:

     [M]any women will be glad to know exactly how to start making sweets so that they will be saleable. [...] Lozenges, comfits, kali, bonbons, etc.

   • 2005, Christopher Upton, Living Back-to-back‎^[2], page 152:

     The stock is supplied by Sela Traditional Sweet Co., based in Thynne Street, West Bromwich, which has been making a vast range of boiled sweets—sarsaparilla tablets, kali, clove balls, lime juice bricks, rosy apples and the rest—since 1882.

   • 2012 June 6, Nigel Slater (@NigelSlater), Twitter‎^[3]:

     A positive shower of sherbets. Include fountains, lemons, dibdabs, flying saucers, even jars of Kali.

• Lika, ilka, Kail, kail, kila, laik, Laki, Akil

kali

1. definite nominative singular and indefinite dative/ablative singular of kalë

kali

1. ditch; trench

kali

1. (Mpakwithi) hole

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

From Javanese ꦏꦭꦶ (kali), from Old Javanese kali, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali. Compare to Malay gali ~ kali (“to dug”).

kali

1. river

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali, from Proto-Austronesian *kalih.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈli/ [kaˈl̪i]
• Hyphenation: ka‧li

kalí (Basahan spelling ᜃᜎᜒ)

1. canal; ditch; trench; gutter

   Synonym: saruro

kali

1. building, house.

kali

1. building, house.

kali

1. kind of large bird

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦶ (kali), from Old Javanese kali, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali.

kali f (plural kali's)

1. (Indonesia) river
   • 1978, “Ajoen Ajoen”, in Anton Beuving (lyrics), Harry Bannink (music), Weerzien met Indië‎^[4], performed by Wieteke van Dort:

     Ga niet baden daar in de kali / en ga niet trouwen daar in Pesapen / Laat je raden, m’n kleine Ali / wanneer ik jou met raad van dienst wil zijn / (...) / Want een kaaiman zit in de kali / en ook een kaaiman zit in Pesapen / ’t Is je schoonma, m′n kleine Ali / die erop loert dat jij getrouwd zal zijn

     Don't go bathing out there in the river / and don't get married out there in Pesapen / Take good counsel, my little Ali / when I wish to be of service to you with advice / (...) / Because there's a caiman in the river/ and there's also a caiman in Pesapen / It's your mother-in-law, my little Ali / who's lying in wait for you to have gotten married

From Proto-Finnic *kalja. Possibly a pre-Balto-Slavic Indo-European loan, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂al-ew-yo-.

kali (genitive kalja, partitive kalja)

1. kvass

From German Kali.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑli/, [ˈkɑ̝li]
• Rhymes: -ɑli
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧li
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧li

kali

1. potassium
2. potassium oxide

• “kali”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• laki, lika

kali m (plural kalis)

1. kali (plant)

• “kali”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.li/, [ˈkɐ.li]

From Proto-Oceanic *tari (compare with Maori tari ~ tatari “to wait”; Rarotongan tari; Tongan tali; and Samoan tali).^[1]

kali(intransitive)

1. to wait
2. to loiter
3. to hesitate

• hoʻokali (“cause to wait”, verb)
• kalikali

• pākali

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kali

1. Niʻihau form of kohe (“vagina”)

• kali in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali, from Proto-Austronesian *kalih.

kali (used in the form ikali)

1. to dig (to move hard-packed earth out of the way)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkali/ [ˈka.li]
• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: ka‧li

From Malay kali, from Sanskrit काल (kāla, “time”). Doublet of kala.

kali (plural kali)

1. time (instance or occurrence)

   Aku berbelanja ke pasar tiga kali seminggu.

   I shop at the market three times a week.

kali

1. (mathematics) times

   Dua kali tiga sama dengan enam. ― Two times three equals six.

kali

1. Clipping of barangkali (“perhaps, maybe, probably”)
2. (Medan, slang) very

   Synonyms: amat, banget, sangat, sekali, sungguh

When multiplication is not commutative, dikali may be preferred. Otherwise, kali and dikali are interchangeable.

From Javanese ꦏꦭꦶ (kali), from Old Javanese kali, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali. Compare to Malay gali ~ kali (“to dug”).

kali (plural kali-kali)

1. synonym of sungai (“river”)

Compare Malay keli.

kali (plural kali-kali)

1. (dialectal or rare) synonym of lele (“catfish”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kali (plural kali-kali)

1. a high official, in South Sulawesi

• “kali” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

kali

1. romanization of ꦏꦭꦶ

Chemical element
K
Previous: ? (Ar)
Next: kalcéń (Ca)

Borrowed from German Kali.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.li/
• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: ka‧li

kali f

1. potash

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “potas”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2

kali

1. second-person singular past indicative of kalt

• IPA^(key): /kali/
• Rhymes: -ali, -li, -i

From Proto-Malayic *kali, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali, from Proto-Austronesian *kalih.

• gali

kali (Jawi spelling کالي)

1. obsolete form of gali

   Synonym: korek

From Javanese ꦏꦭꦶ (kali), from Old Javanese kali.

kali (Jawi spelling کالي, plural kali-kali)

1. river (large stream which drains a landmass)

   Synonyms: alir, alur, batang, bengawan, ci, sungai, wai

From Sanskrit काल (kāla, “time”). Doublet of kala.

kali (Jawi spelling کالي, plural kali-kali)

1. time (instance or occurence)

   Berapa kali awak pernah melancong ke Sandakan?

   How many times have you been to Sandakan?

kali (Jawi spelling کالي)

1. (mathematics) times

   Dua kali empat sama dengan lapan. ― Two times four is equals to eight.

kali (Jawi spelling کالي)

1. (mathematics) to times, to multiply

• Indonesian: kali

• “kali” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Tamil கள்ளி (kaḷḷi).

kali

1. cactus

Inherited from Assamese কালি (kali).

kali

1. tomorrow

• aji

kali

1. (Waangaybuwan) water
   • 2001, Mood and Modality, →ISBN:

     ɡaliː-ŋinda-ɡila ŋiyanu balu-y-aɡa

     water-CARIT-HYPOTH we+PL+NOM die-CM-IRR

     we'll probably die for lack of water

• gali (Wayilwan)

• Barry Alpher, Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004, →ISBN

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali. Compare to Malay gali ~ kali (“to dig”).

kali

1. river

   Synonyms: baṅawan, gaṅgā, gĕṅga, kali, kaweri, loh, lwah, nadī, prawāha, saraswat, sarit, sindhu, suṅe, suṅhe, suṅeṅ, suṅhay, suṅi

2. deep watercourse
3. river-bed
4. channel

• Javanese: ꦏꦭꦶ (kali)
  • → Betawi: kali
  • → Dutch: kali
  • → Indonesian: kali
  • → Malay: kali
• → Balinese: ᬓᬮᬶ (kali)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.li/

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• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: ka‧li

kali

1. third-person singular present of kalić

kali

1. feminine singular of kalo

kali (Cyrillic spelling кали)

1. inflection of káliti:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

kali (Cyrillic spelling кали)

1. nominative/vocative plural of kal

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali (“to dug”).

kali (Sundanese script ᮊᮜᮤ)

1. to dig

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Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

-kali (declinable)

1. sharp
2. fierce
3. acidic
4. harsh, cruel
5. savage
6. intense

• makali
• ukali

Borrowed from English kalium.

kali class IX (plural kali class X)

1. potassium

   Synonym: potasiamu

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈli/ [kɐˈlɪ], /kaˈliʔ/ [kɐˈlɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -i, -iʔ
• Syllabification: ka‧li

kalí or kalî (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒ) (chiefly in the negative)

1. rest; quietude; repose; quietude

• kale — colloquial

kalí (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒ) (medicine, archaic)

1. boneache

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈliʔ/ [kɐˈlɪʔ], (colloquial) /kaˈleʔ/ [kɐˈlɛʔ]
• Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: ka‧li

kalî (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒ) (Bataan)

1. I wonder (placed after interrogative pronouns)

   Synonym: kaya

Possibly a clipping of kalis.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkali/ [ˈkaː.lɪ]
• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: ka‧li

kali (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒ)

1. kali (Philippine stick fighting)

   Synonyms: arnis, eskrima

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkali/ [ˈkaː.lɪ]
• Rhymes: -ali
• Syllabification: ka‧li

kali (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒ)

1. canal
2. (obsolete) excavation
3. (obsolete) asking for the care of others

• “kali”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• laki, akli

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali.

kali (used in the form magkali)

1. to dig

Chemical element
K
Previous: agon (Ar)
Next: canxi (Ca)

Ultimately from New Latin kalium, with the suffix -um removed as with most chemical elements.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˧ li˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˧ lɪj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˧ lɪj˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: ca li

kali

1. potassium