காலி

Tamil

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian (xālī), from Arabic خَالٍ (ḵālin). Compare Assamese খালী (khali), Bengali খালি (khali), Malayalam കാലി (kāli), Sylheti ꠈꠣꠟꠤ (xáli), Telugu ఖాళీ (khāḷī), Hindi ख़ाली (xālī).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡaːlɪ/, [ɡaːli]
IPA^(key): /kaːlɪ/, [kaːli]

Adjective

காலி • (kāli)

empty, vacant
Synonyms: வெறுமை (veṟumai), வெற்று (veṟṟu)

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaːlɪ/, [kaːli]

Proper noun

காலி • (kāli)

Galle (a city in Southern Province, Sri Lanka)

References

Johann Philipp Fabricius, Na. Kadirvelu Pillai, David W. McAlpin, Rajagopal Subramanian, University of Madras, Miron Winslow (2022) “காலி”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]

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