Inherited from Sanskrit गिरि (giri, “a mountain, hill, rock, elevation, rising-ground”). Cognate to Sinhalese ගල (gala, “stone, rock”). Doublet of ގާ (gā) and ގިރި (giri)
- IPA(key): /ɡa.laː/, [ɡä.laː]
- Hyphenation: ގަ‧ލާ
ގަލާ • (galā) (plural ގަލާތައް (galātak̊))
- (archaic) rocks that dry up at low tide
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “ގަލާ”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 95
