காலி

Tamil

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian خالی (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)

1. empty, vacant

   Synonyms: வெறுமை (veṟumai), வெற்று (veṟṟu)

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːlɪ/, [kaːli]

Proper noun

காலி • (kāli)

1. 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 Asia [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]