காலி
Tamil edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
Adjective edit
காலி • (kāli)
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
காலி • (kāli)
- Galle (a city in Southern Province, Sri Lanka)
References edit
- 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]