Pali

See also: pali, páli, pâli, pāli, păli, pāḷi, and pali-

English

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पालि (pāli).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːli/
Rhymes: -ɑːli

Proper noun

Pali

A Middle Indo-Aryan language of north India, closely related to Sanskrit; the sacred language of the Buddhist scriptures. [from 1690s[1]]
The Prakrit language of the Buddha.

Translations

a Middle Indo-Aryan language

Armenian: պալի (hy) (pali)
Basque: paliera
Bengali: পালি (pali)
Burmese: ပါဠိ (my) (pali.)
Catalan: pali (ca) m
Chakma: 𑄛𑄣𑄨 (pāli)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 巴利語／巴利语 (zh) (bālìyǔ)
Finnish: paali (fi)
French: pali (fr) m
German: Pali (de) n
Greek: πάλι (el) (páli), παλική (palikí)
Gujarati: પાલિ (pāli)
Hebrew: פאלי‎
Hindi: पालि (hi) f (pāli), पाली (hi) f (pālī), पली (hi) f (palī)
Hungarian: Páli (hu)
Italian: pali (it) m
Japanese: パーリ語 (ja) (pārigo)
Khmer: បាលី (km) (baaləy)
Korean: 팔리어 (pallieo)
Lao: ບາລີ (bā lī)
Malayalam: പാലി (ml) (pāli)
Marathi: पाली (pālī)
Mon: ပါဠိ, ပၠိ
Nepali: पाली (pālī)
Newar: पली (palī)
Oriya: ପାଳି (or) (paḷi)
Pali: pāli, pāḷi
Polish: pali (pl) n
Portuguese: páli (pt) m
Punjabi: ਪਾਲੀ (pālī)
Russian: па́ли (ru) m (páli)
Sanskrit: पालि (sa) (pāli), पालिभाषा (pālibhāṣā), पाली (sa) f (pālī)
Shan: ပႃႇလီႉ (pàa lḭ̂i)
Sinhalese: පාලි (si) (pāli)
Tamil: பாளி (ta) (pāḷi)
Telugu: పాళీ (te) (pāḷī)
Thai: บาลี (th) (baa-lii)
Urdu: پالی‎ (pālī)
Western Panjabi: پالی‎ (pnb) (pālī)

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “Pali”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 八里 (Bālǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Pa¹-li³.

Proper noun

Pali

Alternative form of Bali
- 1976, Chen, Pao-shu, “A Study on Reesimermis Nielseni for Control of Culex Pipiens Fatigans in Taiwan”, in Bulletin of the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica‎, volume 15, number 1, ISSN 0001-3943, OCLC 2256859, page 22, column 2:
  For field release trials, two C. p. fatigans breeding places (hereafter referred to as sites “A” and “B”) were selected in Pali Township, Taipei County.
- 1981 October 25, Kritzer, Robert Benjamin, “This young American finds basic Chinese values still intact in old & new Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly (自由中國週報)‎, volume XXII, number 42, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 2:
  Forty minutes later, we found ourselves seated on boulders on the side of Kuan Yin Shan with a lovely view of the river and the town of Tamsui to the east and the farms and field of Pali to the north.
- 2003 May 20, “President Chen Volunteers His Services at Loshan Sanatorium in Pali in Taipei County”, in Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan) (中華民國總統府)‎, archived from the original on 14 October 2022‎:
  Earlier in the day, Chen volunteered his services at Loshan Sanatorium in Pali on the outskirts of Taipei to mark his third anniversary in office.
- 2007 September 21, “Mass fish deaths along Pali coast in Taipei County”, in Focus Taiwan‎, archived from the original on 25 September 2022‎:
  A massive die-off of fish has been discovered along the Pali coast in Taipei County, with a preliminary investigation ascribing the mortality to too much mud and silt in the waters due to recent heavy rains, the county's Environmental Protection Bureau official said Friday.
- 2015 June 29, “Taiwan water park explosion”, in CNN‎, number 2 of 7, archived from the original on 30 July 2015:
  Two men walk at the explosion site of the water park in the Pali district in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on June 28.
- 2021, Cummings, Richard H., “From Radio Liberation to Radio Liberty to RFE/RL”, in Cold War Frequencies: CIA Clandestine Radio Broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe‎, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, LCCN 2021006094, OCLC 1235778538, page 53:
  The initial broadcasts went on the air on shortwave on May 1, 1955, from a transmitter at Panchao^{[sic – meaning Panchiao]}, located just beyond the western edge of the capital city, Taipei. This was an interim location, while a new base was constructed at Pali, on the coast 20 km north of Taipei.
- 2022 March 12, Shamseer Mambra, “8 Major Ports of Taiwan”, in MarineInsight‎, archived from the original on 31 July 2022‎:
  The Taipei port is the biggest container facility in the northern region of Taiwan. Built by reclamation of coastland and comprising an artificial harbour, it is located in Pali close to Keelung port. It was dredged and expanded using innovative technologies to achieve the highest productivity and lower the project’s environmental impact.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pali.

Anagrams

ALIP, Lipa, Piła, lipa, pail, pial, pila

Albanian

Etymology

Pal (Paul) +‎ -i (-(of) the / -s).

Proper noun

Pali m (definite Pali)

nominative singular definite of Pal
genitive singular indefinite of Pal
dative singular indefinite of Pal
ablative singular indefinite of Pal
patronymic form of Pal (“Paul”)

Hungarian

Etymology

From Pál +‎ -i (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpɒli]
Hyphenation: Pa‧li
Rhymes: -li

Proper noun

Pali

a diminutive of the male given name Pál

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Pali	Palik
accusative	Palit	Palikat
dative	Palinak	Paliknak
instrumental	Palival	Palikkal
causal-final	Paliért	Palikért
translative	Palivá	Palikká
terminative	Paliig	Palikig
essive-formal	Paliként	Palikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Paliban	Palikban
superessive	Palin	Palikon
adessive	Palinál	Paliknál
illative	Paliba	Palikba
sublative	Palira	Palikra
allative	Palihoz	Palikhoz
elative	Paliból	Palikból
delative	Paliról	Palikról
ablative	Palitól	Paliktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	Palié	Paliké
non-attributive possessive - plural	Paliéi	Palikéi

Possessive forms of Pali
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Palim	Palijaim
2nd person sing.	Palid	Palijaid
3rd person sing.	Palija	Palijai
1st person plural	Palink	Palijaink
2nd person plural	Palitok	Palijaitok
3rd person plural	Palijuk	Palijaik

Derived terms

pali

[1] Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “Pali”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.