kali

Arabic قِلْي‎ (qily). See alkali.

kali (uncountable)

1. The prickly glasswort (Kali turgida, formerly Salsola kali).
   • 1765, Temple H. Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clarke, The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Volume 2

     But the kali is principally regarded, on account of its yielding copiously, when burnt, the fixed alkaline salt called soda […]

Cebuano kamot +‎ lihok

kali (uncountable)

1. Traditional Philippine stick fighting, a martial art.

• Kail, Lika, ilka, kail, kila, laik

kali

1. river

kali

1. building, house.

kali

1. kind of large bird

Cognate to Finnish kalja. Possibly a pre-Balto-Slavic Indo-European loan, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂al-ew-yo-.

kali (genitive kalja, partitive kalja)

1. kvass

• Rhymes: -ɑli

kali

1. potassium
2. potassium oxide

• laki, lika

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali, from Proto-Austronesian *kalih.

kali (used in the form ikali)

1. to dig (to move hard-packed earth out of the way)

• IPA^(key): /ka.li/

kali (plural kali-kali, first-person possessive kaliku, second-person possessive kalimu, third-person possessive kalinya)

1. times

   Aku pergi ke sana dua kali sebulan.

   • I go there twice a month.

   Tiga kali empat sama dengan dua belas.

   • Three times four equals twelve.

2. river

kali

1. 2nd person singular past indicative form of kalt

• IPA^(key): /kali/
• Rhymes: -ali, -li, -i

From Proto-Malayic *kali, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali, from Proto-Austronesian *kalih.

• gali

kali (used in the form mengali)

1. Obsolete form of gali.

• korek

kali

1. river (large stream which drains a landmass)

• alir
• alur
• batang
• bengawan
• ci
• sungai
• wai

kali

1. times

kali

1. to times, to multiply

kali

1. (Waangaybuwan) water
   • 2001, Mood and Modality →ISBN:

     ɡaliː-ŋinda-ɡila ŋiyanu balu-y-aɡa

     water-CARIT-HYPOTH we+PL+NOM die-CM-IRR

     we'll probably die for lack of water

• gali (Wayilwan)

• Barry Alpher, Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004, →ISBN

kali

1. feminine singular of kalo

kali

1. to dig

-kali (declinable)

1. sharp
2. fierce
3. acidic
4. harsh, cruel
5. savage
6. intense

Ultimately from New Latin kalium, with the suffix -um removed as with most chemical elements.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˧ li˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˧ lɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˧ lɪj˧˧]
• Phonetic: ca li

kali

1. potassium