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Ali

Ali

See also: ali, áli, alî, Alì, ali-, and -ali

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑːli

Proper noun

Ali (plural Alis)

  1. A male given name.
  2. The Muslim caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib, considered by Shias to be Muhammad's successor.
  3. A surname found among Muslims.
Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -æli

Proper noun

Ali (plural Alis)

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Alison/Allison or its variants; compare Allie.

Anagrams


Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Arabic عَلِيّ (ʿaliyy).

Proper noun

Ali ?

  1. A male given name, equivalent to Ali.

Anagrams


Finnish

Etymology

From Arabic عَلِيّ (ʿaliyy) as a Muslim name. Also a rare diminutive form of Finnish Aleksanteri.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑli
  • IPA(key): [ˈɑli]
  • Hyphenation: A‧li

Proper noun

Ali

  1. A male given name.

Declension

Inflection of Ali (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative Ali Alit
genitive Alin Alien
partitive Alia Aleja
illative Aliin Aleihin
singular plural
nominative Ali Alit
accusative nom. Ali Alit
gen. Alin
genitive Alin Alien
partitive Alia Aleja
inessive Alissa Aleissa
elative Alista Aleista
illative Aliin Aleihin
adessive Alilla Aleilla
ablative Alilta Aleilta
allative Alille Aleille
essive Alina Aleina
translative Aliksi Aleiksi
instructive Alein
abessive Alitta Aleitta
comitative Aleineen

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese Ali, from Arabic عَلِيّ (ʿaliyy).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ali m

  1. A male given name, equivalent to English Ali

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic عَلِيّ (ʿaliyy).

Proper noun

Ali

  1. A male given name

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عَلِيّ (ʿaliyy).

Proper noun

Ali

  1. A male given name.

ali

ali

See also: Ali, áli, alî, Alì, ali-, and -ali

Finnish

(index al)

Postposition

ali (+ genitive, shorter form for alitse)

  1. beneath, underneath (when one goes through the space that is underneath something):
    Pallo pyöri tuolin ali ja ovesta ulos.
    The ball rolled underneath the chair and out of the door.

Inflection

Synonyms

  • (beneath, underneath) alitse

Antonyms

Related terms


Gorontalo

Noun

ali

  1. a hole sunk into the ground as a source of water or other fluids; well.

Icelandic

Noun

ali

  1. indefinite accusative plural of alur

Italian

Noun

ali f

  1. plural of ala

Verb

ali

  1. second-person singular present indicative of alare
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of alare
  3. second-person singular present subjunctive of alare
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of alare
  5. third-person singular imperative of alare

Anagrams


Latin

Verb

alī

  1. present passive infinitive of alō

Lavukaleve

Noun

ali m

  1. man

O'odham

Noun

ali (plural a'al)

  1. child, baby

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • aly (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese ali, aly, from Latin ad illic.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.ˈli/
  • Hyphenation: a‧li

Adverb

ali (not comparable)

  1. there (far from both the speaker and the audience)

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:ali.

Synonyms

Usage notes

Usually ali implies a nearer position than .

See also

Portuguese demonstratives (edit)
Pronouns Adverbs
Singular Plural Neuter
Masculine Feminine Masculine Feminine
Proximal X este esta estes estas isto aqui,
de + X deste desta destes destas disto daqui
em + X neste nesta nestes nestas nisto
Medial X esse essa esses essas isso
de + X desse dessa desses dessas disso daí
em + X nesse nessa nesses nessas nisso
Distal X aquele aquela aqueles aquelas aquilo ali,
de + X daquele daquela daqueles daquelas daquilo dali
em + X naquele naquela naqueles naquelas naquilo
a + X àquele àquela àqueles àquelas àquilo

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ali, *ale.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /âli/
  • Hyphenation: a‧li

Conjunction

ȁli (Cyrillic spelling а̏ли)

  1. but
  2. however
  3. (Croatia) or, if

Synonyms


Slovene

Pronunciation 1

The second pronunciation is used in the second sense.

  • IPA(key): /ˈáli/, /ˈáːli/
  • Tonal orthography: ȁli, ȃli

Conjunction

àli or áli

  1. or
  2. (ali ... ali) either ... or

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ali/
  • Tonal orthography: ali

Particle

ali

  1. Introduces a yes-no question.