خالی

From Arabic خَالٍ‎ (ḵālin).

خالی • (hali)

1. empty, devoid
2. vacant, unoccupied

From Old Anatolian Turkish قالی‎ (qalı), from Persian خالی‎ (xâli).

• قالی‎ (kalı)

خالی • (halı)

1. carpet

• كلیم‎ (kilim)

• خالی دوشه‌مك‎ (halı döşemek)
• خالیجی‎ (halıcı)

• خالیجه‎ (halıca)

• Turkish: halı
• → Persian: خالی‎ (xâli)
  • Middle Armenian: խալի (xali)
    • Armenian: խալի (xali)
• → Bulgarian: халия (halija)
• → Greek: χαλί (chalí)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ха̀лија

  Latin script: hàlija

• → Zazaki: xali

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /xɑːliː/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /xɒːliː/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /xɒːliː/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /xɔːliː/

From Arabic خَالٍ‎ (ḵālin).

خالی • (xâli)

1. empty, devoid

   Synonym: تهی‎ (tohi)

   ‏بشقاب خالی‎ ― bošqâb-e xâli ― empty plate

   ‏خالی از توهّم‎ ― xâli az tavahhom ― devoid of imagination; unimaginative

2. empty, unoccupied

   ‏این میز خالی شد.‎‎ (at a restaurant) ― in miz xâli šod. ― This table is now empty.

   ‏جات خالی بود.‎‎ ― jâ-t xâli bud. ― You were missed. (literally, “Your place was empty.”)

• خالی کردن‎ (xâli kardan)

• → Assamese: খালী (khali)
• → Bengali: খালি (khali)
• → Hindustani: xālī

  Hindi: ख़ाली

  Urdu: خالی‎

  • → Phalura: xaalí, خالیۡ‎

• → Sylheti: ꠈꠣꠟꠤ (xáli)
• → Telugu: ఖాళీ (khāḷī)

From Old Armenian Կարին (Karin), a city which, spelled in Arabic قَالِيقَلَا‎ (qālīqalā), was famed for rugs. Compare Arabic زَرْبِيَّة‎ (zarbiyya, “rug”) supposedly being from the name of Azerbaijan.

Carpets

خالی • (xâli)

1. carpet

   Synonyms: فرش‎ (farš), قالیچه‎ (qâliče), تنبسه‎ (tanbase), گلیم‎ (gelim)

• قالی‎ (qâli)

• → Middle Armenian: խալի (xali)
  • Armenian: խալի (xali)
• → Azerbaijani: xalı, xalça
• → Ottoman Turkish: خالی‎ (halı), قالی‎ (kalı)
  • Turkish: halı
  • → Persian: خالی‎ (xâli)
    • Middle Armenian: խալի (xali)
      • Armenian: խալի (xali)
  • → Bulgarian: халия (halija)
  • → Greek: χαλί (chalí)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ха̀лија

    Latin script: hàlija

  • → Zazaki: xali

Borrowed from Classical Persian خالی‎ (xâlī), from Arabic خَالٍ‎ (ḵālin).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɑː.liː/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /xɑː.liː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: خا‧لی

خالی • (transliteration needed) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़ाली)

1. empty, vacant

   ‏ایک خالی ڈبہ‎ ― ek xālī ḍabbā ― an empty box

   ‏وہ خالی ہاتھ لوٹ آیا‎ ― vo xālī hāth lauṭ āyā ― he returned empty-handed

2. desolate, deserted, uninhabited
3. merely, only

• “خالی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “خالی”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

خالی (xālī)

1. Dhu al-Qa'dah, the eleventh month of the Islamic calendar