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gali

/ˈɡʌli/

gali is the alternative form of galee.

Meaning of galee

Noun (1)

galee (uncountable)

  1. (India, obsolete) Abuse; bad language.

Noun (2)

galee (plural galees)

  1. A freeminer who has a gale (personal mining plot).

Noun

gali (plural galis)

  1. (South-Asia) An alleyway or side street.
    • Older boys play gali cricket, while young girls watch them shyly from a distance.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 3

Proper noun capitalized: Gali

Gali (plural Galis)

  1. A surname.

Forms of gali

Noun
pluralgalis
Proper noun
pluralGalis

Origin of gali

Borrowed from Hindustani گَلی (galī) / गली (galī).

Words that rhyme with gali

Questions about gali

What does gali mean?
Gali means an alleyway or side street.
What is gali the alternative form of?
Gali is the alternative form of galee.
What part of speech is gali?
Gali can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gali?
Gali is pronounced /ˈɡʌli/.
What is the plural of gali?
The plural of gali is galis.

Words near gali in the dictionary

  1. Galgano
  2. Galganos
  3. Galgate
  4. galge
  5. Galguduud
  6. gali
  7. Galia
  8. Galiano
  9. Galianos
  10. Galias
  11. Galibi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gali (page history and authors); Gali (page history and authors); galee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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