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wadi

/ˈwɑdi/

wadi noun: a valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

wadi: a valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during...
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Noun

wadi (plural wadis or wadies)

  1. A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
    • Near-synonyms: nahal, wash, dry wash, arroyo (synonymous other than regiolectal specificity)
    Synonyms:
    nahal, wash, dry wash, arroyo[regiolect

Proper noun capitalized: Wadi

Wadi

  1. A town in Kalaburagi district, Karnataka, India.
  2. A city in Nagpur district, Maharashtra, India.

wadi meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

wadi in Tamil

வறண்ட ஆற்றுப்படுகை

wadi in Indonesian

a valley, gully, or stream-bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season
wadi

Synonyms of wadi

Forms of wadi

pluralwadis
pluralwadies

Plural of wadi: wadis or wadies

Origin of wadi

Borrowed from Arabic وَادِي, وَادٍ (wādī, wādin, “valley, riverbed, ravine”).

Phrases with wadi

Questions about wadi

What does wadi mean?
Wadi means a valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
What is wadi in Tamil?
Wadi in Tamil is வறண்ட ஆற்றுப்படுகை. See Wadi meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wadi?
Wadi can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce wadi?
Wadi is pronounced /ˈwɑdi/.
What is the plural of wadi?
The plural of wadi is wadis.

Words near wadi in the dictionary

  1. Wadhurst
  2. Wadhwa
  3. Wadhwani
  4. Wadhwanis
  5. Wadhwas
  6. wadi
  7. Wadi Gaza
  8. Wadi Halfa
  9. Wadi Hammamat
  10. wadies
  11. wading

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wadi (page history and authors); Wadi (page history and authors); wadi (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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