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walis

walis is the plural of wali.

Meaning of wali

Noun (1)

wali (plural walis)

  1. A provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.
    • For much of the last century, the mountainous region of Swat was ruled as a princely kingdom where a benign autocrat, the wali, bestowed schools for girls, health care for everyone and the chance to get a degree abroad for the talented.2007 November 2, Jane Perlez, “Militants Draw New Front Line Inside Pakistan”, in New York Times

Noun (2)

wali (plural walis)

  1. A saint or prophet.
    • You see the shrine was founded in memory of a great Wali, seer, holy man – but apparently a Mohammedan.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 130

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Proper noun capitalized: Walis

Walis

  1. (plural) plural of Wali

Questions about walis

What is walis the plural of?
Walis is the plural of wali.
What part of speech is walis?
Walis is a proper noun.

Words near walis in the dictionary

  1. waling on
  2. waling-waling
  3. walings
  4. walipini
  5. walipinis
  6. walis
  7. waliship
  8. waliships
  9. Waliszew
  10. walk
  11. walk a mile in someone's shoes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: walis (page history and authors); Walis (page history and authors); wali (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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