خالی

See also: خالي‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Arabic خَالٍ‎ (ḵālin).

Adjective

خالی • (hali)

empty, devoid
vacant, unoccupied

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

قالی‎ (kalı)

Noun

خالی • (halı)

carpet

Synonyms

كلیم‎ (kilim)

Derived terms

خالی دوشه‌مك‎ (halı döşemek)
خالیجی‎ (halıcı)

Related terms

خالیجه‎ (halıca)

Descendants

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

Persian

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xɑː.liː]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɑː.liː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɑː.liː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xɔː.li]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xɒː.liː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χɔ.li]

Readings
Classical reading^?	xālī
Dari reading^?	xālī
Iranian reading^?	xâli
Tajik reading^?	xoli

Etymology 1

From Arabic خَالٍ‎ (ḵālin).

Adjective


Iranian Persian	خالی‎
Dari	خالی‎
Tajik	холӣ

خالی • (xâli)

empty, devoid
Synonym: تهی‎ (tohi)

‏‎‎ ― bošqâb-e xâli ― empty plate

‏‎ ― xâli az tavahhom ― devoid of imagination; unimaginative
empty, unoccupied
‏‎‎ (at a restaurant) ― in miz xâli šod. ― This table is now available.

‏‎‎ ― jâ-t xâli bud. ― You were missed. (literally, “Your place was empty.”)
(chiefly Dari) merely, only

Derived terms

خالی کردن‎ (xâli kardan)

Descendants

→ Assamese: খালী (khali)
→ Bengali: খালি (khali)
→ Hindustani: xālī
Hindi: ख़ाली
Urdu: خالی‎ (xālī)
- → Phalura: xaalí, خالیۡ‎
→ Sylheti: ꠈꠣꠟꠤ (xáli)
→ Telugu: ఖాళీ (khāḷī)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

خالی • (xâli)

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

Alternative forms

قالی‎ (qâli)

Descendants

→ 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

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɑː.liː/
Audio (PK) (file)
Rhymes: -iː
Hyphenation: خا‧لی

Adjective

خالی • (xālī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़ाली)

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
desolate, deserted, uninhabited
merely, only
devoid

References

“خالی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“خالی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “خالی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo

Noun

خالی (xālī)

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

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