Wai vs Wali - What's the difference?
wai | wali |
A Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow.
(label) why (a purposeful misspelling)
indeed
fresh water
A provincial governor in certain Islamic countries.
*1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, page 130:
*:You see the shrine was founded in memory of a great Wali , seer, holy man – but apparently a Mohammedan.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 2, author=Jane Perlez, title=Militants Draw New Front Line Inside Pakistan, work=New York Times
, passage=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. }}
As a noun wali is
a provincial governor in certain islamic countries.wai
English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Phonetic respelling of why.Adverb
(-)Anagrams
* * ---- ==Aka-Bea==Adverb
(head)References
* Edward Horace Man, A Dictionary of the South Andaman (Aka-Bea) language (1923) ---- =='Are'are==Noun
(head)Antonyms
*References
* Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary ----wali
English
Alternative forms
* * (l) (via Turkish)Noun
(en noun)citation