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Wali vs Walm - What's the difference?

wali | walm |

As a noun wali

is a provincial governor in certain islamic countries.

As a verb walm is

to roll; to spout; to boil up.

wali

English

Alternative forms

* * (l) (via Turkish)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 citation
    • , 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. }}

    walm

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To roll; to spout; to boil up.
    • (Holland)
  • * 1845 (?), A view of Devonshire in 1630, with a Pedigree of most of its gentry , page 344:
    • It serveth the inhabitants with fresh water walming out of springs, though itself be on all sides circumpassed about with the sea.
  • * 1905 , The Myths of Plato , page 442:

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