خالی

See also: خالي

Ottoman Turkish

خالی

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قالی (qalı), from Persian خالی (xâli, “carpet”), itself from Old Armenian Կարին (Karin), a city which was famed for rugs.

Alternative forms

• قالی (kalı)

Noun

خالی • (halı)

1. carpet, a fabric used as a complete floor covering

   Synonym: كلیم (kilim)

Derived terms

• خالی دوشه‌مك (halı döşemek, “to carpet”)
• خالیجی (halıcı, “carpetmaker”)
• خالیچه (halıça, “small Turket carpet”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: halı
• → Albanian: halli
• → Bulgarian: халия (halija)
• → Greek: χαλί (chalí)
• → Persian: خالی (xâli)
  • Middle Armenian: խալի (xali)
    • Armenian: խալի (xali)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ха̀лија

  Latin script: hàlija

• → Zazaki: xali

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “halı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1849
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “خالی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 204b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خالی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 529
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tapes”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1649
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خالی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1844
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “halı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خالی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 825

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic خَالٍ (ḵālin, “empty, void”), a derivation from the verb خَلَا (ḵalā, “to be empty, to be free”).

Adjective

خالی • (hali)

1. empty, void, devoid of content, containing nothing or nobody

   Synonym: بوش (boş)

2. vacant, unoccupied, not being used or not being inhabited

   Synonym: منحل (münhall)

Derived terms

• خالی اولمق (hali olmak, “to be empty, void”)
• خالی براقمق (hali bırakmak, “to leave empty”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: hali

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hali1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1849
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hâlî”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[6] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 379
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خالی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 529
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vacuus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[8], Vienna, column 1710
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خالی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 1844
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hali”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خالی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 825

Persian

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal) 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

Dari	خالی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	холӣ

خالی • (xâli)

1. empty, devoid

   Synonym: تهی (tohi)

   بشقاب خالی ― bošqâb-e xâli ― empty plate

   خالی از توهّم ― xâli az tavahhom ― devoid of imagination; unimaginative

2. empty, unoccupied

   این میز خالی شد. (at a restaurant) ― in miz xâli šod. ― This table is now available.

   جات خالی بود. ― jâ-t xâli bud. ― You were missed. (literally, “Your place was empty.”)

3. (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)

1. 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
  • → Albanian: halli
  • → Bulgarian: халия (halija)
  • → Greek: χαλί (chalí)
  • → Persian: خالی (xâli)
    • Middle Armenian: խալի (xali)
      • Armenian: խալի (xali)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ха̀лија

    Latin script: hàlija

  • → Zazaki: xali

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɑː.liː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: خا‧لی

Adjective

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

1. 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

2. desolate, deserted, uninhabited
3. merely, only
4. 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], 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)

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