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Pali

Pali \Pa"li\, n. [Ceylonese, fr. Skr. p[=a]li row, line, series, applied to the series of Buddhist sacred texts.] A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.

Pali

Pali \Pa"li\, n., pl. of Palus.

Pali

Palus \Pa"lus\, n.; pl. Pali. [L., a stake.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Pali

1690s, Middle High Indian dialect used in sacred Buddhist writings (the lingua franca of northern India from c. 6c. B.C.E.-2c. B.C.E.), from Sanskrit Pali, from pali bhasa "language of the canonical books," from pali "line, role, canon" + bhasa "language."

Wiktionary
pali

n. (palus English)

Wikipedia
Páli

Páli is a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary.

Pali (disambiguation)

Pali is a Middle Indo-Aryan language.

Pali may also refer to:

Pali (Lok Sabha constituency)

Pali Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 25 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Rajasthan state in western India.

Pali (Rajasthan Assembly constituency)

Pali (Rajasthan Assembly constituency) is a constituency of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly in the Pali district.

Year

Name of Elected M.L.A.

Party Affiliation

1. 1957

Mool Chand

Indian National Congress

2. 1962

Kesri singh

SWA

3. 1967

M. Chand

Indian National Congress

4. 1972

Shankar Lal

Indian National Congress

5. 1977

Mool Chand Daga

Indian National Congress

6. 1980

Manak Lal Mehta

Indian National Congress

7. 1985

Pushpa

Bharatiya Janata Party

8. 1990

Pusp Jain

Bharatiya Janata Party

9. 1993

Bhim Raj Bhati

Independent

10. 1998

Gyan Chand Parakh

Bharatiya Janata Party

11. 2003

Gyan Chand Parakh

Bharatiya Janata Party

12. 2008

Gyan Chand Parakh

Bharatiya Janata Party

13. 2013

Gyan Chand Parakh

Bharatiya Janata Party

Usage examples of "pali".

Meanwhile, the king and queen had been stricken with a wasting illness from which diviners said they could only recover if Pali Kongju would aid them by fetching the medicinal water from the Western Sky.

But the god of the mountains found Pali Kongju and told her of her duty.

Nearly falling to hell from the cliffs above it, Pali Kongju struggled on until she found the ugly Guardian Armed Guard at the well of heaven.

During the kut, the danced ritual that is the heart of their religion, the mudang often don a stripe-sleeved multicolored robe and tell the tale of Pali Kongju as an incantation and an inspiration.

He was grateful when a storm flowed down Nuuanu valley, a gray mist, and washed the dust from him in a five-minute torrent before receding once again to wreath the Pali peaks.

A few steps from the belt, and above him, was the plastic lip of Pali No.

Five minutes later, he stepped off onto the sidewalk and walked into the cavernous entrance of Pali No.

At Pali House the members of the crew were making arrangements to go back to the mainland.

And that was when, as she said during her crying jag after the party at Pali House, everything ended.

And in the morning Jillian was driven from Pali House by guilt and revulsion.

Na Pali Coast, dear, which is the most beautiful stretch of shoreline you could ever imagine.

The Buddha generally used Pali because he wanted to be understood by the masses.

There were four childrena son, Wallace, twin daughters, Sandri and Pali, and the youngest, a daughter called Nandira.

And on the afternoon that Charmian and I climbed the two-thousand-foot pali and looked our last upon the Settlement, the superintendent, the doctors, and the mixture of nationalities and of diseased and nondiseased were all engaged in an exciting baseball game.

Landing on the leeward side of Molokai, he sneaked down the pali one night and took up his abode in the Settlement.