uli

See also: Appendix:Variations of "uli"

Translingual

Symbol

uli

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ulithian.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ulithian terms

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈli/ [ʔʊˈlɪ]
• Hyphenation: u‧li

Determiner

ulí

1. (Southern Afar) a certain; some

   Synonym: (Northern Afar) wilí

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 236
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Bikol Central

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *ulíq (“return, restore”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uliq (“return home; return something; restore, repair; repeat; motion to and from”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔuˈliʔ/ [ʔuˈl̪iʔ]
• Hyphenation: u‧li

Verb

ulî (plural uruli, Basahan spelling ᜂᜎᜒ)

1. to return an item to its original holder

   Synonyms: balik, buwelta

2. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) to return home, go home; to take something home

   Synonym: puli

Derived terms

• i-uli
• mag-uli
• pauli
• uli-uli
• ulian

Noun

ulî (Basahan spelling ᜂᜎᜒ)

1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item; change

   Synonym: sukli

Derived terms

• mag-uli
• ulian

See also

• kuwarta
• piso
• sensilyo
• sentabo
• sentimo

Cebuano

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *ulíq (“return, restore”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uliq (“return home; return something; restore, repair; repeat; motion to and from”).

Pronunciation 1

• Hyphenation: u‧li
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔuliʔ/ [ˈʔu.l̪ɪʔ]

Verb

ulì (Badlit spelling ᜂᜎᜒ)

1. to return

   Synonyms: balik, buwelta

Derived terms

• i-uli
• ulian

Pronunciation 2

• Hyphenation: u‧li
• IPA^(key): /ʔuˈliʔ/ [ʔʊˈl̪iʔ]

Verb

ulî (Badlit spelling ᜂᜎᜒ)

1. to return home; to go home

Derived terms

• mouli
• pauli

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.li/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *quli (“black, dark in colour”). Cognate with Maori uri (“dark-coloured”), Tahitian uri (“blackish, discoloured”).

Verb

uli(stative)

1. having any dark color (blue, green, black, etc.)
2. black and blue (colored like a bruise)

   uli ka maka ― a black eye

Usage notes

Has negative connotations, in contrast to hiwa, which denotes a kind of pure black which was considered auspicious for sacrifices.

Derived terms

• hāuli (“blackish”)
• hoʻouli (“darken”, verb)
• ʻōuli (“omen”)
• uliuli (“dark color”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *quli (“to steer a vessel”), from Proto-Oceanic *quliñ (“to steer; rudder”).

Verb

uli

1. (transitive) to steer

Noun

uli

1. steersman

Further reading

• uli in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.