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bali

/ˈbɑli/

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What does bali mean?

proper noun

  1. A province of Indonesia, primarily made up of the island of Bali.
  2. An island of Indonesia, just east of Java.
  3. A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
More meanings (4)

proper noun

  1. An island of Papua New Guinea.
  2. The Uneapa language spoken on that island.
  3. An Arab tribe of Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
  4. (obsolete) Obsolete form of Pali.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈbɑli/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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If one of a party dies on the journey, they will stop for one whole day for fear of offending Bali Flaki.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
A variant form of the name possibly begins with Bali.
L. W. (Leonard William) KingLegends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew TraditionProject Gutenberg ebook #2030
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‘Two women, once on a time, came to Fez, bringing with them an exceedingly white donkey, which they placed in the middle of the square called Faz el Bali; they then killed it, and cut it into upwards of thirty pieces.
George BorrowThe Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of SpainProject Gutenberg ebook #565