kuli

kuli (plural kulis)

1. Archaic spelling of coolie.

Probably a Polynesian borrowing.

kuli

1. dog

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

kuli m

1. coolie (unskilled Asian worker)

• IPA^(key): /kuli/

kuli

1. dog

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kulit, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiC.

kuli

1. skin (outer covering of the body of a person)

kuli

1. coolie

• ilku, kilu, luki

From Proto-Polynesian *tuli, from Proto-Oceanic *tuli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuli (compare Maori turi, Fijian tuli, Indonesian tuli).

kuli

1. (stative) to be deaf (not hearing)

kuli

1. knee

• IPA^(key): [ˈkuli]
• Hyphenation: ku‧li

kuli (plural kulik)

1. coolie

• kulizik

kuli

1. (anatomy) skin

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.lʲi/

kuli

1. third-person plural masculine personal past of kuć

• (genitive plural) kul

kuli f

1. inflection of kula:
   1. genitive singular
   2. dative singular
   3. locative singular
   4. genitive plural

From Hindi क़ुली (qulī) / Urdu قلی‎ (qulī, “hired laborer, slave”), from Turkish köle. Other forms occur in Bengali kuli and Tamil kuli, "daily hire." The Mandarin word 苦力 (kǔlì), was originally a transcription of the Hindi, and literally means "bitterly hard (use of) strength".

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuli/
• Hyphenation: ku‧li

kuli m (genitive singular kuliho, nominative plural kuliovia, genitive plural kuliov, declension pattern of kuli)

1. coolie

• kuli in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk