pali

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Noun
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Pa=li

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pali has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

palin. 
     pl. of Palus.  [1913 Webster]
palin. [Ceylonese, fr. Skr. pāli 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pali, n. an Indic language used in the canonical books of Buddhists.

Etymology
Skr. pali-bhasa f. pali canon + bhasa language

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