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pali
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pali has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
pali, n.
pali, n. [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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