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Type Country
Usage Manding, Fula, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Uzbek, Persian, Urdu, Sinhalese, Hindi, Chinese, Mongolian, Burmese, Thai, Lao, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog
Scripts مالي(Arabic) Мали(Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Mongolian Cyrillic) Малі(Ukrainian) Μάλι(Greek) מאלי(Hebrew) Մալի(Armenian) მალი(Georgian) Малӣ(Tajik) مالی(Persian, Urdu) මාලි(Sinhala) माली(Hindi) 馬里(Chinese) မာလီ(Burmese) มาลี(Thai) ມາລີ(Lao)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈmaː.liː/(Arabic, Hindi) /ma.li/(French, Chinese) /ma.ˈli/(Portuguese) /ˈmɑː.li/(English) /ˈmɑ.li/(Finnish) /ˈma.li/(Polish) /ˈma.lɪ/(Czech) /mɐ.ˈlʲi/(Russian) /mɑ.ˈli/(Armenian) /mɑ.li/(Georgian) /mɒː.ˈliː/(Persian) /mà.lì/(Burmese) /maː˧.ˈliː˧/(Thai)
Note In Turkish and Azerbaijani this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as MALİ in uppercase and mali in lowercase.
Meaning & History
A landlocked country in West Africa, named after an empire that lasted until the 17th century. The empire's name is possibly from a dialectal variant of the name of the Mande peoples. Alternatively, it could be from the name of the empire's capital (which has not been located) or from a Mande word meaning "hippopotamus".