As a Hindi name
गालि · noun · feminine
गाली — Śabdasāgara
गालि · gāli · s.f.
Curse, imprecation, execration (cf. next) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 892
गाना · masculine
song
गाना
to sing
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit गान — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit गान (gāna). Cognate with Assamese গান (gan), Bengali গান (gan), Gujarati ગાણું (gāṇũ), Marathi गाणे (gāṇe), Punjabi ਗਾਣਾ (gāṇā). Doublet of गान (gān), a tatsama.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
gāna n. singing, song, KātyŚr.; Lāṭy. i, vii; Hariv. 11793; Śiś. ix, 54
a sound, L. (cf. araṇya-, ūha-, ūhya-.)
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit गायति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit गायति (gāyati), from the root गै (gai, “to sing”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
pl. reviling speech, invectives, execrations
Verified derivationMultiple readings (6)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gāli" is the vocative of "gālī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
gāli f. pl. reviling speech, invectives, execrations, Bhartṛ.; Rājat. vi, 157.
gāli &c. See 2. gālana.
gāli m. (-liḥ) A curse, execration or imprecation. E. gala in the causal form, to cause to drop, and in aff.
gālī f. pl. = ˚li, Rājat. vii, 1172.
Alternative readings
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