खाली khālī

ख़ाली ḵẖālī ḳḥa:li: (a) empty, vacant; unoccupied; blank; unemployed; unaccented beat (in music); ineffective (e.g. वार—जाना) fallow; only; mere (e.g. —बात); only; —करना to vacate, to empty; to evacuate; —जगह vacancy; —जाना (वार) to miss the mark; —जेब empty pocket, penniless; —पेट empty stomach; —बैठना to be idle, to be unemployed; —हाथ empty-handed; unarmed; —हाथ लौटना to draw a blank, to return empty-handed, to fail in one's mission.

A خالي ḵẖālī (fr. خلو 'to be or become empty,' &c.), adj. Empty, vacant, void, desert; hollow, having nothing in it, blank, not filled up, not full; unoccupied, unemployed, free; exempt (from, -se); devoid, destitute (of); — without effect, ineffective, inoperative; — pure, unmingled; mere, only, sole, single, unaccompanied; — adv. Alone, by oneself, singly; — idly, unemployed; — s.m. (?), The month between the festivals of ʻīd and bakar ʻīd (so called on account of no festival occurring during that period).