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From Arabic وَالٍ (wālī).
والی • (vâli)
- a governor of a large province
- Synonym: (archaic) پادوسبان (pâdusbân)
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “والی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim