heli

See also: Heli, hélǐ, heli-, and héli-

English

Noun

heli (plural helis)

1. Clipping of helicopter.
   • 1990 September, “Helicopter section”, in Model Airplane News, page 91:

     HERE’S A GREAT shot of our author Dave Ramsey, who seems to be doing the impossible—flying two helis simultaneously! Actually, he isnt’t; a flying buddy maneuvered his machine into the shot, just to create the illusion.

   • 2010, Bob Shepherd, M. P. Sabga, The Infidel, Simon & Schuster, published 2011, →ISBN, page 175:

     ‘We saw two helis flying north a few weeks back,’ John offered. ‘An Apache and a Chinook. We figured they were hunting al-Qaeda.’

   • 2011, Chris Ryan, Killing for the Company, Coronet, →ISBN, page 308:

     Two helis, both coming in sharp and from a great height. One looked like a Puma; the other, smaller and hovering just above and behind in a chaperone position, was clearly an Apache.

Synonyms

• copter

Related terms

• -copter (and derivatives therefrom)
• heli- (and derivatives therefrom)

Catalan

Chemical element
He
Previous: hidrogen (H)
Next: liti (Li)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɛ.li]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Noun

heli m (uncountable)

1. helium

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of helikopter.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɦeːli/
• Hyphenation: he‧li

Noun

heli m (plural heli's, diminutive helietje n)

1. chopper

Estonian

Etymology

Same root as in hele. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

heli (genitive heli, partitive heli)

1. sound
2. (music) note, tone

Declension

Declension of heli (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		heli	helid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	heli
genitive			helide
partitive		heli	helisid
illative		helli helisse	helidesse
inessive		helis	helides
elative		helist	helidest
allative		helile	helidele
adessive		helil	helidel
ablative		helilt	helidelt
translative		heliks	helideks
terminative		helini	helideni
essive		helina	helidena
abessive		helita	helideta
comitative		heliga	helidega

Derived terms

• helikaart
• helilaad
• helilaine
• helilooja

Further reading

• “heli”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Middle English

Adjective

heli

1. (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of holy (sacred)

Salar

Alternative forms

• helli

Etymology

From Mongolian гуул (guul), гуули (guuli, “copper”).

Pronunciation

• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /heli/, /helli/
• (Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /heːle/
• (Dazhuang, Mengda, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /xeːli/
• (Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /hælli/, /hællæ/, /helle/

Noun

heli

1. money

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “heli”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 224, 333
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “heli”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[2], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 11
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “heli”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[3], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, pages 111-112
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “heli”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 133
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “heli”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 280

Swahili

Noun

heli (n class, plural heli)

1. Alternative form of heliamu (“helium”)

Tetum

Verb

heli

1. to hide

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *keli, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *keli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali, from Proto-Austronesian *kalih.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣeli/

Verb

heli

1. to dig

Further reading

• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.

Vietnamese

Chemical element
He
Previous: hiđro (H)
Next: liti (Li)

Etymology

Ultimately from New Latin helium, with the suffix -um removed as with most chemical elements.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [he˧˧ li˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hej˧˧ lɪj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [hej˧˧ lɪj˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: hê li

Noun

heli

1. helium

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sālos (“salt water”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈheːli/, /ˈhɛli/

Noun

heli m (not mutable)

1. salt water, brine, saline

   Synonym: dŵr hallt

Derived terms

• cors heli (“salt marsh”)
• cyweirio â heli (“to brine”)
• dŵr heli (“saline water”)
• glas yr heli (“sea milkwort, Glaux maritima”)
• gwastad heli (“salt flat”)
• heli ffisiolegol (“physiological saline”)
• heli ffosffad byfferog (“buffered saline phosphate”)
• helïaidd (“salty, briny, brackish”)
• heligog (“guillemot”)
• lagŵn heli (“salt lagoon”)
• malw yr heli (“tree mallow, Lavatera arborea”)
• morfa heli (“salt marsh”)
• pant heli (“salt pan”)
• perllys yr heli (“wild celery, Apium graveolens”)
• prawf heli (“brine test”)
• pwll heli (“salt pool, brine pit”)

 

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “heli”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies