عالی

Borrowed from Arabic عَالٍ (ʕālin).

• Homophone: آلی (âli)

عالی • ('âli) (comparative عالی‌تَر ('âli-tar), superlative عالی‌تَرین ('âli-tarin))

1. sublime, exalted
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume VI, verse 868:

     صورتی کو فاخر و عالی بود / او ز بیت الله کی خالی بود

     surat-i k-u fâxer o âli bovad / u ze beyt-allâh key xâli bovad

     How should the form [of the Perfect Man], which is splendid and sublime, [ever] be absent from the House of God?

2. excellent

   بِسیار عالی اَست. ― besyâr âli ast. ― It's excellent.

From Arabic عَالٍ (ʕālin).

عالِی • ('ālī) (Hindi spelling आली)

1. high, elevated, exalted, eminent, noble, grand, sublime

• Platts, John T. (1884) “عالی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.