What is meaning of "kholi?

[gonghoujun]

Dear Teachers,
Here is a sentence:
A mother is devastated, she is howling with pain, yelling all she can in that dark and dingy corner of her four by four kholi. There was nobody to hear her yell and not a soul to pacify her, because outside her shack is a long winding lonely road.
I do not know meaning of 'kholi'. Help explain it, please. Thanks.

 

[Tdol]

From the context, I assume it means the same as 'shack' in the next sentence, but it's not not a word I have seen and it's not in my dictionaries. Which country is this text set in?

 

[gonghoujun]

Thank Administrator Tdol very much for your kind reply! I don't know which country it is. But you can see this link: Another man's folly

 

[emsr2d2]

Thank Administrator Tdol very much for your kind reply! I don't know which country it is. But you can see this link: Another man's folly

The two names used in the short story (Radha and Aryan) are both Indian names of Hindu origin.

I couldn't find the word listed online either, though there are plenty of listings for kohli instead!

 

[Grammar_Nazi]

Define: 'Kholi'
Choli (Χόλη) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 7 km south of Polis Chrysochous.

 

[Raymott]

Define: 'Kholi'
Choli (Χόλη) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 7 km south of Polis Chrysochous.

Is it four by four with dingy corners?

 

[bertietheblue]

The closest I got searching for 'kholi' and 'India' was the Koli community:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolis

There's also a 'koli dress' worn by women in the community, and I suppose if it's a big wrap-around dress, 4' by 4' and, er ... Nah, falls apart on that dark and dingy corner. Oh well, I tried!

 

[Raymott]

खोली (kholi) means 'opened' in Hindi.
Maybe it's a one of those three-walled shops.
Anyhow, I'm sure one of our Indian friends could help.

 

[BobK]

:up: Because Indian consonant systems are so rich in comparison with ours, H is often used in transliterations - often inconsistently. I recently came across a paragraph in which 'Ghandi', 'Gandhi', and 'Ghandhi' all appeared within a few lines - and this was in a coursebook for an Open University course about language (a pretty literate typo!)

Someone'll know - we just have to wait...

b

 

[Jaskin]

hi,

I' not a native speaker nor a teacher, Just like to do some research

"He’s a carpenter’s apprentice in Mumbai and already has a “kholi” (slum shack). Soon enough he hopes to accumulate enough to venture on his own."

Cheers

 

[gonghoujun]

Last night, I read this post of Subhash Kumar by Google:​

Quote:
Originally Posted by Birdcall

Thank you for the very thorough answer. I read the word "chawl" in an English-language book and the word was meant to mean a slum, but I thought a chaal was a specific type of building, like you said, so I was confused. Is a kholi also a type of house?
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Kholi literally means a room in Marathi. Usually, kholi is also used to represent an "apartment" in a chaaL/chawl.

e.g. I have a kholi on the second floor of this chaaL. ​

You also see this link: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1711689​

 

[gonghoujun]

There is also this word: ‘like a deal soul in a living, rather breathing body’ in that article Another man's folly. But I don’t kown the meaning of a deal soul,especilly ‘deal’. Please explain it, thanks.

 

[BobK]

It looks to me like a typo for 'dead'. The image is rather telling for someone with a Christian culture, as that culture sees the soul as the living 'bit' left when the body dies - dead soul/living body is paradoxical.

b

 

[gonghoujun]

It looks to me like a typo for 'dead'. The image is rather telling for someone with a Christian culture, as that culture sees the soul as the living 'bit' left when the body dies - dead soul/living body is paradoxical.

b

Thank Teacher BobK for your good reply!

 

[mindovermatter]

Kholi is a Marathi or Hindi Word for one room.

 

[gonghoujun]

Kholi is a Marathi or Hindi Word for one room.

Thank Mindovermatter very much for your kind & truthful explanation for kholi because your Native Language is Marathi.