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say it: WAH-dee
wadi is a noun meaning "gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season". It carries one recorded sense.
gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wadi come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.