خیلی

adverb

1. very

adjective

1. many of

   “خیلی از دوستام فیلمای آمریکایی رو دوست دارن.”

2. ↑ According to Dehkhoda, the semantic shift is from Saadi Shirazi's Gulistān: 1258, Saadi Shirazi, Gulistan:اندک اندک خیلی شود و قطره قطره سیلی گرددandak-andak xaylē šawad wa qatra-qatra saylē gardadBit by bit it becomes an army and drop by drop it becomes a flood

3. ↑ “Intro to Tajik Persian”, in Persian Language Online‎, 12 June 2020: “Tajik хеле/ḫele may be more intense than бисёр/bisyār, where as the Iranian خیلی/ḫeylī is less intense than بسیار/besyār. The classical pronunciation of خیلی is ḫaylē, which has not been retained by the common pronunciation of either varieties.”

4. ↑ “خیلی”, in قاموس کبیر افغانستان [qāmūs-i kabīr-i afġānistān, The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan] (in Persian), Afghan Dictionary, 2023