Chalis

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Chalis or chalisa may refer to:

• The number forty in some South Asian languages including Hindi-Urdu
  • The Chalisa famine that hit South Asia in 1783, which is 1840 in the Vikram Samvat calendar
  • A Hindu hymn (stotra) of forty verses
    • Shiva Chalisa
    • Hanuman Chalisa
    • Ganesha Chalisa

• Stefanos Chalis (1796–1821), a chieftain in the Greek War of Independence