[4] According to Michael C. Astour, Haldi could be etymologically related to the Hurrian word "heldi", meaning "high".

[5] An alternate theory postulates that the name could be of Indo-European (possibly Helleno-Armenian) or Old Armenian origin, meaning "sun god" (compare with Hellenic Helios and Roman Sol).

The Urartian Kings used to erect steles dedicated to Ḫaldi in which they inscribed the successes of their military campaigns, the buildings built, and also the agricultural activities that took place during their reign.

In 1963, Margarete Riemschneider proposed that Ḫaldi was "pictureless" and never depicted in Uratian imagery, and suggested that he was symbolized by a lance.

Zimansky (2012) wrote that he had been a skeptic of this theory, but and suggested that one image, of a man surrounded by flames leading a pantheon of gods into battle, might represent the king – a "mortal agent ... empowered by the divine".