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chunnis

chunnis is the plural of chunni.

Meaning of chunni

Noun

chunni (plural chunnis)

  1. Synonym of dupatta – a long scarf worn by South Asian women.
    • Her head was covered with a green and yellow bandhani chunni which was tucked into the cleavage of her blouse.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 1
    Synonyms:
    dupatta

Questions about chunnis

What is chunnis the plural of?
Chunnis is the plural of chunni.

Words near chunnis in the dictionary

  1. chunner
  2. chunnered
  3. chunnering
  4. chunners
  5. chunni
  6. chunnis
  7. Chunns
  8. Chunqiu
  9. chunri
  10. chunris
  11. Chuns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chunnis (page history and authors); chunni (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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