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fundis

fundis is the plural of fundi.

Meaning of fundi

Noun (1)

fundi (plural fundis)

  1. (South Africa, Zimbabwe) A master of a particular skill; an expert.
    • Alas I our small office staff boasted no bird fundi and the bird remained unindentified.1972, The Rhodesia Science News, volume 6, page 358

Noun (2)

fundi (plural fundis)

  1. (Africa, East) A person who repairs and maintains things; mechanic, repairer.
    • The air compressor sends off quite a large blast of air, sending dust skyward, as the air drilling begins. The driller's compressor remains in the backyard in Morogoro town, as the fundi mechanic works to put it back together again.2018 May 18, Bob Nicol, My Name Is Deliverer, LifeRich Publishing, →ISBN

Noun (3)

fundi (uncountable)

  1. The African cereal plant Digitaria exilis.

Questions about fundis

What is fundis the plural of?
Fundis is the plural of fundi.

Words near fundis in the dictionary

  1. fundiloon
  2. fundiloons
  3. funding
  4. funding liquidity risk
  5. fundings
  6. fundis
  7. fundless
  8. fundlessness
  9. fundoplasties
  10. fundoplasty
  11. fundoplication

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fundis (page history and authors); fundi (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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