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Gurung

Gurung noun: a member of a Tibetan ethnic group living in the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal.

Noun

Gurung (plural Gurungs or Gurung)

  1. A member of a Tibetan ethnic group living in the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal.

Proper noun (1)

Gurung

  1. The Sino-Tibetan language of these people.

Proper noun (2)

Gurung (plural Gurungs)

  1. A surname.

Forms of Gurung

Noun
pluralGurungs
pluralGurung
Proper noun
pluralGurungs

Origin of Gurung

From the Nepali surname, from the name of the Gurung people of Nepal, गुरुङ (guruṅ), an exonym itself possibly borrowed from Tibetan.

Questions about Gurung

What does Gurung mean?
Gurung means a member of a Tibetan ethnic group living in the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal.
What part of speech is Gurung?
Gurung can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Gurung?
The plural of Gurung is Gurungs.

Words near Gurung in the dictionary

  1. gurukuls
  2. Gurule
  3. Gurules
  4. gurulike
  5. Gurumurthy
  6. Gurung
  7. Gurungs
  8. Gurunsi
  9. gurus
  10. guruship
  11. guruships

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