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lisi

lisi noun: a canoe of the Solomon Islands.

Noun (1)

lisi

  1. (rare) A canoe of the Solomon Islands.
    • Details of a lisi type canoe, Santa Anna, Solomon Islands1937, Alfred Cort Haddon, James Hornell, Canoes of Oceania (page 90)

Noun (2) capitalized: Lisi

Lisi pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A member of any of three closely associated Chadian ethnic groups of mainly agricultural Muslims.

Proper noun capitalized: Lisi

Lisi (plural Lisis)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Forms of lisi

pluralLisis

Origin of lisi

Borrowed from Italian and Sicilian Lisi.

Questions about lisi

What does lisi mean?
Lisi means a canoe of the Solomon Islands.
What part of speech is lisi?
Lisi can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near lisi in the dictionary

  1. Lishi
  2. lishizhenite
  3. lishmah
  4. Lishu
  5. Lishui
  6. lisi
  7. lisianthus
  8. lisianthuses
  9. Lisiecki
  10. Lisieckis
  11. Lisieux

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