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longi

US/ˈlɔŋˌɡaɪ/

longi is the alternative form of lungi.

longi is the plural of longus.

Meaning of lungi

Noun

lungi (plural lungis)

  1. A garment worn around the waist, especially by men, in Southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan.
    • Samad […] regularly wore a long piece of embroidered grey cotton, a lungi, wrapped round his waist.2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 152
    Synonyms:
    sarong

Meaning of longus

Noun

longus (plural longi)

  1. A long muscle in the body.

Forms of longi

plurallongis

Origin of longi

See lungi.

See longus.

Phrases with longi

Questions about longi

What is longi the alternative form of?
Longi is the alternative form of lungi.
How do you pronounce longi?
Longi is pronounced /ˈlɔŋˌɡaɪ/ (US).

Words near longi in the dictionary

  1. Longhua
  2. longhunter
  3. longhunters
  4. Longhurst
  5. Longhursts
  6. longi
  7. longibornane
  8. longibornanes
  9. longiborneol
  10. longicaudal
  11. longicaudate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: longi (page history and authors); lungi (page history and authors); longus (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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