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mandi

mandi noun: a traditional style of washing oneself in Indonesia and Malaysia, using a small container to scoop water out of a larger container and pour it over the body.

Noun (1)

mandi (uncountable)

  1. (Malaysia) A traditional style of washing oneself in Indonesia and Malaysia, using a small container to scoop water out of a larger container and pour it over the body.

Noun (2)

mandi (plural mandis)

  1. (East, Middle, Yemen, especially, Arabia) A traditional Yemeni culinary dish of spiced meat and rice cooked in a pit. Now a popular staple in most areas of the Arabian Peninsula, it originates from Hadhramaut.

Noun (3)

mandi (plural mandis)

  1. A Mandaean building that serves as a community center and place of worship.

Proper noun capitalized: Mandi

Mandi

  1. A city in Himachal Pradesh, India.
    Synonyms:
    Mandav Nagar
  2. A district of Himachal Pradesh, India.

mandi meaning in Malayalam

mandi in Malayalam

mandi; an Arab rice dish
മന്ദി mandi

Synonyms of mandi

  • Mandav Nagar

Forms of mandi

pluralmandis

Origin of mandi

Unadapted borrowing from Malay mandi (“to take a bath”).

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic مندي (“a Yemeni dish of spiced meat and rice”), itself from the Arabic word ندى (nada), meaning "dew", reflecting the moist ('dewy') texture of the meat.

Borrowed from Hindi मंडी (maṇḍī).

Words formed from mandi

Questions about mandi

What does mandi mean?
Mandi means a traditional style of washing oneself in Indonesia and Malaysia, using a small container to scoop water out of a larger container and pour it over the body.
What is mandi in Malayalam?
Mandi in Malayalam is മന്ദി (mandi). See Mandi meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is mandi?
Mandi can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of mandi?
The plural of mandi is mandis.

Words near mandi in the dictionary

  1. Mandeville
  2. Mandeville North
  3. Mandevillean
  4. Mandevilles
  5. Mandevillian
  6. mandi
  7. Mandi District
  8. Mandia
  9. mandible
  10. mandibles
  11. mandibula

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mandi (page history and authors); Mandi (page history and authors); മന്ദി (Malayalam) (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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