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Mansi

Syllables: Man·si/ˈmænsi/

Mansi noun: a member of an ethnic group of people who live in Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug.

Noun

Mansi (plural Mansis or Mansi)

  1. A member of an ethnic group of people who live in Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug.
    • A small Mansi population has also lived up to the present day on the western slopes of the Ural mountains.2022, Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages

Proper noun

Mansi

  1. The Uralic language spoken by these people, now more often considered a group of closely related languages.
    • The languages of the other three branches – Mansi, Khanty and Samoyed – are or were spoken in Siberia, but the area of Tundra Nenets in the Samoyed branch extends to the west of the Ural mountains, and the area of Southern Mansi also originally covered parts of Europe.2010, Christopher Moseley, editor, Atlas of the world's languages in danger
    Synonyms:
    Vogul

Synonyms of Mansi

Forms of Mansi

pluralMansis
pluralMansi

Origin of Mansi

Borrowed from Northern Mansi Ма̄ньси (Mānʹsi).

Questions about Mansi

What does Mansi mean?
Mansi means a member of an ethnic group of people who live in Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug.
What part of speech is Mansi?
Mansi can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Mansi?
Mansi is pronounced /ˈmænsi/.
What is the plural of Mansi?
The plural of Mansi is Mansis.

Words near Mansi in the dictionary

  1. manshift
  2. manshifts
  3. manship
  4. manshiply
  5. Manships
  6. Mansi
  7. mansicle
  8. mansicles
  9. Mansilla
  10. Mansillas
  11. mansing

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