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Mehri

Mehri noun: a Semitic ethnic group primarily inhabiting South Arabia and the Guardafui Channel island of Socotra.

Noun

Mehri pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A Semitic ethnic group primarily inhabiting South Arabia and the Guardafui Channel island of Socotra.

Proper noun

Mehri

  1. A Modern South Arabian language spoken in Yemen, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.

Forms of Mehri

alternative formMahri

Origin of Mehri

From Mehri مهريّت (Mehri), from مَهْرَة (mahra, “Mahra”).

Questions about Mehri

What does Mehri mean?
Mehri means a Semitic ethnic group primarily inhabiting South Arabia and the Guardafui Channel island of Socotra.
What part of speech is Mehri?
Mehri can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Mehri in the dictionary

  1. Mehras
  2. Mehrauli
  3. Mehrdad
  4. Mehrer
  5. Mehrers
  6. Mehri
  7. mehrieh
  8. Mehring
  9. Mehringer
  10. Mehringers
  11. Mehrings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mehri (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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