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Meitei

Meitei noun: a member of a certain ethnic group native to Manipur, India.

Noun

Meitei (plural Meiteis or Meitei)

  1. A member of a certain ethnic group native to Manipur, India.

Adjective

Meitei (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Manipur, its people (the Meitei), its language, its food, or (religion) its traditional form.

Proper noun

Meitei (countable and uncountable, plural Meiteis)

  1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the people of Manipur.
  2. The written form of this language.
  3. A surname.

Meitei meaning in Bengali

Meitei in Bengali

Meitei
মৈতৈ mōitōi

Synonyms of Meitei

Forms of Meitei

Noun
pluralMeiteis
pluralMeitei
alternative formMeetei
alternative formMeithei
Proper noun
pluralMeiteis

Origin of Meitei

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯃꯩꯇꯩ (meitei).

Words formed from Meitei

Phrases with Meitei

Questions about Meitei

What does Meitei mean?
Meitei means a member of a certain ethnic group native to Manipur, India.
What is Meitei in Bengali?
Meitei in Bengali is মৈতৈ (mōitōi). See Meitei meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Meitei?
Meitei can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Meitei?
The plural of Meitei is Meiteis.

Words near Meitei in the dictionary

  1. Meissner oscillators
  2. meister
  3. meisters
  4. meistersinger
  5. meistersingers
  6. Meitei
  7. Meitei Huei
  8. Meitei Hueis
  9. Meitei Hui
  10. Meitei Huis
  11. Meitei studies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Meitei (page history and authors); মৈতৈ (Bengali) (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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