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Nakhi

Nakhi noun: an ethnic group centered in the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Province in China.

Noun

Nakhi pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An ethnic group centered in the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Province in China.
    • I wanted to know if the Nakhi folktales were different, given that they originated in a matriarchal society. Mu Ji Xin. a Nakhi friend, helped me find a collection of tales that had been translated from Nakhi to Chinese.1997, Carolyn Han, Tales from Within the Clouds: Nakhi Stories of China, →ISBN, page x

Forms of Nakhi

alternative formNa-Khi
alternative formNashi

Questions about Nakhi

What does Nakhi mean?
Nakhi means an ethnic group centered in the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Province in China.
What part of speech is Nakhi?
Nakhi is a noun.

Words near Nakhi in the dictionary

  1. Nakhchawan
  2. Nakhchivan
  3. Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
  4. Nakhdjevan
  5. nakhes
  6. Nakhi
  7. Nakhichevan
  8. Nakhichevan-na-Donu
  9. Nakhichevan-on-Don
  10. Nakhijevan
  11. Nakhitchevan

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