Nepalese
/nɛ.pəˈliːz/
Nepalese adjective: of, from, or pertaining to Nepal, the Nepalese people or the Nepalese language.
Adjective
Nepalese (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Nepal, the Nepalese people or the Nepalese language.
- All the towns have small teahouses where you can get tea, sometimes chapatis (a flat flour and water bread similar to tortillas), sometimes eggs, and dahl baat (rice, beans and curried vegetables, the standard Nepalese meal).1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 8
- Synonyms:
- Nepali
Proper noun
Nepalese
- The national language of Nepal.
- Synonyms:
- Nepali
Noun
Nepalese (plural Nepalese or Nepaleses)
- A person from Nepal or of Nepalese descent.
- Some of the Nepaleses on the Chinese side of the border were road or house builders.1988, Frances M. Parsons, Donna L. Chitwood, I Didn't Hear the Dragon Roar (page 243)
- Synonyms:
- Nepali
Nepalese meaning in Hindi, Bengali and Nepali
Nepalese in Hindi
- Nepalese; of or pertaining to Nepal
- नेपाली nepālī
Nepalese in Bengali
- নেপালী
Nepalese in Nepali
- Nepalese; of or pertaining to Nepal
- नेपाली nepālī
Synonyms of Nepalese
Forms of Nepalese
| plural | Nepalese |
|---|---|
| plural | Nepaleses |
Origin of Nepalese
From Nepal + -ese.
Words formed from Nepalese
Words that rhyme with Nepalese
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
Questions about Nepalese
- What does Nepalese mean?
- Nepalese means of, from, or pertaining to Nepal, the Nepalese people or the Nepalese language.
- What is Nepalese in Hindi?
- Nepalese in Hindi is नेपाली (nepālī). See Nepalese meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Nepalese?
- Nepalese can be an adjective, a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Nepalese?
- Nepalese is pronounced /nɛ.pəˈliːz/ (UK).
Words near Nepalese in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Nepalese (page history and authors); नेपाली (Hindi) (page history and authors); Nepalese (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); नेपाली (Nepali) (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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