yeti
/ˈjɛ.ti/US/ˈjɛ.ti/
yeti noun: an unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.
Noun
yeti (plural yeti or yetis)
- An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.
- The Sherpas had no hesitation in pronouncing them to be those of a Snowman or "Yeti" (not "mirka" as Mr.Smythe's Tibetans had it), and they thought he was the smaller man-eating variety and not his larger yak-eating brother.[…]They may even have been our friend ursus arctoc pruinosus, but they were...1937 November 13, Balu, “Are The 'Snowmen' Bears?”, in The Times, page 13
- There is no doubt that the Sherpas accept the fact that the Yeti really exists. But then they believe just as confidently that their gods live in comfort on the summit of Mount Everest. We found it quite impossible to divorce the Yeti from the supernatural.1962, Edmund Hillary, Desmond Doig, “Into the Mingbo Valley”, in High in the Thin Cold Air: The Story of the Himalayan Expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary, sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia...
- Synonyms:
- abominable snowman
yeti meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
yeti in Hindi
- यति, येती
yeti in Tamil
- பனிமனிதர்
yeti in Marathi
- यति, येती
yeti in Urdu
- پہاڑی جانور نما انسان
More languagesFewer languages
- yeti in Bengali
- ইয়েতি, যতি
- yeti in Telugu
- యతి, యేతి, యేతీ
- yeti in Malayalam
- യെതി, യതി
- yeti in Kannada
- ಯತಿ, ಯೇತಿ
- yeti in Punjabi
- ਯਤਿ, ਯੇਤੀ
- yeti in Gujarati
- યતિ, યેતી
- yeti in Odia
- ଯତି
- yeti in Nepali
- हिममानव himmānav
- yeti in Arabic
- يَتِي yatī
- yeti in Indonesian
- yeti
- yeti in Persian
- یتی
- yeti in Thai
- เยติ yaydtì
- yeti in Vietnamese
- người tuyết
- Dzongkha
- མི་རྒོད mi rgod
Synonyms of yeti
Forms of yeti
| plural | yeti |
|---|---|
| plural | yetis |
Origin of yeti
Borrowed from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “wildman, yeti”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “dirt, rust, slate”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”). Attested since 1937.
Words formed from yeti
Phrases with yeti
Words that rhyme with yeti
Questions about yeti
- What does yeti mean?
- Yeti means an unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.
- What is yeti in Hindi?
- Yeti in Hindi is यति, येती. See Yeti meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is yeti?
- Yeti is a noun.
- How do you pronounce yeti?
- Yeti is pronounced /ˈjɛ.ti/.
- What is the plural of yeti?
- The plural of yeti is yeti.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: yeti (page history and authors); yeti (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yeti (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yeti (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yeti (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yeti (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yeti (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yeti (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yeti (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yeti (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yeti (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yeti (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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