Komi
//ˈkoʊmi// name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of an ethnic group chiefly consisting of Komi speakers and descendants of Komi speakers who don't speak the language.
"In 1376 he set out to establish his mission among the Komi people of the Perm’ region, and achieved enough success for the Metropolitan to make him bishop […]."
- 2 Bonus points given to the white player to compensate for the fact that black plays first. uncountable
- 3 the Finnic language spoken by the Komi wordnet
- 4 a member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A Finno-Ugric language currently spoken by 200,000 to 400,000 people, depending on source and definition of "speaker", in northeastern European part of Russia.
- 2 A republic of Russia. Official name: Komi Republic.
- 3 A region of Russia.
Example
More examples"Since Black has the advantage of making the first move, White usually starts the game with some additional points, komi, generally 6.5 in the Japanese system of rules and 7.5 in the Chinese."
Etymology
Etymology 1
An endonym, used by the Finno-Permic Komi people to refer to themselves, probably through Russian коми (komi). See Komi-Zyrian коми (komi) for further etymology.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Japanese こみ (komi).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.