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Sami
Definitions
- 1 Relating to the Sami people of northern Scandinavia, or the Sami languages. not-comparable
- 1 The Sami people, collectively.
- 2 A male given name from Arabic, feminine equivalent Samiyah.
- 3 A diminutive of the female given name Samantha.
- 4 Any of the languages of the Sami people. countable
- 1 A member of an indigenous Finno-Ugric people of Lapland.
- 2 Alternative form of swami. alt-of, alternative
- 3 At West Point, a Saturday morning inspection of a cadet's room.
"Cadets loathe SAMIs because they are the most stringent of all inspections."
- 4 the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula wordnet
- 5 a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer wordnet
Etymology
From Northern Sami Sápmi, from one of the Sami languages, of uncertain origin/meaning, but possibly related to Proto-Balto-Slavic *źémē (“land”). More at Sápmi and Sami.
From Northern Sami Sápmi, from one of the Sami languages, of uncertain origin/meaning, but possibly related to Proto-Balto-Slavic *źémē (“land”). More at Sápmi and Sami.
From Northern Sami Sápmi, from one of the Sami languages, of uncertain origin/meaning, but possibly related to Proto-Balto-Slavic *źémē (“land”). More at Sápmi and Sami.
Derived from Arabic سَامِي (sāmī), from the informal pronunciation of سَامٍ (sāmin, “high, exalted”).
From Samantha.
Borrowed from Tamil சாமி (cāmi).
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