Semisolid snow that will barely hold a person, coarse snow with a hard, rugged crust and light, fluffy lying snow. There are Sami words for these and hundreds more types of snow.
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Sami
//ˈsɑːmi//
Synonyms for "sami" (14 found)
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Related words (7)
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3 entriesderived
13 entriesetymologically related_to
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8 entriesTranslations
151 translations across 49 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- سَامِي name (male given name)
Armenian
2 entries- լոպարերեն name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- սաամերեն name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Asturian
3 entries- lapón name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- lapona noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
- lapón noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- Sami name (male given name)
Bulgarian
1 entries- саа́м noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 薩米語 /萨米语 name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Danish
4 entries- samisk name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- lap noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
- laplænder noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
- same noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Dutch
3 entries- Samisch adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- Samisch name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- Same noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Esperanto
4 entries- lapona adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- samea adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- laponino noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
- lapono noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Estonian
2 entries- saami adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- saami name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Faroese
4 entries- lappiskt name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- lapplendskt name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- sámiskt name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- lappi noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Finnish
4 entries- saamelainen adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- saame name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- saamen kieli name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- saamelainen noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
French
4 entries- lapon adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- same adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- sami adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- lapon name (any of the languages of the Sami)
German
4 entries- lappisch adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- samisch adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- Lappisch name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- Saami name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Greek
2 entries- Σάμι name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- Σάμι noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Hungarian
4 entries- lapp adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- számi adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- lapp name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- számi name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Ido
4 entries- Lapona adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- Laponiana adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- Laponiana name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- Laponiano noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Ingrian
1 entries- saami name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Irish
4 entries- Laplainnise adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- Laplannach adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- Sáimise adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- Sámach adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
Italian
4 entries- lappone name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- sami name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- lappone noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
- sami noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Japanese
3 entries- サーミ語 name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- サーミ noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
- サーミ人 noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Kildin Sami
1 entries- са̄мь кӣлл name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Korean
1 entries- 사미어 name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Latin
2 entries- lappo noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
- sami noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Lule Sami
2 entries- sámegiella name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- sábme noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Macedonian
3 entries- ла́понски name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- Ла́понец noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
- Ла́понка noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- Samî name (male given name)
Northern Sami
4 entries- sámi adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- davvisámegiella name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- sámegiella name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- sápmi name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- samisk adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- samisk name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- same noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- samisk adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- samisk name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- same noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Old English
1 entries- Finn noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Old Norse
2 entries- finnskr adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- finnr noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Persian
1 entries- سامی name (male given name)
Polish
3 entries- język lapoński name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- Laponka noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
- Lapończyk noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Portuguese
4 entries- lapão adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- lapônio adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- sami adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- lapão name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Russenorsk
1 entries- filman noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Russian
3 entries- са́амский язы́к name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- саа́м noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
- саа́мка noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Skolt Sami
1 entries- sääʹmǩiõll name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Slovak
4 entries- lapončina name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- saamčina name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- sámčina name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- Laponec noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Southern Sami
1 entries- saemie noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Spanish
1 entries- sami name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Swedish
4 entries- lapsk adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- samisk adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- samiska name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- lapp noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Tagalog
3 entries- Lapon adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- Lapon name (any of the languages of the Sami)
- Lapon noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
Tajik
1 entries- Сомӣ name (male given name)
Ter Sami
1 entries- са̄мя кӣлл name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Turkish
1 entries- Sami name (male given name)
Urdu
1 entries- سامی name (male given name)
Volapük
2 entries- Samiyänik adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- Samiyänan noun (member of indigenous people of Lapland)
West-Frisian
2 entries- Samysk adj (relating to the Sami people or languages)
- Samysk name (any of the languages of the Sami)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The Sami people live in Lapland.
Source: tatoeba (4861659)
Reindeer have been herded for centuries by the Sami and the Nenets.
Source: tatoeba (5568110)
Sami got a job working on a farm.
Source: tatoeba (5838676)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.