Mari

[ mah-ree ]

noun,plural Ma·ris, (especially collectively) Ma·ri for 1.
  1. a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

  2. the Finnic language of the Mari.

Origin of Mari

1
<Russian mári (not declined) <Mari marijMari, man

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British Dictionary definitions for Mari

Mari

/ (ˈmɑːrɪ) /


nounplural Mari or Maris
  1. another name for Cheremiss

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