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MARI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Mari mean?
• MARI (noun)
The noun MARI has 2 senses:
1. a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia
2. the Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis
Familiarity information: MARI used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("Mari" is a kind of...):
Russian (a native or inhabitant of Russia)
Holonyms ("Mari" is a member of...):
Russia; Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic; Soviet Russia (formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("Mari" is a kind of...):
Volgaic (a group of Finnic languages spoken around the Volga river)
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