longyi

What does longyi mean?

longyi means "a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma".

How many syllables are in longyi?

longyi has 2 syllables and divides as lon-gyi under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for longyi?

Close synonyms include lungi, lungyi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is longyi a common word?

longyi is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for longyi come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.