lungi

What does lungi mean?

lungi 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 lungi?

lungi has 2 syllables and divides as lun-gi 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 lungi?

Close synonyms include lungyi, longyi. 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 lungi a common word?

lungi is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 lungi come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.