say it: MAH-ree
mari is a noun meaning "a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia
the Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mari come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.