say it: nep-uh-LEEZ
nepalese is a noun and adjective meaning "a native or inhabitant of Nepal". It carries 2 recorded senses.
of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture
“Nepalese troops massed at the border”
“Nepali mountains are among the highest in the world”
“the different Nepali words for `rice'”
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 nepalese 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.