nepali

1. 1.

   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'”

   SynonymsNepalese

Other forms of nepali

plural

nepalis·

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.

Questions about nepali

What does nepali mean?

nepali means "a native or inhabitant of Nepal". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nepali?

nepali has 3 syllables: ne-pa-li. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /nəˈpɔli/.

What is another word for nepali?

Close synonyms include Nepalese, Nepalese. 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 nepali a common word?

nepali 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.