sami

Other forms of sami

plural

samis·

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 sami

What does sami mean?

sami means "a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sami?

sami has 2 syllables: sam-i. The stress falls on "sam". In IPA it is /ˈsæmi/.

What is another word for sami?

Close synonyms include Lapp, Lapplander, Saami, Same, Saame. 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 sami a common word?

sami is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.