Mari
[mah-ree]
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noun, plural Ma·ris, (especially collectively) Ma·ri for 1.
a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
the Finnic language of the Mari.
Origin of Mari
< Russian mári (not declined) < Mari marij Mari, man
Also called Cheremis, Cheremiss.
Cheremis
or Cher·e·miss
[cher-uh-mis, -mees, cher-uh-mis, -mees]
noun, plural Cher·e·mis·es, (especially collectively) Cher·e·mis.
Origin of Cheremis
< Russian cheremís, earlier cheremísin, Old Russian (plural) chermisy, probably < Chuvash śarmîs, śarmîś Mari
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Historical Examples of cheremiss
(1883–85); works of Smirnov on the Mordva, Cheremiss, etc., Fr.
The Races of ManJoseph Deniker
We hear of a forest-god among the Finns, Lapps and Cheremiss.
Cheremiss
Cheremis
noun
Mari
noun plural Mari or Maris
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