Maris

[ mar-is ]
/ ˈmær ɪs /

noun

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Mari
[ mah-ree ]
/ ˈmɑ ri /

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.
Also called Cheremis, Cheremiss.

Origin of Mari

< Russian mári (not declined) < Mari marij Mari, man
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British Dictionary definitions for maris

Mari
/ (ˈmɑːrɪ) /

noun plural Mari or Maris

another name for Cheremiss
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