Mansi

Borrowed from Northern Mansi Ма̄ньси (Mānʹsi).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmænsi/, /ˈmɑːnsi/
• Hyphenation: Man‧si

Mansi (plural Mansis or Mansi)

1. A member of an ethnic group of people who live in Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug.
   • 2022, Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages:

     A small Mansi population has also lived up to the present day on the western slopes of the Ural mountains.

Mansi

1. The Uralic language spoken by these people, now more often considered a group of closely related languages.
   • 2010, Christopher Moseley, editor, Atlas of the world's languages in danger:

     The languages of the other three branches – Mansi, Khanty and Samoyed – are or were spoken in Siberia, but the area of Tundra Nenets in the Samoyed branch extends to the west of the Ural mountains, and the area of Southern Mansi also originally covered parts of Europe.

• (language): Vogul

• Ethnologue entry for Mansi, mns ⁠

• Imans, M'sian, Msian, Naims, Nasim, amins, imans, mains, manis, minas, nsima

Plural form of Manso

Mansi m or f by sense

1. a surname
2. a noble family from Lucca

• smani, smina