Etymology

sangai

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Today it means: A endemic member of a subspecies of brow-antlered deer (Eld's deer) naturally found only in Manipur in India. Full definition →

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From Meitei language words, "sa" (meaning "animal") and "ngai" (meaning "waiting").

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.