Meanings
plural Mansis
- A member of an ethnic group of people who live in Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug.
A small Mansi population has also lived up to the present day on the western slopes of the Ural mountains.
2022, Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages
- The Uralic language spoken by these people, now more often considered a group of closely related languages.
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.
2010, Christopher Moseley, editor, Atlas of the world's languages in dangerSynonyms: Vogul
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe Uralic language spoken by these people, now more often considered a group of closely related languages.
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nounthe Ugric language (related to Hungarian) spoken by the Vogul
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Origin
- mns-norма̄ньси
- mns-norма̄ньси
- EnglishMansi
Borrowed from Northern Mansi Ма̄ньси (Mānʹsi).
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Chinese Mandarin 曼西語 /曼西语
- 曼西語 /曼西语Uralic language
Finnish mansi, mansi
- mansiperson
- mansiUralic language
Hungarian manysi, vogul
- manysiperson
- vogulperson
- manysiUralic language
- vogulUralic language
Irish Mansais
- MansaisUralic language
Polish Mans, Mansyjka
- Mansperson
- Mansyjkaperson
- język mansyjskiUralic language
Russian ма́нси, вогу́л
- ма́нси (mánsi)person
- вогу́л (vogúl)person
- вогу́лич (vogúlič)person
- манси́йский (mansíjskij)Uralic language
- вогу́льский (vogúlʹskij)Uralic language
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Cite this entry
Mansi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mansi
“Mansi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mansi. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mansi,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mansi.
Source: Mansi on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.