számi

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: szá‧mi
• Rhymes: -mi

Adjective

számi (not comparable)

1. Sami, Lappish, Lapp (relating to the Sami people of northern Scandinavia, or the Sami languages)

   Synonym: (dated) lapp

Usage notes

Some Uralic languages have two names, an exonym (external name, mostly of Russian origin) and an endonym (internal name, a self-denomination). These days normally the endonyms are preferred (similarly to Eskimo superseded by Inuit). In Hungarian, the terms are vogul superseded by manysi (“Mansi”), osztják, by hanti (“Khanty”), cseremisz, by mari (“Mari”), votják, by udmurt (“Udmurt”), zürjén, by komi (“Komi”), jurák, by nyenyec (“Nenets”), and lapp, by számi (“Sami”).

Declension

Noun

számi (plural számik)

1. Sami, Lapp (a member of an indigenous Finno-Ugric people of Lapland)
2. (only singular) Sami, Lapp, Lappish (any of the languages of the Sami people)

   Synonym: (dated) lapp

Declension

Further reading

• lapp in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN