English Explanatory Dictionary

Gurung

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a Tibetan ethnic group living in the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal.
name
  1. The Sino-Tibetan language of these people.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Gurung Gurungs

Etymology

From the Nepali surname, from the name of the Gurung people of Nepal, गुरुङ (guruṅ), an exonym itself possibly borrowed from Tibetan.

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