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YEMENI

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Yemen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Yemeni" is a kind of...):

Arab; Arabian (a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa)

Holonyms ("Yemeni" is a member of...):

Republic of Yemen; Yemen (a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990)

Derivation:

Yemeni (of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants

Example:

Yemeni mountains

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Yemen (a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990)

Derivation:

Yemeni (a native or inhabitant of Yemen)

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