lungi
noun
lungi is a noun meaning “A garment worn around the waist, especially by men, in Southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-N-G-I, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lungi is lungis.
What does lungi mean?
noun
- 1
A garment worn around the waist, especially by men, in Southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lungi
- lungis plural
- longi
- longyi
- lungie
- lungy
- lungyi
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lungi?
Lungi appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Lungi in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense garment:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | lungi |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lungi come from?
From Hindi लुंगी (luṅgī)/Urdu لنگی (lungī).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).