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Madrasi

noun, adjective

Madrasi is a noun meaning “A native or resident of Chennai in India” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-D-R-A-S-I, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Madrasi is Madrasis.

What does Madrasi mean?

noun

  1. 1

    datedA native or resident of Chennai in India.

  2. 2

    A native of South India; a person of South Indian extraction (exonym; often considered offensive).

  3. 3

    A fairy chess rule where a piece that is attacked by a piece of the same type is paralyzed, rendering it unable to move.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to the city of Chennai in India, formerly known as Madras.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Madrasi

  • Madrasis plural
  • Madrassi

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Madrasi?

Madrasi appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).