n.
Variant: also Saa · mi
Pronunciation: ' sä-m ē
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural Sami or Samis also Saami or Saamis
Etymology: of Sami origin; akin to North Sami sápmi, genitive sámi the Sami homeland, language, or way of life
Date: 1842
1 : a member of a people of northern Scandinavia, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of northern Russia who are traditionally fishermen, nomadic herders of caribou, and hunters of sea mammals
2 : any or all of the closely related Finno-Ugric languages of the Sami people