Definition of "Komi"

Komi

/ˈkoʊmi/

proper noun
1. A Finno-Ugric language currently spoken by 200,000 to 400,000 people, depending on source and definition of "speaker", in northeastern European part of Russia.
2. A republic of Russia. Official name: Komi Republic.
3. A region of Russia.
noun
plural Komis or Komi
1. A member of an ethnic group chiefly consisting of Komi speakers and descendants of Komi speakers who don't speak the language.
  Quotations
  In 1376 he set out to establish his mission among the Komi people of the Perm’ region, and achieved enough success for the Metropolitan to make him bishop […] .
  2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 519