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
First Known Use of Sami
1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1
History and Etymology for Sami
of Sami origin; akin to North Sami sápmi, genitive sámi the Sami homeland, language, or way of life