"Ngari" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Ngari
  1. A Meitei traditional food item made of ingredients such as fermented fish
    Sense id: en-Ngari-en-name-uUAxwNgz
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

Etymology: From Tibetan མངའ་རིས (mnga' ris). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|bo|མངའ་རིས}} Tibetan མངའ་རིས (mnga' ris) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Ngari
  1. A prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Categories (place): Places in China, Places in Tibet, Prefectures of China Translations (prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region, China): 阿里 (aa³ lei⁵) (Chinese Cantonese), 阿里 (Ālǐ) (Chinese Mandarin)
    Sense id: en-Ngari-en-name-KwQn-7C4 Categories (other): Chinese links with redundant alt parameters, Chinese links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

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