: 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
Word History
Etymology
of Sami origin; akin to North Sami sápmi, genitive sámi the Sami homeland, language, or way of life