Mustangi

From Mustang +‎ -i.

Mustangi (plural Mustangis or Mustangi)

1. A person from or native to the Mustang region of Nepal.
   • 1997, Andrew Stevenson, Annapurna Circuit‎^[1], London: Constable and Company, →ISBN, page 91:

     The contrast between the two is striking: the sidhar wears tight jeans and a cowboy-style plaid shirt buttoned up to the top of his scrawny neck, with his hair combed into a wild bouffon; the dishevelled Mustangi, loose robes carelessly thrown on, has grime-covered black hands, uncombed and unwashed hair.

   • 2006, Elke Selter, Melissa Jenkins, Vibhushan Subba, editors, Cultural Portrait Handbook 4: Bauddhanath‎^[2], UNESCO:

     The Jamchen Monastery is often visited by the Raja of Mustang and other Mustangi, especially when they come south for the harsh winter months.

   • 2007, George van Driem, “Ob virulentas nonnularum herbarum exhalationes”, in John A. Ardussi and Françoise Pommaret, editors, Bhutan: Traditions and Changes‎^[3], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 69:

     The plant doesn't smell too bad at all to me, but all the Mustangis I've met dislike it, less on the basis of the reputedly malodorous bouquet than the reputation the smell of the flowers has for causing headaches and nausea.

   • 2008, Sienna R. Craig, Horses Like Lightning: a Story of Passage Through the Himalayas‎^[4], Boston: Wisdom Publications, →ISBN, page 70:

     By late November, many local Mustangis set off for a winter of trade in India, while others headed Kathmandu and the comfort of a winter spent among city-dwelling family […]

Mustangi (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or relating to the Mustang region of Nepal.
   • 2003, Mark Jacobson, 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time‎^[5], New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 116:

     The original plan was to get to Muktinath, then decide whether or not to try to make it to the Chinese border where the Mustangi people were.

   • 2011, David P. Jackson, Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet‎^[6], New York: Rubin Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 82:

     One was painted by the mid-twelfth century at Sakya Monastery or nearby in western Tsang as described in a later written description of the painting by the Mustangi scholar Lowo Khenchen.

   • 2024, Ross Perlin, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues, London: Grove Press UK, →ISBN, page 126:

     […] Hale opened Cafe Tibet, a tiny restaurant next door where Rasmina also worked. Once a week, a group of Mustangi guys roll in after playing soccer and take over the back […]