yeti

Borrowed from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “wildman, yeti”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “dirt, rust, slate”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”). Attested since 1937.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/, [ˈjɛ.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -ɛti

yeti (plural yeti or yetis)

1. (cryptozoology) An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.

   Synonym: abominable snowman

   Coordinate terms: bigfoot, sasquatch, yowie, menk

   • 1937 November 13, Balu, “Are The 'Snowmen' Bears?”, in The Times‎^[1], page 13:

     The Sherpas had no hesitation in pronouncing them to be those of a Snowman or "Yeti" (not "mirka" as Mr.Smythe's Tibetans had it), and they thought he was the smaller man-eating variety and not his larger yak-eating brother. […] They may even have been our friend ursus arctoc pruinosus, but they were no more like the tracks of our "Yeti" than those of a two-toed anteater or an armadillo.

   • 1962, Edmund Hillary, Desmond Doig, “Into the Mingbo Valley”, in High in the Thin Cold Air: The Story of the Himalayan Expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary, sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia‎^[2], Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131:

     There is no doubt that the Sherpas accept the fact that the Yeti really exists. But then they believe just as confidently that their gods live in comfort on the summit of Mount Everest. We found it quite impossible to divorce the Yeti from the supernatural.

• → Portuguese: iéti

• -iety, yite

yeti

1. (Mpakwithi) bird

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 189

• yetti

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɛtɪ]
• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

yeti m anim

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: sněžný muž

• “yeti”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Probably borrowed from English yeti, from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjeː.ti/

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• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

yeti m (plural yeti's, diminutive yetietje n)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: verschrikkelijke sneeuwman

Borrowed from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /jəˈti/ [jəˈt̪i]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ye‧ti

yéti (plural yeti-yeti)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti (an unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas)

• “yeti”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

yeti m (invariable)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: abominevole uomo delle nevi

Unadapted borrowing from English yeti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛti
• Syllabification: ye‧ti

yeti m animal (indeclinable)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti, abominable snowman (unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas)

   Synonym: człowiek śniegu

• “yeti”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “yeti”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)
• yeti in PWN's encyclopedia

yeti m (plural yetis)

1. alternative form of iéti

• “yeti”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from French yéti.

yeti m (plural yeti)

1. yeti, abominable snowman

Derived from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

• IPA^(key): /jeti/, [ˈjeti]
• Rhymes: -eti
• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

yeti m pers

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonyms: snežný človek m, snežný muž m

• “yeti”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

• Rhymes: -eti
• Syllabification: ye‧ti

yeti m (plural yetis)

1. (folklore) yeti

• “yeti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

yeti c

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

• IPA^(key): [jeti]
• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

yeti (definite accusative yetiyi, plural yetiler)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti
2. (philosophy, psychology) faculty, skill