Mordvin

noun

Mord·​vin

-vin

variants or Mordvinian

mȯrdˈvinēən

plural Mordvin or Mordvins or Mordvinian or Mordvinians

1

a

: an agricultural people of the middle Volga provinces of European Russia

b

: a member of such people

2

: a Finno-Ugric language of the Mordvin people

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