Modi

A surname from Gujarati.

Proper noun

  1. A surname from Gujarati.
    • India is opening up the designs of its first indigenously developed drones to domestic private companies, seeking to spur further technological advances and encourage manufacturing as Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

    1. Narendra Modi, 14th Prime Minister of India.

Origin

Transliteration of Gujarati મોદી (modī).

Forms

Modis

Proper noun Entry 2

  1. A script formerly used for writing the Marathi language.

Origin

Borrowed from Marathi मोडी (moḍī), probably from मोडणे (moḍṇe, “to break”), referring to the broken Devanagari characters from which the script is thought to be derived.