Home › Words › M › minakariminakari/miːnəˈkɑːɹi/minakari means A type of enamelwork Persian jewellery, especially champlevé.minakari is pronounced /miːnəˈkɑːɹi/.EtymologyFrom Urdu میناکاری (menākārī), from Persian [Term?].nounA type of enamelwork Persian jewellery, especially champlevé.e.g.“I bent my head for Kausalya to put on the fourteen-stringed meenakari gold necklace.” — 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 165:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.enamelling 65% match — An application of enamel. vs minakari →enameling 63% match — The art of applying enamel vs minakari →cloisonne 60% match — A decorative technique for metalwork, especially brass, whereby colored enamel is baked in partitions (cloisons) between raised ridges of the metal. vs minakari →champlevé 59% match — Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enamelled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are then fired. vs minakari →bidri 58% match — A kind of Indian ornamental metalwork made from a pewter-copper alloy inlaid with patterns in silver and then blackened. vs minakari →enamelwork 58% match — Objects decorated with enamel, collectively. vs minakari →enamelist 57% match — An artist who works with enamel. vs minakari →niellure 56% match — The niello process. vs minakari →