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consumah

consumah is the obsolete form of khansamah.

Meaning of khansamah

Noun

khansamah (plural khansamahs)

  1. (East, India) A house-steward or native servant, being in charge of the kitchen and the food supplies.
    • An old sinner, in shape of a khansamah, is the genius of the place, and has rarely aught else to tempt the tired traveller with than a “sudden death”—a fowl caught running in the yard, and dished up forthwith; […]1866, Frederick F. Wyman, From Calcutta to the Snowy Range, page 330

Forms of consumah

pluralconsumahs

Questions about consumah

What is consumah the obsolete form of?
Consumah is the obsolete form of khansamah.

Words near consumah in the dictionary

  1. consults
  2. consumability
  3. consumable
  4. consumables
  5. consumably
  6. consumah
  7. consumahs
  8. consumate
  9. consumation
  10. consume
  11. consumed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: consumah (page history and authors); khansamah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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