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kansama

kansama is the alternative 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 kansama

pluralkansamas

Questions about kansama

What is kansama the alternative form of?
Kansama is the alternative form of khansamah.

Words near kansama in the dictionary

  1. kans grass
  2. Kans.
  3. Kansa
  4. Kansai
  5. Kansai dialect
  6. kansama
  7. kansamah
  8. kansamahs
  9. kansamas
  10. Kansan
  11. Kansans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kansama (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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