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Khas

Khas noun: the inhabitants of the medieval Khas Kingdom.

Noun

Khas pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The inhabitants of the medieval Khas Kingdom.
  2. (plural, plural-only) A modern-day Nepalese Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group.
  3. (plural, plural-only) Native speakers of the Khas-Nepali language.

Forms of Khas

alternative formKhaṣ
alternative formKhaś

Origin of Khas

Borrowed from Nepali खस (khas), from Sanskrit खश (khaśa). Doublet of Khasa.

Words formed from Khas

Phrases with Khas

Questions about Khas

What does Khas mean?
Khas means the inhabitants of the medieval Khas Kingdom.
What part of speech is Khas?
Khas is a noun.

Words near Khas in the dictionary

  1. kharvars
  2. kharwar
  3. kharwars
  4. kharza
  5. kharzas
  6. Khas
  7. Khas Nepali
  8. Khas-kura
  9. Khas-Nepali
  10. Khasa
  11. Khasan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Khas (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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