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kish

/kɪʃ/

kish noun: a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf.

Noun (1)

kish (plural kishes)

  1. A basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf.
    • the whole kish emptied on [the turf-fire] at once... (c. 1)1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer
    • Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

Noun (2)

kish (uncountable)

  1. The graphite formed as a byproduct in iron smelting.

Proper noun capitalized: Kish

Kish

  1. (historical) An ancient city of Sumer, located some 12 km east of Babylon, and 80 km south of Baghdad.
  2. A resort island in Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan Province, off the southern coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf.

kish meaning in Tamil

kish in Tamil

மிதப்புக்கரி

Forms of kish

pluralkishes

Origin of kish

Borrowed from Irish cis, ceis (“basket, hamper”). Doublet of cesta.

Compare German Kies (“gravel, pyrites”).

Words that rhyme with kish

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Questions about kish

What does kish mean?
Kish means a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf.
What is kish in Tamil?
Kish in Tamil is மிதப்புக்கரி. See Kish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is kish?
Kish can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce kish?
Kish is pronounced /kɪʃ/.
What is the plural of kish?
The plural of kish is kishes.

Words near kish in the dictionary

  1. kisels
  2. Kiser
  3. Kiseri
  4. Kisers
  5. Kises
  6. kish
  7. Kishambala
  8. Kishan
  9. Kishanganj
  10. Kishar
  11. Kishbaugh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kish (page history and authors); Kish (page history and authors); kish (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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