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hathi

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hathi is a noun meaning “An elephant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-T-H-I, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hathi is hathis.

What does hathi mean?

noun

  1. 1

    IndiaobsoleterareAn elephant.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of hathi

  • hatty

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is hathi?

Hathi appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does hathi come from?

Borrowed from Hindi हाथी (hāthī).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).