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khanda

noun

khanda is a noun meaning “A double-edged sword from India, used ceremonially in Sikhism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-A-N-D-A, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of khanda is khandas.

What does khanda mean?

noun

  1. 1

    IndiaA double-edged sword from India, used ceremonially in Sikhism.

  2. 2

    IndiaA religious symbol of Sikhism, ⟨☬⟩, having the shape of three swords: a khanda, a chakram and two kirpans.

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

Forms of khanda

  • khandas plural

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

How common is khanda?

Khanda appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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 khanda come from?

Borrowed from Punjabi ਖੰਡਾ (khaṇḍā), from Sanskrit खड्ग (khaḍga).

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