kharif
adjective
kharif is an adjective meaning “Of crops: cultivated and harvested during the monsoon season” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-A-R-I-F, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does kharif mean?
adjective
- 1
Of crops: cultivated and harvested during the monsoon season.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kharif
- khureef
- khurreef
- kureef
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kharif?
Kharif appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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 kharif come from?
From Urdu خریف (xarīf), from Arabic خَرِيف (ḵarīf, “autumn”)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).