Khas
noun
Khas is a noun meaning “The inhabitants of the medieval Khas Kingdom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-A-S, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Khas mean?
noun
- 1
The inhabitants of the medieval Khas Kingdom.
- 2
A modern-day Nepalese Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group.
- 3
Native speakers of the Khas-Nepali language.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Khas
- Khaṣ
- Khaś
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Khas?
Khas appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 90,432nd 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 Khas come from?
Borrowed from Nepali खस (khas), from Sanskrit खश (khaśa). Doublet of Khasa.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).