khata
/ˈkɑː.tə/noun
khata is a noun meaning “A traditional ceremonial scarf in Tengrism and Tibetan Buddhism, symbolizing purity and compassion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-A-T-A, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of khata is khatas.
What does khata mean?
noun
- 1
A traditional ceremonial scarf in Tengrism and Tibetan Buddhism, symbolizing purity and compassion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce khata?
- /ˈkɑː.tə/
- /ˈkæ.tə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of khata
- khatas plural
- khatag
- khatak
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is khata?
Khata appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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 khata come from?
From Tibetan ཁ་བཏགས་ (kha btags); compare Mongolian хадаг (xadag), Nepali खतक (khatak), Chinese 哈達 /哈达.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).