khatun
noun
khatun is a noun meaning “A lady or wife in certain Central Asian communities” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-A-T-U-N, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of khatun is khatuns.
What does khatun mean?
noun
- 1
A lady or wife in certain Central Asian communities.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of khatun
- khatuns plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is khatun?
Khatun appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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 khatun come from?
From Persian خاتون (xâtun), ultimately probably from Sogdian [script needed] (γwtʾynh /xwatēn, xutēn/, “queen”) either directly or via Proto-Common Turkic *xātun.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).