khaya
noun
khaya is a noun meaning “A native house or hut” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-A-Y-A, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of khaya is khayas.
What does khaya mean?
noun
- 1
A native house or hut.
- 2
Servants' quarters separated from the main house.
- 3
slangAnyone's house or home.
- 4
Any tree of the genus Khaya.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of khaya
- khayas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is khaya?
Khaya appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th 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 khaya come from?
From the Nguni group of languages khaya (“home”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).