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khula

/kuːˈlɑː/noun

khula is a noun meaning “A form of divorce initiated by the wife” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-U-L-A, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does khula mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A form of divorce initiated by the wife.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce khula?

  • /kuːˈlɑː/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of khula

  • khul'

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is khula?

Khula appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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 khula come from?

Borrowed from Arabic خُلْع (ḵulʕ).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).