khud

English

Alternative forms

• khad

Etymology

From Hindi खड्ड (khaḍḍ).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kʌd/

Noun

khud (plural khuds)

1. (India) A ravine; a steep cleft in a hillside.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Education of Otis Yeere’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, p. 8:

     We are only little bits of dirt on the hillsides – here one day and blown down the khud the next.