khud
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hindi खड्ड (khaḍḍ).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kʌd/
- Rhymes: -ʌd
Noun edit
khud (plural khuds)
- (India) A steep cleft in a hillside; a ravine.
- 1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere. Part I.”, in Under the Deodars (The Works of Rudyard Kipling), Edinburgh de Luxe edition, Boston, Mass., London: The Edinburgh Society, →OCLC, page 8:
- We are only little bits of dirt on the hillsides—here one day and blown down the khud the next.