khud
English
Alternative forms
- khad
Etymology
From Hindi खड्ड (khaḍḍ).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kʌd/
Noun
khud (plural khuds)
- (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.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Education of Otis Yeere’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, p. 8: