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khalasi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
kha-lasi
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An Indian worker at a port or dockyard, traditionally employed in pulling vessels out of the water for maintenance and repair and returning them to the water afterwards.

Etymology

From Hindi ख़लासी (xalāsī), from Classical Persian خلاصی (xalāsī).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: ख़लासी, خلاصی

Inflected Forms

khalasis (plural) classy (alternative) clashee (alternative) clashy (alternative)

Questions

What does khalasi mean?
An Indian worker at a port or dockyard, traditionally employed in pulling vessels out of the water for maintenance and repair and returning them to the water afterwards.
Where does khalasi come from?
It is traced to Hindi.

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