Definitions for Khond

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IPA: /kɒnd/

Khond is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in Khond (dhkno).

Definitions for Khond

noun

  1. a member of an outcaste Dravidian people of the state of Odisha in eastern India.

Examples for Khond

Khond women wear a red or parti-coloured skirt reaching the knee, the neck and bosom being left bare.

Certain it is that almost no inducement will prevail on a Khond to voluntarily part with these precious heirlooms.

The Khond puts the rice, piece of the ear, and the hair of the pig, under the roof.

A Khond has been known to ruin himself for the sake of his friend.

The Taonlas appear to be a low occupational caste of mixed origin, but derived principally from the Khond tribe.

The Malayan and Khond figures are especially noteworthy, but are not free from the suspicion of influence from higher religions.

If the adulterer is a Khond, he gets off with payment of the buffalo, which is slaughtered for the entertainment of the village.

The Khond is a beef eater, but a curious custom prevails in some parts, that a married woman must abstain from the flesh of a cow.

The tribes (who practice infanticide) belong to the division of the Khond people which does not offer human sacrifices.

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