khatiya

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hindi खटिया (khaṭiyā).

Noun

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khatiya (plural khatiyas)

  1. (South Asia) A rope bed.
    • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 273:
      My men carried Shafi away on a khatiya.
    • 2005, Rahul Bhattacharya, Pundits from Pakistan:
      I began drifting and presently encountered a man sitting on a khatiya, gazing passively into the scorched fields across the road.
    • 2010, Anshuman Mohan, Potato Chips:
      Inside the hut, an old man was lying on a khatiya. The ball boy greeted him with a salaam.

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