खान
Hindi
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
खान • (khān) f
- a mine, quarry
- (deprecated template usage) मेरे पिता लोहे की खान में काम करते थे।
- mere pitā lohe kī khān mẽ kām karte the.
- My father used to work in an iron mine.
- Synonym: खदान (khadān)
- (deprecated template usage)
- treasury; storehouse; repository
- Synonym: भंडार (bhaṇḍār)
Declension
References
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “खान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 234
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “khāni”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press