Khasi
Americannoun
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Khasis,
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Khasi
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a traditionally matrilineal Indigenous people of Meghalaya in northeastern India, now also residing in Assam and in parts of Bangladesh.
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the Austroasiatic language of the Khasi.
adjective
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Khasi
First recorded in 1780–90; from Khasi, a self-designation
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This sacred space is in the village of Mawphlang, nestled in the verdant Khasi Hills in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, whose name means “abode of clouds.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
They follow the pantheistic Seng Khasi religion, which holds that God exists in everyone and everything.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
Watson walked the living tree-root bridges that can withstand adverse weather better than any human-made structure, and that allow the Khasi hill tribe in Northern India to travel between villages during the monsoon floods.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2020
He and his colleagues found that Maasai women were less competitive than the men, but the matrilineal Khasi women were more competitive.
From The Verge ● Aug. 16, 2017
Once upon a time there lived with its dam on the Plains of Sylhet a young deer whose fame has come down through the ages in Khasi folk-lore.
From Folk-Tales of the Khasis by K. U. Rafy
Khasis, with the Jaintias and the Garos, are the Indigenous people of the state.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
Khasis, who grew X5 by acquisition into a Russian market leader with $11 billion in annual sales, left the company in March after five years.
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2011
Khasis, 45, built up X5 through acquisitions into a Russian market leader with $11 billion in annual sales during five years at the helm.
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2011
Khasis confirmed his appointment but declined to give any details about his intended role at the world's biggest retailer.
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2011
Christianity has made many converts among the Khasis, a non-Hindu tribe of that region, and a successful revival meeting extending over a week was once held in a district of professing Christians.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
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