khatiya
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Hindi खटिया (khaṭiyā).
Noun[edit]
khatiya (plural khatiyas)
- (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.