khatiya

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi खटिया (khaṭiyā).

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• Kayathi