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kheer.

A sweet rice pudding from South Asia.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/kɪə(ɹ)/US/kiːɹ/US
  1. A sweet rice pudding from South Asia.

    India · North · countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Hindi खीर / Urdu کھیر (khīr, “kheer”) (or a similar Indo-Aryan cognate), from Sanskrit क्षीर (kṣīrá, “milk”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšiHrám.

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