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Definition: Khaki |
KhakiAdjective1. Of a yellowish brown color similar to olive drab. Noun1. A sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "khaki" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Khaki is a type of light brown fabric, or the color of such fabric. The name comes from the Urdu language khak meaning earth-colored or dust colored. The original khaki fabric is a closely twilled cloth of linen or cotton.Brigadier Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden began the use of Khaki for British Army regiments serving under him in India in 1848. All British troops in India adopted khaki in 1885. The Boers used khaki clothing as camouflage in the first Boer War; in the second Boer War the British did as well. The United States of America's Army adoped khaki during the Spanish American War. It continues to be used by militaries, but has also spread to civilian clothing.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Khaki."
Crosswords: Khaki |
| English words defined with "khaki": olive-drab. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Khaki" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (khaki), Hungarian (khaki). |
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Lyrics | Dressed in Locs and khaki suits (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stars in Khaki and Blue (1952) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Slacks and khaki waist for U.S. Army nurses]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Photographed on board ship, probably at the time of the Vera Cruz incident, circa April 1914. These sailors are wearing Marine Corps flannel shirts and khaki trousers, with dyed "white hats". They are posing with M1903 "Springfield" rifles and at least one man is wearing an ammunition belt. The ship may be USS South Carolina (BB-26). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Ship's officers, crew and Marines, circa 1914. Most of the Marines are wearing khaki field uniforms. Credit: NAVY. |  | Portrait photograph, in Service Dress Khaki uniform, circa 1956. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Squalus' Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Oliver F. Naquin (center, hatless, wearing khaki pants), with other survivors on board the Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane, bound for the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, following their rescue, 25 May 1939. Credit: NAVY. |  | Put the church behind Pershing To win this war the boys at the front need strength of spirit : a khaki testament for every soldier's kit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Put the church behind Pershing To win this war the boys at the front need strength of spirit : a khaki testament for every soldier's kit. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He wore boots and khaki pants and a khaki shirt with epaulets |
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Health | Wear khaki or olive colored clothing. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Khaki" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.75% of the time. "Khaki" is used about 160 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.75% | 158 | 24,965 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.63% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.63% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 160 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "khaki": get into khaki. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "khaki": khaki-brown, khaki-clad, khaki-coloured, khaki-drill, khaki-green, khaki-painted. | |
Ending with "khaki": bleached-khaki. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "khaki"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kaki, uniformë kaki, ngjyrë kaki. (various references) | |
Arabic | كاكي, الكاكي قماش متين. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сивокафяв плат за униформи, сивокафяв (brown coal, dun), каки, милитаристично-империалистичен, жълтеникавокафяв (fulvous, lurid, tan, tawny), панталони от сивокафяв плат. (various references) | |
Czech | hnìdožlutý. (various references) | |
Danish | kaki(frugt), daddelblomme. (various references) | |
Dutch | kaki-appel, Japanse dadel. (various references) | |
Farsi | لباس نظامی , خاکی رنگ . (various references) | |
French | kaki. (various references) | |
German | khaki, Kakifrucht. (various references) | |
Greek | κάκι (persimmon), χακί (hockey). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חקי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tábori barna, khakiszínű, khakiszövet. (various references) | |
Italian | kaki (kaki), cachi (kaki, persimmon). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 国防色 , オロチン酸 (28.35g, angstrom, car, ombudsman, on, on air, on parade, on stage, on the air, on the air lamp, on the mark, on the rocks, on your mark, oncogene, on-line, on-line real time system, on-line system, online-manual, only, only one, on-mike, on-off, on-side, on-site, Ontario, on-the-job training, onward, orotic acid, ounce, ovation), カーキ色 (car cooler, car sex, car stereo, cargo, casa, caste, curse, cursor, sleeping car). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こくぼうしょく, カーキいろ, カーキ . (various references) | |
Manx | loaghtyn (brown, brown of sheep). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akikhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | caqui (persimmon). (various references) | |
Romanian | kaki (olive drab), uniformã kaki. (various references) | |
Russian | хаки. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u boji zemlje, boja zemlje, žutomrka tkanina za uniforme, žutomrka boja (snuff-color, snuff-colour, tan), žutomrk (snuff, tan, tawny). (various references) | |
Shona | mbanda (khaki bush). (various references) | |
Spanish | caqui (persimmon). (various references) | |
Swedish | kaki (kaki). (various references) | |
Thai | ผ้ากากี, สีกากี, ทำด้วยผ้ากากี, ซึ่งเป็นสีกากี. (various references) | |
Turkish | haki renk (drab, olive drab), haki. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хакі, кольору хакі, військова форма, захисного кольору (battle-grey), захисний кольор. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vải kaki, có màu kaki. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "khaki": khakis. (additional references) | |
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"Khaki" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bhakti, chaka, Chakri, Haki, kacki, Kahiki, Kahk, kahki, Kahlid, Kahuku, kak, kakai, kakhi, kakie, kako, kha, khabiri, Khac, khadi, Khadiga, khafi, khakai, khakki, khali, khalif, Khalin, Khalkh, Khalkhiin, Kharif, Kharkuk, Khatir, khazi, Khepi, Khilkov, Khobi, Khuri, Khwaia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "khaki" (pronounced kÄ"kē or ka"kē) |
| 4 | k Ä" k ē | cocky. |
| 3 | -Ä" k ē | jockey, hockey, rocky, Saki, stocky, sukiyaki, teriyaki. |
| 3 | -a" k ē | Jacky, lackey, tacky, wacky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-k-k" | |
-1 letter: haik, kaki. | |
-2 letters: khi. | |
-3 letters: ah, ai, ha, hi, ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-k-k" | |
+1 letter: khakis, kishka. | |
+2 letters: khirkah, kishkas. | |
+3 letters: hawklike, kazachki, khirkahs, kickshaw. | |
+4 letters: kickshaws, milkshake, pickthank, sharklike, sharkskin. | |
+5 letters: milkshakes, pickthanks, sharkskins. | |
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