kh

The name comes from the Persian word khâk (dust/ashes), which came to English from India, specifically via the British Indian Army.

I get email... Reader Tim challenges me with "Khaki" - dfi 2009

( "There's no" K "in Klingon, and that's that!" he insisted, illustrating the raspy, back-of-the-throat "kh" - type consonants he'd woven into the lingo instead).

Theater Review: Washington Shakespeare Company's evening of the Bard in Klingon Celia Wren 2010

Miracles are in fact called khāriq al - ` ādah, that which breaks the habit of the mind to connect two phenomena together as cause and effect.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968

It's actually a word imported from Persian, as is keema (the transliteration using "kh" would be wrong: a better option would be qima).

Safaid Keema, Maybe?: Ground Meat with Potatoes In Scented (Off) White Sauce Laura 2009

Gaidar is the ideal scout leader; neither Khaidar with its sinister "kh" nor, say, "Aydarov" an actual surname would do the trick.

languagehat.com: GAIDAR/KHAIDAR. 2005

It was pronounced with a hard kh, which is the first letter of Christ’s name in Greek.

Lean Left » Blog Archive » The Real War on Christmas 2005

Scottish ch, like Arabic 'kh', phonetic symbol χ, cf.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

"kh" in words such as back, are becoming more prominent and widespread.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

She was gritting her teeth, making frightful grimaces, snarling, uttering sharp and continuous cries that sounded like "kh-ah! kh-ah!"

CHAPTER III 2010

Today's entry question comes from kh: Which hero would you like to be stranded with on an island?

Archive 2009-02-01 Nalini Singh 2009