Definition of "khaya" [khaya]

• A native house or hut. (noun)
• Servant's quarters separated from the main house. (noun)
• Anyone's house or home. (noun)
• Khaya, a genus of African timber trees (family Meliaceae) with wood closely resembling mahogany (noun)
• Any tree of the genus Khaya. (noun)

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• "There, I continued my affair with rice puddings, exploring variations like Spanish arroz con leche , Indian kheer and khao niao sang khaya —a sticky rice and coconut custard that's popular in Thailand."
• "Meera, I made sweet shankarpalis and the dough made me think of cookies, my son also carried few to his playschool n when back told me 'aatik poora cookies khaya' :D I just got the thought..what if I had baked it..here you hv implemented it!"
• "State Housing Board, uses lyrics from the Aamir Khan movie Peepli Live's song ( "Saki saiya to khoobe kamat hai, mehagai daayan khaya jaat hai") and describes the definition of a daayan in his signed editorial, saying that a daayan doesn't spare even her own children."