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Khamba

Khamba can refer to:

  • Tibetans who live in the historic region of Kham which covers parts of modern Qinghai, Western Sichuan, Northern Yunnan and the Tibet Autonomous Region
  • the Khamba people of Arunachal Pradesh
  • Mumbai slang for a 720ml bottle of whiskey/vodka/rum
  • Gursimran Khamba, Indian Comedian.

Usage examples of "khamba".

Hayward, with Khamba tribesmen and bears and snow-leopards to worry about.

It lay a mile from the trail, and some five miles north of the pass, a huddle of tiny hovels occupied by Khamba tribesmen.

I wondered how Vernon Quayle hoped to travel safely, and to stay unharmed in the village of Shekhar among the Khamba tribesmen there, but I had little doubt he would be fully in control of the situation.

Nimrod rearing on his hind legs, hooves pawing the air, threatening a Khamba who had drawn a long knife.

I flung a glance over my shoulder as the weapon cracked again, and saw the Khamba only twenty paces behind me suddenly knocked from his horse as if struck by an invisible giant.

As he did so a third Khamba dropped, and began to roll limply down the slope.

Fort Khamba during the bitter 1948 war between India and Pakistan for Kashmir.

Fort Khamba are very careful to put out cups of tea and sweets for the lonely Gurkha ghost, who maintains his vigil throughout the night.

He was tall for a Chinese, nearly six foot, one of the northern types akin to the Khamba Tibetan, big-boned and long-headed.