Dictionary

coss en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /kɒs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani کوس / कोस (kos). Doublet of krosa.

Meanings

1. (British, India, South-Asia) A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
   • A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein. 1888, Rudyard Kipling, 'In Flood Time', In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, pages 410–11:
   • […] the distances (computed by marching-time as well as by reference to the Népálese kós of 2⅓ miles each) […] 1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya Mountains and Nepal, p. 85

Forms

coss en · ADJ · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of khass.
   alt of khass

Relateds

rule of coss