Khon vs Khan - What's the difference?
khon | khan |
A Thai form of dance with music and narration.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 9, author=Jennifer Dunning, title=Hear Them Talk and See Them Dance, Then Watch Their Cultures Clash, work=New York Times
, passage=But he has found his perfect complement in Mr. Klunchun, a practitioner of khon , a form of classical Thai masked dance, who wanders serenely with Mr. Bel through a series of cultural collisions until the gentle cataclysm that suddenly and amusingly ends the conversation. }} after Genghis Khan, a ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages
an Ottoman sultan
a noble or man of rank in various Muslim countries of Central Asia, including Afghanistan
a caravanserai; a resting-place for a travelling caravan
:* 1923': ‘Guess the name of that,’ she said, pointing to her delicate parts. The porter tried this name and that and ended by asking her to tell him and cease her slapping. ‘The '''kh?n of Abu-Mansur,’ she replied. — ''The Thousand Nights and One Night , tr. Powys Mathers
As nouns the difference between khon and khan
is that khon is a thai form of dance with music and narration while khan is a set of three of the same card.As an adjective khan is
hoarse.khon
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