"kyai" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: kyais [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} kyai (plural kyais)
  1. A Javanese Islamic cleric or expert on Islam. Wikipedia link: kyai Categories (topical): Islam

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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