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foggara

foggara noun: an underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley; a qanat.

Noun

foggara (plural foggaras)

  1. (Africa, North) An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley; a qanat.

Forms of foggara

pluralfoggaras

Origin of foggara

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic فُقَّارَة (fuggāra).

Questions about foggara

What does foggara mean?
Foggara means an underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley; a qanat.
What part of speech is foggara?
Foggara is a noun.
What is the plural of foggara?
The plural of foggara is foggaras.

Words near foggara in the dictionary

  1. foggable
  2. foggage
  3. foggaged
  4. foggages
  5. foggaging
  6. foggara
  7. foggaras
  8. Foggathorpe
  9. Fogge
  10. fogged
  11. fogged a mirror

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