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tyekhana

tyekhana is the alternative form of tykhana.

Meaning of tykhana

Noun

tykhana (plural tykhanas)

  1. (India) An underground chamber in which to keep cool during the heat of the day.
    • The ‘basement’ Mr Prashad had saved from destruction seems in fact to have been the largest and best preserved Mughal tykhana to have survived in Delhi up to the present day […].1993, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns, Penguin, published 2004, page 125

Forms of tyekhana

pluraltyekhanas

Questions about tyekhana

What is tyekhana the alternative form of?
Tyekhana is the alternative form of tykhana.

Words near tyekhana in the dictionary

  1. tyee
  2. tyees
  3. tyeing
  4. tyek
  5. tyeken
  6. tyekhana
  7. tyekhanas
  8. tyekin
  9. tyeks
  10. Tyemeri
  11. Tyemerri

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