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tykhana

/taɪˈkɑːnə/

tykhana noun: an underground chamber in which to keep cool during the heat of the day.

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 tykhana

pluraltykhanas

Origin of tykhana

From Urdu تہ خانہ (teh xānā).

Questions about tykhana

What does tykhana mean?
Tykhana means an underground chamber in which to keep cool during the heat of the day.
What part of speech is tykhana?
Tykhana is a noun.
How do you pronounce tykhana?
Tykhana is pronounced /taɪˈkɑːnə/.
What is the plural of tykhana?
The plural of tykhana is tykhanas.

Words near tykhana in the dictionary

  1. tyiyn
  2. tyiyns
  3. tyke
  4. Tykeia
  5. tykes
  6. tykhana
  7. tykhanas
  8. Tykhon
  9. tykish
  10. tyl-
  11. tylakoid

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