yakhchal
yakhchal noun: a type of icehouse, built mainly in Persia (present-day Iran), that functions as an evaporative cooler, having a domed shape above ground and a subterranean storage space.
Noun
yakhchal (plural yakhchals)
- A type of icehouse, built mainly in Persia (present-day Iran), that functions as an evaporative cooler, having a domed shape above ground and a subterranean storage space.
- Furthermore, constructions such as the Yakhchal and Abanbar, which were built exclusively to stock water, had to have direct access to water courses.2014, Somaiyeh Falahat, Re-imaging the City, Springer, page 155
- Jawaad takes us first to the Kerman Library, a stately old building with beautiful arches that, oddly enough, began life as a textile factory, and then to the parks around the yakhchal or icehouse. Yakhchals are a staggering feat of ancient engineering.2016, Zeeshan Khan, Right to Passage, SAGE Publishing, Yoda Press, page 217
Forms of yakhchal
| plural | yakhchals |
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Origin of yakhchal
Borrowed from Classical Persian یَخْچَال (yaxčāl, literally “ice pit”).
Questions about yakhchal
- What does yakhchal mean?
- Yakhchal means a type of icehouse, built mainly in Persia (present-day Iran), that functions as an evaporative cooler, having a domed shape above ground and a subterranean storage space.
- What part of speech is yakhchal?
- Yakhchal is a noun.
- What is the plural of yakhchal?
- The plural of yakhchal is yakhchals.
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