yakhchal
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Persian یخچال (literally “ice pit”).
Noun
[edit]yakhchal (plural yakhchals)
- (architecture) An 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.
- 2016, Zeeshan Khan, Right to Passage, SAGE Publishing, Yoda Press, page 217:
- 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.
Usage notes
[edit]- Often italicised.
- There is some overlap between buildings called yakhchal and those called abanbar (“water reservoir”).