English Explanatory Dictionary

foggara

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

foggara foggaras

Etymology

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic فُقَّارَة (fuggāra).

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