qanāt

A form of qanat — An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley

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Meanings

nounqanāt (plural qanāts)

plural qanāts

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of qanat.

    It sometimes happens that a qanāt waters more than one village; where this is the case each village has a prescriptive right to the water [...]

    1991, Ann K. S. Lambton, Landlord and Peasant in Persia: A Study of Land Tenure and Land Revenue Administration, page 220
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Chicago

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