Meaning of qanat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley
2. Alternative spelling of qanat.
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Equivalents

Examples

“Shafts are dug to the required level along the planned route of the qanat, every 300 m or so […].”

“Elsewhere over large areas of the plateau and the foothill regions, the qanat irrigation cultures were weakened considerably.”

“Its gardens are watered by rivers that invariably flow⟳ underground, like⟳ the subterranean qanat'''s developed by the Persians.”

“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 [...]”

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