tykhana

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English

Etymology

From Urdu تہ خانہ (teh xānā).

Pronunciation

Noun

tykhana (plural tykhanas)

  1. (India) An underground chamber in which to keep cool during the heat of the day.
    • 1993, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns, Penguin, published 2004, page 125:
      The ‘basement’ Mr Prashad had saved from destruction seems in fact to have been the largest and best preserved Mughal tykhana to have survived in Delhi up to the present day […].

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