foggara

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic فُقَّارَة (fuggāra).

Noun edit

foggara (plural foggaras)

(North Africa) An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley; a qanat.

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