foggara

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic فُقَّارَة (fuggāra).

Noun[edit]

foggara (plural foggaras)

  1. (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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