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qanat

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qanat /kəˈnɑːt / (also kanat)
▸ noun (in the Middle East) a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below.
– ORIGIN Persian, from Arabic qanāt ‘reed, pipe, channel’.