yakhchalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Persian یخچال‎ (字義どおりに “ice pit”).

名詞

yakhchal (複数形 yakhchals)

1. (architecture) An type of icehouse, built mainly in Persia (present-day Iran), that functions as an evaporative cooler, having a domed shape above ground and a subterranean storage space.
   • 2014, Somaiyeh Falahat, Re-imaging the City, Springer, page 155,

     Furthermore, constructions such as the Yakhchal and Abanbar, which were built exclusively to stock water, had to have direct access to water courses.

   • 2016, Zeeshan Khan, Right to Passage, SAGE Publishing, Yoda Press, page 217,

     Jawaad takes us first to the Kerman Library, a stately old building with beautiful arches that, oddly enough, began life as a textile factory, and then to the parks around the yakhchal or icehouse. Yakhchals are a staggering feat of ancient engineering.

   • 2019, Amir A. Afkhami, A Modern Contagion, JHU Press, page 151,

     Owners of ice pits (yakhchal) were required to guarantee the purity and hygiene of the water and pits that they used in making ice.

使用する際の注意点

• Often italicised.
• There is some overlap between buildings called yakhchal and those called abanbar (“water reservoir”).

Further reading

• Ab anbar on Wikipedia.