chaikhana

== English == === Alternative forms === chaykhana === Etymology === Borrowed from Classical Persian چایخانه (čāyxāna). === Noun === chaikhana (plural chaikhanas) A teahouse in parts of Central Asia. 2013, Lucy Renner Jones, translating Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Death in Persia, Seagull Books 2013, p. 18: On the other bank, opposite our camp, a chaikhana is set on a pile of shingle. ==== Translations ====