zindanhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zindan_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezindan, n.
Revised 2021

zindannoun

  1. 1844–
    In Turkey and central Asia: a place in which people are held captive; a prison, a dungeon.
    1. 1844
      The Zindan, or Dungeon [in Bukhara], is to the east of the Ark, with two compartments: the Zindan-i-bala (the upper dungeon) and the Zindan-i-poin (the lower dungeon).
      Examiner 28 December 820/1
    2. 1855
      The filthy zindans of Turkey are not the places to force men into that we may have to do with them on friendly terms hereafter.
      O. T. Parnauevel, Trip to Turkey 136
    3. 2004
      In the mountains, hostages lived with their guards in special dugouts made in the woods. Balburov was kept in such a zindan for more than two months.
      V. Tishkov, Chechnya viii. 122

zindan, n. was revised in March 2021.

zindan, n. was last modified in December 2024.