dukhan

Ultimately from Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān, “shop”).

dukhan (plural dukhans)

1. A small restaurant, tavern or shop in the Caucasus and Crimea.
   • 1969 February, Konstantin Paustovsky, “Fame came late to Niko Pirosmani”, in Soviet Life, page 46:

     In smoky dukhans reeking of wine fumes, he saw the humble despair of ambals hoarse with fatigue, forsaken children, street musicians with hands trembling from hunger and drink, paupers with blue, sinewy necks, cigarette venders.

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