haikal

• haykal

Borrowed from Arabic هَيْكَل (haykal).

haikal (plural haikals)

1. The central chapel of the three forming the sanctuary of a Coptic church. It contains the high altar, and is often closed off by a screen.

• “haikal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Laikha