English Explanatory Dictionary

Aral Sea

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A saline lake, straddling the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border, that was once large, but shrank to a quarter of its original size after the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, which previously flowed into it, were diverted for irrigation purposes during the Soviet era.

Pronunciation

/ˈɑːɹəl siː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Aral Sea.wav

Word forms

Aral Sea the Aral Sea

Etymology

From Kazakh арал (aral, “an island”), referring to the more than 1,500 islands that once dotted its waters.

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