bahira

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A classification of sea inlet; a depression in the land flooded by the sea during the Holocene transgression and connected to the sea by a narrow passage.

Word forms

bahira bahiras

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَحْر (baḥr, “little sea”).

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