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aral sea

/ˈɑːɹəl siː/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English

Syllables
ar-al sea
IPA
/ˈɑːɹəl siː/
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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.

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

the Aral Sea (canonical)

Questions

How do you pronounce aral sea?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɑːɹəl siː/.
What does aral sea mean?
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.
Where does aral sea come from?
From Kazakh арал (aral, “an island”), referring to the more than 1,500 islands that once dotted its waters.

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