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dead sea

/ˈdɛd ˈsiː/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English

Syllables
dead- sea
IPA
/ˈdɛd ˈsiː/
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A lake in the Middle East in Palestine and Jordan, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest land-based elevation on Earth.

name

Alternative letter-case form of Dead Sea.

Etymology

Calque of Latin Mare Mortuus, under influence from Byzantine Greek Νεκρά Θάλασσα (Nekrá Thálassa) and Arabic اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت (al-baḥr al-mayyit).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت

Inflected Forms

the Dead Sea (canonical)

Phrases

Dead Sea apple Dead Sea effect with all the salt in the Dead Sea

Synonyms

Salt Sea Sea of Sodom Lake Asphaltites

Questions

How do you pronounce dead sea?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɛd ˈsiː/.
What does dead sea mean?
A lake in the Middle East in Palestine and Jordan, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest land-based elevation on Earth.
Where does dead sea come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

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