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issyk kul

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English

Syllables
is-syk kul
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A large freshwater endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan.

name

A region of Kyrgyzstan.

Etymology

From Kyrgyz Ысык-Көл (Isık-Köl) "hot lake" via Russian Иссык-Ку́ль (Issyk-Kúlʹ).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Ысык-Көл, Иссык-Ку́ль

Inflected Forms

Ysyk-Kol (alternative) Ysyk-Köl (alternative)

Questions

What does issyk kul mean?
A large freshwater endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan.
Where does issyk kul come from?
It is traced to Russian.

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