bahira

English

noun
Definitions
  • (oceanography) 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.

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَحْر (sea, little sea).

Origin

Arabic

بَحْر

Gloss

sea, little sea

Concept
Semantic Field

The physical world

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Person/Thing

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