Aral Sea

English

Satellite images of the Aral Sea in 1989 (left) and in 2008 (right).

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɹəl siː/

Proper noun

Aral Sea

1. 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.

Translations

Aral Sea

• Armenian: Արալյան ծով (hy) (Aralyan cov)
• Catalan: llac d'Aral m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹹海／咸海 (zh) (Xiánhǎi), 咸海 (zh) (Xiánhǎi)

• Danish: Aralsøen
• Esperanto: Aralo, Arala maro, Arala lago, Aral-lago
• Finnish: Araljärvi (fi)
• French: mer d’Aral (fr) f
• Georgian: არალის ზღვა (aralis zɣva)
• German: Aralsee (de) m
• Hungarian: Aral-tó
• Italian: Aral m, lago d'Aral m
• Japanese: アラル海 (Araru-kai)
• Kazakh: Арал Теңізі (Aral Teñızı)
• Korean: 아랄 해 (Aral hae)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Aralsjøen

  Nynorsk: Aralsjøen

• Persian: دریاچه خوارزم (Daryocha-i Khorazm)
• Polish: Jezioro Aralskie (pl)
• Portuguese: Mar de Aral m
• Russian: Ара́льское мо́ре (ru) n (Arálʹskoje móre)
• Serbo-Croatian: Aralsko more
• Spanish: mar de Aral m
• Swedish: Aralsjön
• Tajik: Баҳри Арал (Bahri Aral)
• Ukrainian: Ара́льське мо́ре n (Arálʹsʹke móre)
• Uyghur: ئارال دېڭىزى (aral dë'ngizi)
• Uzbek: Orol Dengizi