bahira

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَحْر‎ (baḥr, “little sea”).

Noun

bahira (plural bahiras)

  1. (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.
    The Etang de Diana in Corsica is a bahira type of inlet.
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