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
- 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
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