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- Crimean Tatar · borrowed fromSıvaş
- ru,uk · borrowed fromСива́ш
- English todaySyvash
From the Russian and Ukrainian Сива́ш (Syváš) and their source, the Crimean Tatar Sıvaş (literally “dirt”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Syvash
Today it means: A network of lagoons forming a western arm of the Sea of Azov, connected therewith by the Henichesk Strait through the Arabat Spit, and otherwise bound by Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast to the north, by the Isthmus of Perekop to the west, and by the Crimea to the south. Full definition →
ru,uk Сива́ш ← Crimean Tatar Sıvaş