Etymology

bahira

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Arabic بَحْر
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  1. Arabic · borrowed fromبَحْر“little sea”
  2. English todaybahira

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

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