liman

plural limans

1. A wide estuary formed as a lagoon at the mouth of one or more rivers, where flow is constrained by a bar of sediments (created by either the current of a sea or a sediment-saturated river), especially in the Black Sea region.

   Its rising provided conditions for the formation of liman valleys along the coast. As well, meltwaters from the ice cap produced ponding, with excess water that either spilled over the low points of divides or flowed along the ice[…]

   1993 December 15, Danylo Husar Struk, Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volume V: St-Z, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN

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   Only at a point where a river, a streamlet, even a balka (step-glen, ravine) opens into the sea, is the steep incline of the steppe-plateau broken. […] This sea-water lake is called liman in Ukrainian. Wherever a stream of great volume empties into a liman, the bar is severed at one or more places.

   1918, Stephen Rudnicki, Ukraine, the Land and Its People: An Introduction to Its Geography, page 19

   Fig.5.12 The Akhtanizovsky liman delta arm […] certain limans, particularly those fed by river water, continued to decline naturally, whereas the square area of swamps, contrastingly, continued to increase. The first significant anthropogenic changes in the size and natural regime of the limans and flooded areas were initially connected with artificial changes in flow direction […]

   2016 September 28, Ruben Kosyan, The Diversity of Russian Estuaries and Lagoons Exposed to Human Influence, Springer, →ISBN, page 123

comparative more Liman · superlative most Liman · alternative Limean

1. From or pertaining to Lima in Peru.

plural Limans · alternative Limean

1. A native or inhabitant of Lima in Peru.

1. rareRare spelling of Lyman (“town in the Donbas”).

   Kharkov Region, Zmewsk District, the Donets River, between trans-Donets settlements and town of Liman; […]

   2001, Flora of Russia: The European Part and Bordering Regions, page 192

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   The Ukrainians, the Finns and the peoples of the Caucasus strove for their independence. […] After his recovery, Father had been transferred to the city of Liman.

   1949, Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina, Leap to Freedom, Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott [1949]