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

1. 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

• Afrikaans: Aralmeer
• Albanian: Deti Aral
• Arabic: بَحْر آرَال m (baḥr ʔārāl)
• Armenian: Արալյան ծով (hy) (Aralyan cov)
• Azerbaijani: Aral gölü
• Basque: Aral itsasoa
• Belarusian: Ара́льскае мо́ра n (Arálʹskaje móra)
• Bengali: আরাল সাগর (aral śagor)
• Breton: Mor Aral m
• Bulgarian: Ара́лско мо́ре n (Arálsko móre)
• Catalan: llac d'Aral m, mar d'Aral f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹹海 / 咸海 (zh) (Xiánhǎi)

• Chuvash: Арал тенӗсӗ (Aral t̬enĕs̬ĕ)
• Czech: Aralské jezero (cs) n
• Danish: Aralsøen c
• Dutch: Aralmeer n
• Esperanto: Aralo, Arala maro, Arala lago, Aral-lago
• Estonian: Araali meri
• Finnish: Araljärvi (fi)
• French: mer d’Aral (fr) f
• Galician: Mar de Aral m
• Georgian: არალის ზღვა (aralis zɣva)
• German: Aralsee (de) m
• Greek: Αράλη (el) f (Aráli)
• Gujarati: અરાલ સમુદ્ર (arāl samudra)
• Hebrew: ימת אראל f (yámat áral)
• Hindi: अरल सागर (aral sāgar)
• Hungarian: Aral-tó (hu)
• Icelandic: Aralvatn f
• Indonesian: Laut Aral
• Irish: Muir Aral m
• Italian: Aral m, lago d'Aral m
• Japanese: アラル海 (Araru-kai)
• Kazakh: Арал теңізі (kk) (Aral teñızı)
• Korean: 아랄 해 (Aral hae)
• Kyrgyz: Арал деңизи (Aral deŋizi)
• Latin: Lacus Oxianus m
• Latvian: Arāla jūra f
• Lithuanian: Aralo jūra f
• Macedonian: Аралско Езеро n (Aralsko Ezero)
• Malay: Laut Aral
• Malayalam: അരാൽ കടൽ (arāl kaṭal)
• Marathi: अरल समुद्र (aral samudra)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Aralsjøen m

  Nynorsk: Aralsjøen m

• Persian: دریاچه خوارزم (daryâče-ye xorazm)
• Polish: Jezioro Aralskie (pl) n
• Portuguese: Mar de Aral m
• Punjabi: ਅਰਾਲ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ (arāl samundar)
• Romanian: Marea Aral f
• Russian: Ара́льское мо́ре (ru) n (Arálʹskoje móre)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Аралско море n, Аралско језеро n

  Roman: Aralsko more n, Aralsko jezero (sh) n

• Slovak: Aralské jazero n
• Slovene: Aralsko jezero (sl) n
• Spanish: mar de Aral m
• Swedish: Aralsjön c
• Tajik: Баҳри Арал (Bahr-i Aral)
• Tamil: ஏரல் கடல் (ēral kaṭal)
• Thai: ทะเลอารัล (tá-lee aa-ral)
• Turkish: Aral Gölü
• Ukrainian: Ара́льське мо́ре n (Arálʹsʹke móre)
• Uyghur: ئارال دېڭىزى (aral dë'ngizi)
• Uzbek: Orol Dengizi
• Vietnamese: biển Aral
• Welsh: Môr Aral m
• West Frisian: Aralmar