Aral Sea Definition
ărəl
pronoun
A saline lake straddling the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border, that was once large, but that has shrunk 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.
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Origin of Aral Sea
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From Kazakh арал (aral, “island”), referring to the more than 1,500 islands that once dotted its waters.
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