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語源

From Kazakh арал (aral, “island”), referring to the more than 1,500 islands that once dotted its waters.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɹəl siː/

固有名詞

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.