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Liman
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- 1 From or pertaining to Lima in Peru.
- 1 Rare spelling of Lyman (“town in the Donbas”). alt-of, rare
"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."
- 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.
"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."
- 2 A native or inhabitant of Lima in Peru.
- 3 a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river wordnet
Etymology
From Russian лима́н (limán) or Ukrainian лима́н (lymán), from Turkic, compare Turkish liman (“port, harbor”). Ultimately from Ancient Greek λιμήν (limḗn, “harbor”).
From Lima + -an.
From Lima + -an.
From Russian Лима́н (Limán) or alternative transliteration of Ukrainian Лима́н (Lymán).
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