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Syvash.

A network of lagoons forming a western arm of the Sea of Azov, connected therewith by the Henichesk Strait through the Arabat Spit, and otherwise bound by Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast to the north, by the Isthmus of Perekop to the west, and by the Crimea to the south.

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Meaning & usage

name/sɪvˈaʃ/
  1. A network of lagoons forming a western arm of the Sea of Azov, connected therewith by the Henichesk Strait through the Arabat Spit, and otherwise bound by Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast to the north, by the Isthmus of Perekop to the west, and by the Crimea to the south.

  2. A former village in Pervomaiskyi miskrada, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1777, annexed to the city of Pervomaiskyi (now Zlatopil) in July 1994.

  3. A rural settlement in Henichesk urban hromada, Henichesk Raion, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1874.

Where this word comes from

From the Russian and Ukrainian Сива́ш (Syváš) and their source, the Crimean Tatar Sıvaş (literally “dirt”).

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