bahira
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic بَحْر (baḥr, “little sea”).
Noun
editbahira (plural bahiras)
- (oceanography) A classification of sea inlet; a depression in the land flooded by the sea during the Holocene transgression and connected to the sea by a narrow passage.
- The Etang de Diana in Corsica is a bahira type of inlet.