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bahira

Noun

Meaning

bahira (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.

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Examples

Armand Abel, Bahira, Encyclopaedia of Islam Little is known of Muhammad during his later youth, available information is fragmented, causing difficulty to separate history from legend. Source: Internet

Islamic tradition states that when Muhammad was either nine or twelve while accompanying the Meccans' caravan to Syria, he met a Christian monk or hermit named Bahira who is said to have foreseen Muhammad's career as a prophet of God. Source: Internet

Today it is called Bahira Atayba, the hesitant lake, because in years of severe drought it does not even exist. Source: Internet

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