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单词 liman
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limann.

/liːˈmɑːn/
Etymology: < Russian liman estuary; applied to the salt marshes at the mouths of the Dnieper (compare Turkish liman harbour, modern Greek λίμανι, ? Greek λιμήν).
(See quots.)
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > marsh in river-mouth
mud-land1791
liman1858
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Liman, a shallow narrow lagoon, at the mouth of rivers, where salt is made.
1859 G. Rawlinson tr. Herodotus Hist. III. iv. liii. 48 (note) The word in the Greek..is rather ‘marsh’ than ‘lake’, and the liman of the Dniepr is in point of fact so shallow as almost to deserve the name.
1879 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Liman, the deposit of slime at the mouth of a river.
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