black sea
black sea is the alternative letter-case form of Black Sea.
Proper noun capitalized: Black Sea
the Black Sea
- An inland sea bound by Southeastern Europe in the west, Eastern Europe in the north and northeast, and Turkey in the south.
Origin of black sea
Calque of Ottoman Turkish قره دكز (Kara Deñiz, “Black Sea”) (modern Turkish Karadeniz) (from kara (“black, dark; north”) + deniz (“sea”)). Compare Russian Чёрное мо́ре (Čórnoje móre). The Turkish word is derived from the languages of the Near East, which is ultimately from an Old Iranian name: the primary Ancient Greek name Πόντος Ἄξεινος (Póntos Áxeinos) (first attested in 462 BC) is a rendering of Old Iranian *axšainah (“dark-colored”). The naming is according to the system in which color names indicated the cardinal points (black [or dark] for north, red for south, white for west, and green or light blue for east); compare Red Sea. It is supposedly named as such by the Achaemenids; see Iranica for details.
Words formed from black sea
Questions about black sea
- What does black sea mean?
- Black sea means an inland sea bound by Southeastern Europe in the west, Eastern Europe in the north and northeast, and Turkey in the south.
- What is black sea the alternative letter-case form of?
- Black sea is the alternative letter-case form of Black Sea.
- What part of speech is black sea?
- Black sea is a proper noun.
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