White Sea

English

Etymology

Calque of Russian Белое море (Beloje more)

Proper noun

the White Sea

1. A sea to the northwest of Russia.
   • 1885, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man From Archangel‎^[1]:

     We bore her down to the boat and aboard our vessel, and then getting up anchor we sailed away across the White Sea until the spires of Archangel sank down behind the horizon.

Translations

a sea to the northwest of Russia

• Afrikaans: Witsee
• Albanian: Deti i Bardhë
• Arabic: اَلْبَحْر اَلْأَبْيَض m (al-baḥr al-ʔabyaḍ)
• Armenian: Սպիտակ ծով (Spitak cov)
• Azerbaijani: Ağ dəniz (az)
• Basque: Itsaso Zuria
• Belarusian: Бе́лае мо́ра n (Bjélaje móra)
• Bengali: সাদা দরিয়া (śada doriẏa)
• Breton: Mor Gwenn m
• Bulgarian: Бя́ло мо́ре n (Bjálo móre)
• Catalan: Mar Blanca f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白海 (zh) (Báihǎi)

• Chuvash: Шурӑ тинӗс (Šură t̬inĕs)
• Czech: Bílé moře (cs)
• Danish: Hvidehavet n (definite form)
• Dutch: Witte Zee f
• Esperanto: Blanka maro
• Estonian: Valge meri (et)
• Finnish: Vienanmeri (fi)
• French: mer Blanche (fr) f
• Galician: Mar Branco m
• Georgian: თეთრი ზღვა (ka) (tetri zɣva)
• German: Weißes Meer (de) n, Weißmeer n
• Greek: Λευκή Θάλασσα f (Lefkí Thálassa)
• Hebrew: הים הלבן m (ha-yam ha-laván)
• Hindi: सफ़ेद सागर m (safed sāgar)
• Hungarian: Fehér-tenger (hu)
• Icelandic: Hvítahaf n
• Indonesian: Laut Putih
• Ingrian: Valkia meri
• Irish: an Mhuir Bhán f
• Italian: Mar Bianco m
• Japanese: 白海 (はっかい, Hakkai)
• Kazakh: Ақ теңізі (Aq teñızı)
• Korean: 백해(白海) (Baekhae)
• Kyrgyz: Ак деңиз (Ak deŋiz)
• Lao: ທະເລຂາວ (tha lē khāo)
• Latin: Mare Album n
• Latvian: Baltā jūra f
• Lithuanian: Baltoji jūra f
• Macedonian: Бе́ло Мо́ре n (Bélo Móre)
• Malay: Laut Putih
• Malayalam: വൈറ്റ് സീ (vaiṟṟŭ sī)
• Maltese: Baħar l-Abjad m
• Manx: Yn Vooir Vane f
• Marathi: सफेद समुद्र m (saphed samudra)
• Mongolian: Цагаан тэнгис (Cagaan tengis)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kvitsjøen m

  Nynorsk: Kvitsjøen m

• Persian: دریای سفید (daryâ-ye safid)
• Polish: Morze Białe (pl) n
• Portuguese: Mar Branco m
• Punjabi: ਚਿੱਟਾ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ (ciṭṭā samundar)
• Romanian: Marea Albă (ro) f
• Russian: Бе́лое мо́ре (ru) n (Béloje móre)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бијело мо̑ре n (Ijekavian), Бело мо̑ре n (Ekavian)

  Roman: Bijelo mȏre n (Ijekavian), Belo mȏre n (Ekavian)

• Slovak: Biele more n
• Slovene: Belo morje n
• Southern Altai: Ак талай (Ak talay), Ак теҥис (Ak teŋis)
• Spanish: mar Blanco m
• Swedish: Vita havet n
• Tagalog: Dagat Puti
• Tajik: Баҳри Сафед (Bahr-i Safed)
• Tamil: வெள்ளைக் கடல் (veḷḷaik kaṭal)
• Telugu: తెల్ల సముద్రం (tella samudraṁ)
• Thai: ทะเลขาว (tálay kăao)
• Tundra Nenets: Сэрако ямʼ (Serako yam)
• Turkish: Beyazdeniz (tr), Beyaz Deniz
• Ukrainian: Бі́ле мо́ре n (Bíle móre)
• Uzbek: Oq dengiz
• Vietnamese: Biển Trắng
• Welsh: Môr Gwyn m
• West Frisian: Wite See

Further reading

• White Sea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Wheaties