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Definition of syrdarya in English Turkish dictionary
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Definition of syrdarya in English English dictionary
- (Coğrafya) The Syr Darya (Persian: سيردريا; Tajik: Сирдарё; Kazakh: Сырдария ; Arabic: سيحون; Uzbek: Sirdaryo), also transliterated Syrdarya or Sirdaryo, is a river in Central Asia, sometimes known as the Jaxartes or Yaxartes from its Ancient Greek name Ἰαξάρτης. The Greek name is derived from Old Persian, Yakhsha Arta ("Great Pearly"), a reference to the color of the river's water. In medieval Islamic writings, the river is uniformly known as Sayhoun (سيحون) - after one of the four rivers of Paradise. (Amu Darya was likewise known as Jayhoun, the name of another one of the four)