bahr

Except that sea is an English term, not the thalassa that Plato knew, so what makes it a more natural word for the waters of the ocean than the Greek or, for that matter, the Arabic al bahr or the French la mer, or indeed any other of the hundreds of terms for the sea that exist among the myriad languages spoken around the globe?

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

Except that sea is an English term, not the thalassa that Plato knew, so what makes it a more natural word for the waters of the ocean than the Greek or, for that matter, the Arabic al bahr or the French la mer, or indeed any other of the hundreds of terms for the sea that exist among the myriad languages spoken around the globe?

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

Aw, n1ip, Ai jest caem alung… Heerz a fuzzy blanky frum mai houz, haz poneez galopeing dun tell mai 9yo Ai tuuk it frum her ruum… Nawt a possum-shaped choklit, but yew kin hab bahr ov Lindt 70% drk… iz moar gud dande Lint Bar frum Salz pokkit.

Ctrl Alt Delete cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Wate… lass nite at da bahr eye had…. wif bloo cheez dip….

Cheer up - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Pasha; among others, he was styled Asad el barr wa fil el bahr

Travels in Nubia 2004

At least one Arabic word for sexual pleasure has exactly that meaning: “Ightilam,” writes Ibn Manzur in his fourteenth-century Arab dictionary, “is to go beyond the limits, exactly like the ocean when it swells and its waves pound with a disturbed beat kal bahr haj wa dtarabat amwajuhu.”

Scheherazade Goes West Fatema Mernissi 2001

He himself informs us that the publication of his work entitled "Al bahr al Maurud" gave rise to serious disturbances at Cairo.

Mystics and Saints of Islam Claud Field 1902

[FN#134] In Persian the name would be Bahr-i-Jaur = "luck" (or fortune, "bahr") of Jaur - (or Júr -) city.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

* In Arabic and in Persian, bahr and deria are also applied at the same time to the sea, to lakes, and to rivers; and this practice, common to many nations in both worlds, has, on our ancient maps, converted lakes into rivers and rivers into lakes.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

In Arabic and in Persian, bahr and deria are also applied at the same time to the sea, to lakes, and to rivers; and this practice, common to many nations in both worlds, has, on our ancient maps, converted lakes into rivers and rivers into lakes.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814