Etymograph

English

Straits of Tiran

From strait + Tiran.

A compound of strait + Tiran

Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- ‘to twist’

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Latin stringō ‘compress, tighten’

Latin strictus ‘tightened, compressed, having been tightened’

Old French estreit

Middle English streit

English strait

Arabic تيران

English Tiran

Today it means

name A straits in the Red Sea, Asia. The narrowed waters that exists between the southern end of the Sinai Peninsula and the nearest mainland of the Arabian Peninsula, which contains the Island of Tiran, that separates the Gulf of Aqaba from the main body of the Red Sea.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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