Arabian Sea
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- proper noun
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- Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette was fired on Oct. 27 as head of the USS JOHN C. STENNIS Carrier Strike Group while the CSG was deployed to the Arabian Sea.
- coast of the Arabian Sea
- North Arabian Sea
- Northern Arabian Sea
Examples
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Many trade routes pass through the Arabian Sea, connecting the Middle East and South Asia.
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Located in one of the world's largest and fastest-growing cities, Four Seasons Mumbai is a luxurious hotel that features 202 spacious guest rooms and suites, many of them with views of the Arabian Sea.
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I swam in the Arabian Sea, and it was warm, clean, and clear.
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Dubai faces the Arabian Sea.
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Your parents were on a chartered airship from India and it vanished somewhere over the Arabian Sea.
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Beginning around 1685, a number of marauders from the Caribbean made their way to the Arabian Sea.
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Terry, we've been ordered to the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden.
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Due to its favorable position near the shipping lane from the South Atlantic to the Arabian Sea, Saint Augustin was one of the most frequented ports in Madagascar.
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It is all built on top of a dry-as-bone desert, and virtually every drop of water comes from desalinated Arabian Sea water (I spoke to an engineer involved in this process the other night during a wedding engagement party).
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The sands too were drifting in sheets, eastward to Niger, Chad, Ethiopia, to eventually silt in the Arabian Sea.
Fiction book (2002)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Arabian' (pertaining to Arabia) + 'sea' (a large body of saltwater) yields a sea associated with Arabia. This geographically descriptive naming pattern is common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the general meaning (the sea near Arabia) even if they do not know exact boundaries.
Etymology
Arabian Sea gets its name from the land called 'Arabia' on its western shore: Arabian means from Arabia and Sea means a large body of water. So the name points to the part of the Indian Ocean that lies between 'Arabia' and the land of 'India'.