barchan
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Russian барха́н (barxán), from Kazakh барқан (barqan).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /bɑː(ɹ)ˈkɑːn/, /bɑː(ɹ)ˈxɑːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun[edit]
barchan (plural barchans)
- An arc-shaped sand ridge comprising well-sorted sand.
- 1966, Edwin Sherbon Hills, Arid Lands: A Geographical Appraisal[1], page 72:
- The sand is usually very well sorted in barchans, for it is constantly re-worked as the dune ‘marches’. The marching also causes cross-bedding inside the barchan, with a dip parallel to the sand-fall face.
- 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 69:
- But to follow the dunes around the foot of their slopes is also tedious and one can walk for half a kilometre east or west, finding one barchan linked to another and no easy way through […] .
- 2008, Julie Laity, Deserts and Desert Environments[2], page 205:
- Barchans and transverse dunes are essentially of the same type, forming and migrating under a unidirectional wind regime. The difference between the two is related to the amount of sand: barchans are isolated mounds, whereas transverse dunes are composed of many barchans coalesced into a single, longer dune form (Tsoar 2001).
- 2010, Robert S. Anderson, Suzanne P. Anderson, Geomorphology: The Mechanics and Chemistry of Landscapes[3], page 482:
- Perhaps the most distinctive is the barchan dune, an isolated crescentic form with arms that stretch downwind. Barchans are not huge, often with heights of only a few meters.
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Translations[edit]
arc-shaped sand ridge
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Polish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Old Polish barchan, from Old High German barchan, from Arabic بركان.
Noun[edit]
barchan m inan
Declension[edit]
Declension of barchan
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | barchan | barchany |
genitive | barchanu | barchanów |
dative | barchanowi | barchanom |
accusative | barchan | barchany |
instrumental | barchanem | barchanami |
locative | barchanie | barchanach |
vocative | barchanie | barchany |
Derived terms[edit]
adjective
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Kazakh барқан (barqan) or from Turkmen.
Noun[edit]
barchan m inan
Declension[edit]
Declension of barchan
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | barchan | barchany |
genitive | barchanu | barchanów |
dative | barchanowi | barchanom |
accusative | barchan | barchany |
instrumental | barchanem | barchanami |
locative | barchanie | barchanach |
vocative | barchanie | barchany |
Derived terms[edit]
adjective
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