karst
karst · karsts
карст
Karst
A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of…A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
UK/kɑːst/US/kɑɹst/
Meaning
1 sensesA type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
Karst
карстkarst
Translations
7 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
type of land formation:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
type of land formation:
Origin
Borrowed from German Karst. The German term and the Slovene placename Kras (the Karst PlatBorrowed from German Karst. The German term and the Slovene placename Kras (the Karst Plateau) are from Proto-Slavic *korsъ, from Italo-Dalmatian carsus (cf. Italian carso), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“hard; rock”). More at Karst.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source