Golf (sea)
A gulf is a larger bay . The term gulf is synonymous and is used less often.
etymology
The word "golf" was borrowed from Italian ( golfo ) into German and was used here for the first time around the middle of the 14th century. documented in reports by German Jerusalem drivers. About late Latin colpus or colfus it ultimately goes back to the ancient Greek word κόλπος kólpos (post-classical mostly κόλφος kólphos ), which was and is also used in Greek in the sense of "bay", but originally as much as " bosom " or " lap " means. The metaphorically corresponding German term “Meerbusen” is a more recent loan translation from the Latin sinus maritimus , first recorded in 1605 in the dictionary of Levinus Hulsius .
If “the Gulf” is used without a more detailed definition, today it is mostly used to refer to the Persian Gulf . B. also in word compositions such as " Gulf region " or " Gulf States ", in older texts from the time before the Gulf Wars (i.e. before 1980), however, mostly the Gulf of Mexico , the starting point of the Gulf Stream .
List of golfs
- Ambracian Gulf ( Greece )
- Anadyr Gulf ( Russia )
- Argolic Gulf (Greece)
- Gulf of Bothnia ( Sweden / Finland )
- Kochylari Bay on the Greek island of Kos
- Drin Golf ( Albania )
- Gulf of Finland (Finland / Russia / Estonia )
- Gulf of Aden ( Somalia / Djibouti / Yemen )
- Gulf of Aqaba ( Egypt / Israel / Jordan / Saudi Arabia )
- Gulf of Alaska ( USA )
- Gulf of Almería ( Spain )
- Gulf of Antalya ( Turkey )
- Gulf of Asinara ( Sardinia , Italy )
- Gulf of Batabanó ( Cuba )
- Bay of Bengal ( India / Bangladesh / Myanmar )
- Bay of Biscay (Spain / France )
- Gulf of Bohai ( China )
- Gulf of Burgas ( Bulgaria )
- Gulf of Cadiz (Spain / Portugal )
- Gulf of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy)
- Gulf of Carpentaria ( Australia )
- Gulf of Castellammare ( Sicily , Italy)
- Gulf of Darién ( Colombia )
- Gulf of Davao ( Philippines )
- Gulf of Evia (Greece)
- Gulf of Follonica (Italy)
- Gulf of Fonseca ( El Salvador / Honduras / Nicaragua )
- Gulf of Gabès ( Tunisia )
- Gulf of Gaeta (Italy)
- Gulf of Genoa (Italy)
- Gulf of Gioia (Italy)
- Gulf of Guacanayabo (Cuba)
- Gulf of Guayaquil ( Ecuador / Peru )
- Gulf of Guinea ( Ghana / Togo / Benin / Nigeria / Cameroon / Equatorial Guinea )
- Gulf of Hammamet (Tunisia)
- Gulf of İskenderun (Turkey)
- Gulf of California ( Mexico )
- Gulf of Kefalos ( Greece )
- Gulf of Khambhat ( India )
- Gulf of Corinth (Greece)
- Gulf of Kos ( Greece )
- Gulf of Liaodong ( China )
- Gulf of Leyte (Philippines)
- Gulf of Maine (USA / Canada )
- Gulf of Manfredonia (Italy)
- Gulf of Mannar (India / Sri Lanka)
- Gulf of Martaban (Myanmar)
- Gulf of Mexico (USA / Mexico / Cuba)
- Gulf of Morbihan (France)
- Gulf of Moro (Philippines)
- Gulf of Naples (Italy)
- Gulf of Oman (Iran / United Arab Emirates / Oman)
- Gulf of Oristano (Sardinia, Italy)
- Gulf of Orosei (Sardinia, Italy)
- Gulf of Panama (Panama)
- Gulf of Papua (Papua New Guinea)
- Gulf of Patras (Greece)
- Gulf of Piran (Slovenia / Croatia)
- Gulf of Policastro (Italy)
- Gulf of Roses (Spain)
- Gulf of Saint-Malo (France)
- Gulf of Saint-Tropez (France)
- Gulf of Salerno (Italy)
- Gulf of Sant'Eufemia (Italy)
- Gulf of Squillace (Italy)
- Gulf of Taranto (Italy)
- Gulf of Thailand (Malaysia / Thailand / Cambodia / Vietnam)
- Gulf of Trieste (Italy)
- Gulf of Tunis (Tunisia)
- Gulf of Tonkin (Vietnam / China)
- Gulf of Urabá ( Panama / Colombia )
- Gulf of Valencia (Spain)
- Gulf of Venice (Italy / Croatia)
- Gulf of Venezuela (Venezuela)
- Golfe du Lion (France / Spain)
- Golfe de St. Malo (France)
- Great Syrte (Libya)
- Jadebusen (Germany)
- Kiparis Gulf (Greece)
- Koreagolf (North Korea)
- Venice lagoon (Italy)
- Laconic Gulf (Greece)
- Malian Gulf (Greece)
- Messenian Gulf (Greece)
- Obbusen (Russia)
- Pagasitic Gulf (Greece)
- Persian Gulf (United Arab Emirates / Qatar / Saudi Arabia / Kuwait / Iraq / Iran)
- Petal Gulf (Greece)
- Gulf of Riga (Latvia / Estonia)
- Sakhalin Gulf (Russia)
- Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Canada)
- Saronic Gulf (Greece)
- Shelikhov Gulf (Russia)
- Singitian Gulf (Greece)
- Strymonian Gulf (Greece)
- Taimyrgolf (Russia)
- Thermaic Gulf (Greece)
- Torona Gulf (Greece)
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Kluge: Etymological dictionary of the German language. 18th edition edited by Walther Mitzka, Berlin 1960, Golf p. 264 and Meerbusen p. 469.
- ↑ Golf. In: Digital dictionary of the German language .