dryness, aridity · dry land (opposed to water) · drought
çekim: çoğul خشکیها
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsúškas Proto-Iranian *Hhúškah Persian خُشْک Middle Persian 𐭩𐭧 (yḥ /-īh/) Persian ـِی Persian خشکی From خُشْک + ـِی.
mainland (main landmass of a country, continent or sometimes of a group of islands) · continent
çekim: çoğul manteret · tamlayan manteren
köken: From Proto-Finnic *mandër, from Proto-Finno-Permic [Term?] or possibly from Proto-Finnic *maa. Equivalent to *mante- + -re. Cognate to Estonian mander and Veps mandreh.
a continent, perhaps the same as either châu lục (“geopolitical continent”) or lục địa (“geographical continent”) · clipping of Trung Quốc đại lục (“mainland China”)
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 大陸 (“continent”).