Balkhash

American  

[bal-kash, bahl-kahsh, buhl-khahsh] / bælˈkæʃ, bɑlˈkɑʃ, bʌlˈxɑʃ /

Also Lake Balqash

noun

1. Lake Balkhash, a salt lake in southeastern Kazakhstan. About 7,115 sq. mi. (18,430 sq. km).

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Balkhash British  

/ balˈxaʃ /

noun

1. a salt lake in SE Kazakhstan: fed by the Ili River. Area: about 18 000 sq km (7000 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

In Balkhash, another of Karaganda region's monogorods, this means reducing dependence on the Kazakhmys copper smelter that looms by the shore of the half-freshwater, half-saline lake.

From Reuters

Workers at its 1930s-built copper smelter in Balkhash had their salaries raised by at least 35 percent this year, with one proviso: they had to pass an exam to test whether their knowledge matched their pay grade.

From Reuters

This is the case, for instance, in the Caspian sea, the Aral and Balkhash lakes, the Tarim basin, the Sahara, inner Australia, the great basin of the United States and the Titicaca basin.

From Project Gutenberg

Two employees of the copper smelter that dominates Balkhash said they would vote for Nazarbayev.

From Reuters

Just before his departure, Aviation Week reported that the Russians are developing a new mobile anti-ballistic missile system on Lake Balkhash near the Sino-Soviet border.

From Time Magazine Archive