Mannar

American  

[muh-nahr] / məˈnɑr /

noun

1. Gulf of, an inlet of the Indian Ocean, bounded by W Sri Lanka, the chain of shoals that comprise Adam's Bridge, and S India.

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Mannar British  

/ məˈnɑː /

noun

1. the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing

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Example Sentences

If real, the pearls would have been harvested by pearl divers in the Gulf of Mannar, between present day Sri Lanka and India.

From New York Times • May 25, 2023

For months, no kerosene was available at all in Mannar as the country's foreign exchange reserves dried up and it was unable to import crude for its refineries.

From Reuters • Sep. 7, 2022

Premadasa’s supporters organized the convoy of Muslims who had fled their homes in the northern district of Mannar in 1982, when the Tamil insurgency began to grow.

From Washington Times • Nov. 16, 2019

Like most people in Mannar, Croos fled his home for the first time in 1985, two years after the war broke out, leaving Pesalai by night to sail with his family for Rameswaram.

From Slate • Sep. 19, 2016

There I fell to thinking about the incidents that marked our excursion over the Mannar oysterbank.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.