"اَلْبَحْر اَلْأَبْيَض اَلْمُتَوَسِّط"

Translation: the Mediterranean Sea

[MontereyZack]

What does اَلْمُتَوَسِّط mean literally?

[Hiba.X]

middle/intermediate

[Laiba_Hussain11]

It means mediter and أبيض means white but i dont know what is white doing here in this sentence
Hops this helps

[ToghrulNH]

What's the literal translation?

[theowlkidnappdme]

By the sound of it, its "the middle white sea"

[prero]

I keep hearing it as "al-2abiiaB". Should it not be "al-2abiiaDH"??

[ThereseDrum]

Me too.

[AzIgaziZsoozsy]

I don't, or maybe it was already corrected.

[8dexgqAn]

what about the colour white that is in the question?

[Alexi3010]

I have found out: The Mediterranean Sea is called "the middle white sea" in Arabic because of its white foam.

[j5aG11]

we also call it The Med for short, in the UK at least!

[zaibun7]

I dont know how to spelk mediterian .my answer was right .

[seksii]

The medium white sea

[CrocqSteph]

My answer "the Mediterranee" was refused. Maybe this name does not exist in english ???? Is it a shorter name fore the Mediterranean sea in arabic?

[Kas334864]

Is color white associated with West in Arabic, as in Turkish?

[virtualriver]

البحر الابيض المتوشط