Editing Timor Sea (section)

== Etymology ==
The Timor Sea is named after [[Timor]], the island on the other side of the sea's northern coastline.<ref name="ormeling 2000">{{cite journal |last1=Ormeling |first1=Ferjan |title=Sea Names Categories and Their Implications |journal=Journal of Geography Education, 44 |date=2000 |volume=44 |pages=54–61 |url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/docs/_data_icacourses/_HtmlModules/_Documents/D03/Documents/D03-02_Ormeling.pdf |access-date=15 April 2022}}</ref> The island's name is a variant of {{lang|ms|timur}}, [[Malay language|Malay]] for "east".

In [[Tetum language|Tetum]], the sea is often referred to by the expression {{lang|tet|tasi mane}} ({{translation|literal=yes|'male sea'}}). The counterpart of that body of water, the '[[Ombai Strait|Ombai]]-[[Wetar Strait|Wetar]] Strait', which has smaller waves, is less [[Turbidity|turbid]], and washes most of Timor island's northern shores, is commonly referred to in Tetum as {{lang|tet|tasi feto}} ({{translation|literal=yes|'female sea'}}).<ref name="hunnam 2021">{{cite journal |last1=Hunnam |first1=Kimberley |last2=Carlos |first2=Imelda |last3=Hammer |first3=Michael P. |last4=Dos Reis Lopes |first4=Joctan |last5=Mills |first5=David J. |last6=Stacey |first6=Natasha |title=Untangling Tales of Tropical Sardines: Local Knowledge From Fisheries in Timor-Leste |journal=Frontiers in Marine Science |date=2021 |volume=8 |doi=10.3389/fmars.2021.673173 |issn=2296-7745|doi-access=free |hdl=1885/277964 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>