#tear

• Snag — The place, point, or loop where an object is suspended, secured, or caught onto a supporting element; snag. It also represents the defect, tear, or mark left on a fabric (garment, canvas) resulting from an accidental catch on a nail or roadside bramble. In old craftsmanship dialects, the term also referred to a temporary knot made by weavers to secure warp threads.
• Shred into pieces — A regional verbal form or archaic phonetic variant for 'hărtăni' or 'hartăni', meaning to cut, tear, or shred into large pieces (hartane / artane) meat, food, or fabrics; also, in rural dialects, it can describe the action of clumsily hacking wood or degrading a piece of clothing through careless wear.
• Avulsion — A lexicographical variant of the term 'avulsie', used in medicine to describe the brutal tearing away or detachment of an anatomical part. In a geological and legal-hydrographic sense, it represents a sudden change in a river's course or the violent tearing away of a piece of land from a fluvial property and its attachment to the opposite bank, creating specific legal effects on property rights.
• Bab el-Mandeb — A strategic maritime strait of global importance separating the eastern Horn of Africa (Djibouti and Eritrea) from the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen), forming the essential hydrographic link between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean. Etymologically known as the 'Gate of Tears' due to historical navigation hazards and local legends, this narrow waterway is a critical global chokepoint for international trade and maritime energy transport, directly linking Asian markets to the Suez Canal corridor and Europe.
• Bakhchysarai — A historical city located in the Crimean Peninsula, renowned as the former capital of the Crimean Khanate from the 16th century until the late 18th century. Its name derives from Crimean Tatar, translating literally as 'the Garden Palace', and the settlement is globally famous for the monumental architectural complex of the Khan's Palace (Hansarai) and its legendary 'Fountain of Tears', immortalized in world literature by Alexander Pushkin.