Wadden Sea

English

Etymology

Partial calque of Dutch Waddenzee, leaving Dutch wadden (“mudflats”) untranslated; compare with Danish Vadehavet and German Wattenmeer.

Proper noun

Wadden Sea

1. A shallow and narrow sea peripheral to the North Sea, situated between the Frisian Islands and the mainland coasts of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.

Translations

Wadden Sea

• Catalan: Mar de Wadden
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓦登海 (Wǎdēng Hǎi)

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} Waddenzee
• Danish: Vadehavet (da)
• Dutch: Waddenzee (nl) f
• Finnish: Vattimeri
• French: mer des Wadden (fr)
• Georgian: ვადენზეე (vadenzee)
• German: Wattenmeer (de) n
• Hungarian: Watt-tenger
• Irish: Muir Wadden f
• Italian: mare dei Wadden
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: ^{(please verify)} Waddensee f

  German Low German: Waddensee f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Vadehavet

  Nynorsk: Vadehavet

• Polish: Morze Wattowe (pl) n
• Portuguese: Mar Frísio
• Spanish: Mar de Frisia
• Swedish: Vadehavet
• West Frisian: Waadsee c