badlands

See also: Badlands

English

Etymology

Calque of Canadian French mauvaise terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota mako sica (“land bad”), synchronically equivalent to bad +‎ lands.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæd.lændz/

Noun

badlands (plural badlands)

1. (geomorphology) An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.

Synonyms

• desert
• moonscape
• malpaís

Translations

arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks

• Arabic: وَعْر m (waʕr)
• Catalan: badlands f pl
• Danish: badland n
• Faroese: illlendi n
• French: Mauvaises Terres (fr) f pl, badlands (fr) m
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• Irish: drochthailte f pl
• Leonese: páramu
• Spanish: tierras baldías f pl
• Welsh: garwdiroedd m pl