marsh

See also: Marsh

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑɹʃ/ (US)
• IPA^(key): /mɑː(ɹ)ʃ/ (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃ

Etymology

From Middle English mersh, mershe, from Old English merisc, mersc, from Proto-Germanic *mariskaz (cf. West Frisian mersk, Dutch meers (“grassland, meadow”), German Marsch), from *mari ‘mere’. More at mere.

Noun

marsh (plural marshes)

1. An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.

Coordinate terms

• bog
• moor
• swamp

Translations

area of low, wet land

• Afrikaans: moeras
• Arabic: هور m (haur)
• Armenian: ճահիճ (čahič), ճահճուտ (čahčut)

  Old Armenian: ճահիճ (čahič), եղտիւր (ełtiwr)

• Basque: zingira f
• Bulgarian: блато (bg) n (blato), мочурище (bg) n (močurište), тресавище (bg) n (tresavište)
• Catalan: aiguamoll m
• Chamicuro: pnajmule
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沼澤, 沼泽 (zh) (zhǎozé)

• Danish: mose (da)
• Dutch: moeras (nl) n
• Esperanto: marĉo (eo)
• Estonian: lodu
• Finnish: marskimaa
• French: marais (fr)
• German: Moor (de) n, Sumpf (de) m, Marsch (de) f
• Greek: έλος (el) n (élos)
• Hebrew: ביצה (he) f (bitza)
• Hungarian: mocsár (hu)
• Icelandic: mýri (is)
• Ido: marsho (io)
• Italian: palude (it) f
• Japanese: 湿地 (ja) (しっち, shicchi), 湿原 (しつげん, shitsugen)

• Jèrriais: mathais m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: زه‌لکاو (zelkaw)

• Latin: palūs f
• Lithuanian: pelkė (lt)
• Malayalam: ചതുപ്പു നിലം (chathuppu nilam)
• Manx: curragh m
• Norman: mathais
• Norwegian: mersk m
• Old English: mersc, merisc
• Persian: مانداب (fa) (mândâb), مرداب (fa) (mordâb), هور (fa) (howr)
• Polish: bagno (pl) n
• Portuguese: marisma, pântano (pt)
• Russian: болото (ru) n (bolóto)
• Scottish Gaelic: lèana m, boglach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мочвара f

  Roman: močvara f

• Spanish: ciénaga (es) f, marisma f, pantano m
• Swedish: kärr (sv)
• Turkish: bataklık (tr)
• Uyghur: سازلىق (sazliq)
• Welsh: cors (cy) f

Derived terms

• marsh deer

See also

• marshmallow
• slack

References

• Oxford-Paravia Concise - Dizionario Inglese-Italiano e Italiano-Inglese (in collaborazione con Oxford University Press). Edited by Maria Cristina Bareggi. Torino: Paravia, 2003. ISBN 8839551107. Online version here

Anagrams

• harms