marsh

See also: Marsh

English

Etymology

From Middle English mersh, mershe, from Old English mersċ, merisċ, from Proto-Germanic *mariskaz, derived from *mari, equivalent to mere (“sea, body of water”) +‎ -ish. Cognate with West Frisian mersk, Dutch meers (“grassland, meadow”), German Marsch. More at mere.

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃ

Noun

marsh (plural marshes)

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

Coordinate terms

• bog
• moor
• swamp

Derived terms

• marsh deer
• marshland

Translations

area of low, wet land

• Afrikaans: moeras
• Arabic: هَوْر‎‎ m (hawr)
• Armenian: ճահիճ (hy) (čahič), ճահճուտ (hy) (čahčut)

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

• Assamese: জলাহ (zolah), পিটনি (pitoni)
• Bashkir: һаҙ (hað)
• Basque: zingira f
• Bulgarian: блато (bg) n (blato), мочурище n (močurište), тресавище (bg) n (tresavište)
• Catalan: aiguamoll (ca) m
• Chamicuro: pnajmule
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沼澤 (zh), 沼泽 (zh) (zhǎozé)

• Danish: mose (da)
• Dutch: moeras (nl) n, broek (nl) n, moer (nl) n
• Eastern Bontoc: mamakpat ay lota mamapsong
• Esperanto: marĉo (eo)
• Estonian: lodu
• Finnish: marskimaa (fi)
• French: marais (fr)
• Friulian: palût m, palûd
• Galician: braña (gl) f, lamazal (gl) m, aluteiro m, groto (gl) m, groteiro m, lameiro (gl) m, corgo m, ulló m, marnel m, bufedal m, lenteiro m, trolla f, lagumeiro m
• Georgian: ჭაობი (č̣aobi), ჭანჭრობი (č̣anč̣robi)
• German: Moor (de) nSumpf (de) m, Marsch (de) f
• Greek: έλος (el) n (élos)

  Ancient Greek: ἕλος n (hélos)

• Hebrew: ביצה‎‎ (he) f (bitza)
• Hungarian: mocsár (hu)
• Icelandic: mýri (is)
• Ido: marsho (io)
• Ilocano: tanggal, alog
• Irish: corcach f, corrach m, eanach m, riasc m, seascann m
• Italian: palude (it) f
• Japanese: 湿地 (ja) (しっち, shicchi), 湿原 (しつげん, shitsugen)

• Korean: 습지 (ko) (seupji), 늪지 (neupji), 소택 (ko) (sotaek)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: زه‌لکاو‎‎ (ku) (zelkaw)

• Latin: palūs f
• Latvian: purvs m, purvājs m, muklājs (lv) m, staignums m
• Lithuanian: pelkė (lt)
• Lubuagan Kalinga: byangbyang
• Luxembourgish: Mouer m, n
• Malayalam: ചതുപ്പു നിലം (catuppu nilaṃ)
• Manx: curragh m
• Norman: mathais m
• Norwegian: mersk m

  Bokmål: myr m, f

  Nynorsk: myr f

• Old English: mersc, merisc
• Persian: مانداب‎‎ (fa) (mândâb), مرداب‎‎ (fa) (mordâb), هور‎‎ (fa) (howr)
• Polish: bagno (pl) n, moczar m, mokradło (pl) n
• Portuguese: marisma, pântano (pt)
• Russian: боло́то (ru) n (bolóto)
• Scottish Gaelic: lèana m, boglach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мочвара f

  Roman: močvara (sh) f

• Shor: сас (sas)
• Southern Kalinga: chakor wi tabwa
• Spanish: ciénaga (es) f, marisma (es) f, pantano (es) m
• Swedish: kärr (sv)
• Tagalog: lati
• Turkish: bataklık (tr)
• Uyghur: سازلىق‎‎ (sazliq)
• Vietnamese: đồng lầy, cánh đồng lầy, vùng đồng lầy
• Welsh: cors (cy) f
• Westrobothnian: flyj n
• Yucatec Maya: luuk ha', ch'uul ha'

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, Sharm, harms, mahrs, shram