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 (as) (zolah), পিটনি (as) (pitoni)
• Bashkir: һаҙ (hað)
• Basque: zingira f
• Bulgarian: блато (bg) n (blato), мочурище n (močurište), тресавище (bg) n (tresavište)
• Catalan: aiguamoll 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
• French: marais (fr)
• Friulian: palût m, palûd
• Galician: braña (gl) f, lamazal (gl) m, aluteiro m, groto (gl) m, groteiro (gl) m, lameiro (gl) m, corgo (gl) m, ulló (gl) m, marnel (gl) m, bufedal (gl) m, lenteiro (gl) m, trolla (gl) f, lagumeiro (gl) 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 (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 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

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