marsh

See also: Marsh

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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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

• Berkley Marsh
• Burgh le Marsh
• Dilton Marsh
• Hardington Marsh
• Marsh Barton
• Marsh Benham
• marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)
• marsh elder (Iva spp.}
• Marsh Gibbon
• marshland
• Marsh Mills
• Moreton-in-Marsh
• St Philip's Marsh
• Thorpe Marsh

 

Translations

area of low, wet land

• Afrikaans: moeras
• Albanian: kënetë (sq)
• Arabic: نَعْصَة‎ (naʿṣa), مُسْتَنْقَع‎ (mustanqaʿ)
• 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)

• Coptic: ϩⲉⲗⲟⲥ m (helos)
• Czech: bažina (cs) f, močál m, mokřad (cs) m
• 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), suo (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 (gl) m, ulló m, marnel m, bufedal m, lenteiro m, trolla f, lagumeiro m
• Georgian: ჭაობი (č̣aobi), ჭანჭრობი (č̣anč̣robi)
• German: Marsch (de) f, Moor (de) n, Sumpf (de) m, Sumpfgebiet (de) n, Sumpfland (de) n, Bruch (de) m or n
• Greek: έλος (el) n (élos)

  Ancient: ἕλος n (hélos), τέλμα n (télma)

• Hebrew: ביצה‎ (he) f (bitza)
• Hungarian: mocsár (hu), láp (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 (ja) (しつげん, shitsugen)
• Korean: 습지 (ko) (seupji), 늪지 (neupji), 소택 (ko) (sotaek)

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زەلکاو‎ (ku) (zelkaw)

• Latin: palūs f, lāma f
• Latvian: purvs m, purvājs m, muklājs (lv) m, staignums m
• Lithuanian: pelkė (lt)
• Lubuagan Kalinga: byangbyang
• Luxembourgish: Mouer (lb) m or n
• Malay: rawa, rawang, paya
• Malayalam: ചതുപ്പു നിലം (catuppu nilaṃ)
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᠮᡝᠯᡝᠨ (simelen)
• Manx: curragh m
• Middle English: merssh
• Norman: mathais m
• Norwegian: mersk m

  Bokmål: myr m or f, kjerr n

  Nynorsk: myr f

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

  Cyrillic: мо̀чвара f

  Roman: mòčvara (sh) f

• Shor: сас (sas)
• Slovak: močiar m
• Southern Kalinga: chakor wi tabwa
• Spanish: ciénaga (es) f, marisma (es) f, pantano (es) m, ciénega f
• Swedish: kärr (sv)
• Tagalog: lati
• Tibetan: འདམ ('dam)
• Tocharian B: kärkkālle
• 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

Anagrams

• Harms, Sharm, harms, mahrs, shram

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Middle English

Noun

marsh

1. Alternative form of merssh