wetland

English

Etymology

wet +‎ land

Noun

wetland (plural wetlands)

1. (usually in the plural) Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
   • 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist^[1], volume 101, number 1, page 59:

     European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

Translations

land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas

• Ainu: ピポㇰ (pipok)
• Bashkir: һаҙ (hað), һаҙлыҡ (haðlïq)
• Basque: hezegune
• Catalan: marjal f, aiguamoll m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濕地 (zh), 湿地 (zh) (shīdì)

• Czech: mokřad m
• Danish: vådområde (da)
• Dutch: drasland (nl) n, moer (nl) m, vochtgebied n
• Finnish: kosteikko (fi)
• French: zone humide (fr) f
• German: Feuchtgebiet (de) n
• Greek: υγρότοπος (el) m (ygrótopos)
• Japanese: 湿地 (ja) (しっち, shicchi)

• Manchu: ᠨᡳᠶᠠᡵᡳ (niyari)
• Maori: kūkūwai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: våtmark m, f

  Nynorsk: våtmark f

• Persian: تالاب‏‎ (fa) (tâlâb), کولاب‏‎ (fa) (kulâb)
• Polish: mokradło (pl) n
• Portuguese: brejo (pt) m, paul (pt) m
• Russian: во́дно-боло́тные уго́дья n pl (vódno-bolótnyje ugódʹja), заболо́ченная террито́рия f (zabolóčennaja territórija)
• Sindhi: آبگاهه‏‎ (sd)
• Spanish: humedal
• Swedish: våtmark (sv) c
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Hyponyms

• bog
• fen
• marsh
• mire
• swamp