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.

Synonyms

• waterland

Hyponyms

• bog
• fen
• marsh
• mire
• swamp
• See also Thesaurus:wetland

Translations

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

• Afrikaans: vleiland (af) n
• Ainu: ピポㇰ (pipok)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: һаҙ (hað), һаҙлыҡ (haðlïq)
• Basque: hezegune
• Catalan: marjal f, aiguamoll (ca) 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
• Galician: gándara (gl) f
• German: Feuchtgebiet (de) n
• Greek: υγρότοπος (el) m (ygrótopos)
• Hindi: तालाब (hi) m (tālāb)

• Hungarian: vizes terület/élőhely, mocsaras terület
• Japanese: 湿地 (ja) (しっち, shicchi)
• Khmer: តំបន់ដីសើម (km) (tâmbândeisaeum)
• Manchu: ᠨᡳᠶᠠᡵᡳ (niyari)
• Maori: kūkūwai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: våtmark m or 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 m
• Swedish: våtmark (sv) c
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can