embankment

English

Etymology

embank +‎ -ment

Noun

embankment (plural embankments)

a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road

Derived terms

Victoria Embankment

Translations

artificial mound of earth and stone

Albanian: argjinaturë (sq)
Bulgarian: дига (bg) f (diga), насип (bg) m (nasip)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 堤岸 (zh) (dī'àn)
Czech: násep m
Dutch: waterkering (nl) f
Esperanto: digo
Estonian: vall
Finnish: valli (fi)
French: chaussée (fr) f, talus (fr) m
German: Böschung (de) f, Bahndamm (de) m, Dammschüttung f, Eindeichung f
Italian: argine (it) m

Japanese: 堤防 (ja) (ていぼう,teibō), 盛土 (ja) (もりど, morido)
Manx: cleih m
Maori: oneone, maioro (for fortification), parepare
Polish: wał przeciwpowodziowy
Portuguese: dique (pt) m
Russian: на́бережная (ru) (náberežnaja), на́сыпь (ru) f (násypʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: zagat (sh) m
Swedish: fördämning
Tagalog: pimpin
Venetian: terajo m, àrzare m, àrxen m, àrđen m
Welsh: clawdd (cy) m
Westrobothnian: damm n

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