marsh

See also: Marsh

English

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.

marsh (plural marshes)

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 (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)
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)
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 m, ulló m, marnel m, bufedal m, lenteiro m, trolla f, lagumeiro 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)

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

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