marjal

From Catalan marjal or Spanish marjal.

marjal (plural marjals)

1. A seaside marsh, used for agriculture
   • 1968, Technology and Culture:

     He spent two days in May, 1392, surveying the canal of the well of En Aparici in the marjals of Valencia.

   • 2014, Thomas F. Glick, Steven Livesey, Faith Wallis, Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Trenches were dug into the marshlands (marjals) east of the city to drain them. Then irrigation canals were extended from the already irrigated areas close to the city.

From Arabic مَرْج (marj, “meadow”).

marjal m (plural marjals)

1. seaside marsh, used for agriculture

• maresme (Maresme), maresma
• mareny

“marjal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

marjal

1. adessive singular of mari

• IPA^(key): /maɾˈxal/ [maɾˈxal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mar‧jal

From Arabic مَرْجِع (marjiʕ).

marjal m (plural marjales)

1. a unit of area in various parts of Spain, equivalent to 528.42 m²

• estadal

Two sources are presented:

• From Vulgar Latin marecadicus. Related to French marécage.^[1]
• From Arabic مرج (marj, “meadow”).^[2]

Probably both through Catalan marjal.

marjal m (plural marjales)

1. seaside marsh, used for agriculture

   Synonym: marisma

• “marjal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024