marsh

See also: Marsh

English

Etymology

From Middle English merssh, from Old English mersċ, merisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk, derived from *mari, equivalent to mere (“sea, body of water”) +‎ -ish. Doublet of marish, morass, and merse. Cognate with West Frisian mersk, Dutch meers (“grassland, meadow”) and Dutch moeras, German Marsch. More at mere.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /mɑɹʃ/
(UK) IPA^(key): /mɑː(ɹ)ʃ/
(obsolete) IPA^(key): /mæʃ/^[1]
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃ

Noun

marsh (plural marshes)

An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants. (Compare swamp, bog, fen.)
Many animals live in the marsh.

Čepkeliai Marsh consists mainly of bog.

Coordinate terms: bog, fen, moor, swamp

Derived terms

Translations

area of low, wet land

Afrikaans: moeras
Albanian: kënetë (sq)
Arabic: نَعْصَة (naʕṣa), مُسْتَنْقَع (mustanqaʕ)
Armenian: ճահիճ (hy) (čahič), ճահճուտ (hy) (čahčut)
Old Armenian: ճահիճ (čahič), եղտիւր (ełtiwr)
Assamese: জলাহ (zolah), পিটনি (pitoni)
Bashkir: һаҙ (haź)
Basque: zingira f
Bulgarian: блато (bg) n (blato), мочурище (bg) n (močurište), тресавище (bg) n (tresavište)
Catalan: aiguamoll (ca) m
Chamicuro: pnajmule
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沼澤 / 沼泽 (zh) (zhǎozé)
Coptic: ϩⲉⲗⲟⲥ m (helos)
Czech: bažina (cs) f, močál (cs) m, mokřad (cs) m
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), suo (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 (gl) m, ulló m, marnel m, bufedal m, lenteiro m, trolla f, lagumeiro m, lagorza f
Georgian: ჭაობი (č̣aobi), ჭანჭრობი (č̣anč̣robi)
German: Marsch (de) f, Moor (de) n, Sumpf (de) m, Sumpfgebiet (de) n, Sumpfland (de) n, Bruch (de) m or n
Greek: έλος (el) n (élos), βάλτος (el) m (váltos)
Ancient: ἕλος n (hélos), τέλμα n (télma)
Hebrew: ביצה (he) f (bitza)
Hungarian: mocsár (hu), láp (hu)
Icelandic: mýri (is)
Ido: marsho (io)
Ilocano: tanggal, alog
Indonesian: paya (id), rawa (id), rawa-rawa (id)
Irish: corcach f, corrach m, eanach m, riasc m, seascann m
Italian: palude (it) f
Japanese: 湿地 (ja) (しっち, shitchi), 湿原 (ja) (しつげん, shitsugen)
Korean: 습지 (ko) (seupji), 늪지 (neupji), 소택 (ko) (sotaek)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: زەلکاو (zelkaw)
Latin: palūs f, lāma f
Latvian: purvs m, purvājs m, muklājs (lv) m, staignums m
Lithuanian: pelkė (lt)
Lubuagan Kalinga: byangbyang
Luxembourgish: Mouer (lb) m or n
Malay: rawa (ms), rawang (ms), paya (ms)
Malayalam: ചതുപ്പ് (ml) (catuppŭ)
Manchu: ᠰᡳᠮᡝᠯᡝᠨ (simelen)
Manx: curragh m
Middle English: merssh
Nahuatl: achahuitl
Norman: mathais m
Norwegian: mersk m
Bokmål: myr m or f, kjerr n

Nynorsk: myr f
Old English: mersc, merisc
Ottoman Turkish: باتاق (batak), خلاش (hılaş)
Persian: مانداب (fa) (mândâb), مرداب (fa) (mordâb), هور (fa) (howr)
Plautdietsch: Somp m
Polish: bagno (pl) n, moczar (pl) m, mokradło (pl) n, błoto (pl) n
Portuguese: marisma, pântano (pt)
Russian: боло́то (ru) n (bolóto)
Scottish Gaelic: lèana m, boglach f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мо̀чвара f

Roman: mòčvara (sh) f
Shor: сас (sas)
Slovak: močiar m
Southern Kalinga: chakor wi tabwa
Spanish: ciénaga (es) f, marisma (es) f, pantano (es) m, ciénega f, marjal m, almarjal (es) m, armajal m
Swedish: kärr (sv)
Tagalog: lati
Tibetan: འདམ ('dam)
Tocharian B: kärkkālle
Turkish: bataklık (tr)
Uyghur: سازلىق (sazliq)
Vietnamese: đồng lầy, cánh đồng lầy, vùng đồng lầy
Welsh: cors (cy) f
Woiwurrung: tool
Yucatec Maya: luuk ha', ch'uul ha'

References

^ Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎^[1], volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, page 222.

Anagrams

Harms, Sharm, harms, mahrs, shram

Middle English

Noun

marsh

alternative form of merssh

[1] Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎^[1], volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, page 222.

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