marsh

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 and morass. Cognate with West Frisian mersk, Dutch meers (“grassland, meadow”), German Marsch. More at mere.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑɹʃ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɑː(ɹ)ʃ/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /mæʃ/[1]

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃ

Noun

marsh (plural marshes)

1. An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.

   Coordinate terms: bog, moor, swamp

Derived terms

• Berkley Marsh
• Burgh le Marsh
• Dilton Marsh
• Hardington Marsh
• Marsh Barton
• Marsh Benham
• marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)
• marsh elder (Iva spp.}
• Marsh Gibbon
• marshland
• Marsh Mills
• Moreton-in-Marsh
• St Philip's Marsh
• Thorpe Marsh

 

Translations

area of low, wet land

Afrikaans: moeras Albanian: kënetë (sq) Arabic: نَعْصَة‎ (naʿṣa), مُسْتَنْقَع‎ (mustanqaʿ) 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／沼泽 (zh) (zhǎozé) Coptic: ϩⲉⲗⲟⲥ m (helos) Czech: bažina (cs) f, močál 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 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) 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 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 (ja) (しつげん, shitsugen) Korean: 습지 (ko) (seupji), 늪지 (neupji), 소택 (ko) (sotaek) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: زەلکاو‎ (ku) (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, rawang, paya Malayalam: ചതുപ്പു നിലം (catuppu nilaṃ) Manchu: ᠰᡳᠮᡝᠯᡝᠨ (simelen) Manx: curragh m Middle English: merssh Norman: mathais m Norwegian: mersk m Bokmål: myr m or f, kjerr n Nynorsk: myr f Old English: mersc, merisc 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 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 Westrobothnian: flyj n Yucatec Maya: luuk ha', ch'uul ha'

See also

• marshmallow
• slack

References

1. Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎, volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, OCLC 2223337, page 222.

Anagrams

• Harms, Sharm, harms, mahrs, shram

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Middle English

Noun

marsh

1. Alternative form of merssh