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):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃ

Noun

marsh (plural marshes)

1. 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

• Bacchus Marsh
• Berkley Marsh
• black marsh turtle
• blue marsh hawk
• Burgh le Marsh
• Canon's Marsh
• Dilton Marsh
• green marsh hawk
• Hardington Marsh
• Marsh Barton
• Marsh Benham
• marsh buck
• marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)
• marsh elder (Iva spp.)
• marsh fever
• marsh fritillary
• marsh gas
• marsh gentian
• Marsh Gibbon
• marsh grass
• marsh harrier
• marsh hawk
• marsh hawksbeard
• marsh hen
• marsh horsetail
• marshland
• marsh light
• marsh lynx
• marsh mallow
• marsh-mallow
• marsh marigold
• Marsh Mills
• marsh pink
• marsh rabbit
• marsh rice rat
• marsh rosemary
• marsh sandpiper
• marsh snake
• marsh thistle
• marsh tit
• marsh treader
• marsh violet
• marsh warbler
• marsh willowherb
• marsh wren
• Moreton-in-Marsh
• Netley Marsh
• rosy marsh moth
• salt marsh
• salt-marsh caterpillar
• salt marsh hay
• salt-marsh terrapin
• St Mary in the Marsh
• St Philip's Marsh
• Thorpe Marsh
• western marsh harrier

 

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 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, shicchi), 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, 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 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, page 222.

Anagrams

• Harms, Sharm, harms, mahrs, shram

Middle English

Noun

marsh

1. Alternative form of merssh