marsh

See also: Marsh

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mer-?

Proto-Indo-European *móri

Proto-Germanic *mari

Proto-West Germanic *mari

Proto-Indo-European *-iskos

Proto-Germanic *-iskaz

Proto-West Germanic *-isk

Proto-West Germanic *marisk

Old English mersċ

Middle English mersch

English marsh

From Middle English mersch, 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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɑːʃ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑɹʃ/

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• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /mɐːʃ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /maɾʃ/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /mæʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃ

Noun

marsh (plural marshes)

2. An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants.

   Synonyms: marshland, (UK dialect) mere

   Many animals live in the marsh.

   Čepkeliai Marsh consists mainly of bog.

   Coordinate terms: bog, fen, swamp, slough, moor, everglade, meadow (lowland sense)

Derived terms

• Bacchus Marsh
• Barmby on the Marsh
• Berkley Marsh
• black marsh turtle
• blue marsh hawk
• Burgh le Marsh
• Canon's Marsh
• Dilton Marsh
• green marsh hawk
• Hardington Marsh
• Ljubljana Marsh
• Macquarie Marshes
• Malltraeth Marsh
• Marsh Baldon
• Marsh Barton
• marsh beetle
• Marsh Benham
• marshberry
• marshbird
• marsh buck
• marsh crab
• marsh crake
• 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
• marsh Labrador tea
• marshland
• marshless
• marsh light
• marshlike
• marsh lynx
• marsh-mallow
• marsh mallow
• marshman
• marsh marigold
• Marsh Mills
• marsh phlox
• marsh pink
• marsh rabbit
• marsh rice rat
• marsh rosemary
• marsh sandpiper
• marshscape
• marsh shrew
• marshside
• marsh snake
• marsh thistle
• marsh tit
• marsh treader
• marsh trefoil
• marsh violet
• marsh warbler
• marsh willowherb
• marshwort
• marsh wren
• marshy
• megamarsh
• Moreton-in-Marsh
• Netley Marsh
• Romney Marsh
• rosy marsh moth
• salt marsh
• salt-marsh caterpillar
• salt marsh hay
• salt-marsh terrapin
• St Mary in the Marsh
• St Philip's Marsh
• Swan Marsh
• Thorpe Marsh
• western marsh harrier

Translations

area of low, wet land

Afrikaans: moeras Akkadian: agammum m 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 (hað) Basque: zingira f Bontoc: Eastern Bontoc: mamakpat ay lota mamapsong Bulgarian: блато (bg) n (blato), мочурище (bg) n (močurište), тресавище (bg) n (tresavište) Catalan: aiguamoll (ca) m, marjal f 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 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 Greek: 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) Kalinga: Lubuagan Kalinga: byangbyang Southern Kalinga: chakor wi tabwa 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) 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: mersch Nahuatl: achahuitl 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), alverca (pt) f Romanian: mlaștină (ro) f Russian: боло́то (ru) n (bolóto) Scottish Gaelic: lèana m, boglach f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мо̀чвара f Latin: mòčvara (sh) f Shor: сас (sas) Slovak: močiar m 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) Ottoman Turkish: باتاق (batak), خلاش (hılaş) Ukrainian: багно́ (uk) n (bahnó), боло́то (uk) n (bolóto) Uyghur: سازلىق (sazliq) Vietnamese: đồng lầy, cánh đồng lầy, vùng đồng lầy Welsh: cors (cy) f Woiwurrung: tool, turkeeth Yucatec Maya: luuk ha', ch'uul ha'

See also

• marshmallow
• slack

Anagrams

• Harms, Sharm, harms, mahrs, shram

Middle English

Noun

marsh

1. alternative form of mersch