marshland

English

Etymology

From marsh +‎ land.

Noun

marshland (countable and uncountable, plural marshlands)

1. Marshy land; bog or fen.
   • 1946 May and June, J. G. Holmes, “The North Woolwich Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 173:

     East of Bow Creek, the line ran to North Woolwich along the bank of the Thames, then entirely uninhabited marshland, without roads.

Translations

marshy land, bog, fen

• Arabic: أهوار (ahwār)
• Finnish: suo (fi)
• Galician: braña (gl) f
• German: Sumpfland (de) n, sumpfiges Gelände n
• Malayalam: ചതുപ്പുനിലം (ml) (catuppunilaṁ)
• Maori: kūkūwai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: myrland n, myrlandskap n, myrlende n, myrmark m or f

• Old English: strod n
• Old Norse: mǿrr
• Polish: moczar (pl) m
• Swedish: myrmark (sv) c, sumpmark (sv) c, sankmark (sv) c