morass

Signification (Anglais)

1. A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
2. (figuratively) Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.

Concepts

marais

marécage

bourbier

bourbe

fagne

fondrière

terrain marécageux

Synonymes

marsh

quagmire

swamp

bog

mire

fen

quag

marshland

slough

slack

wetland

moor

Moor

heath

swale

swampland

scraw bog

glade

sludge

mudhole

bogland

swampy ground

bayou

wetlands

muddy place

pool

pond

mud

Traductions

pantano

pantano

Sumpf

moeras

palude

pântano

aiguamoll

Morast

pantà

lodaçal

palus

brejo

βάλτος

drasland

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/məˈɹæs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Dutch moeras (“marsh, swamp”), an alteration (with influence from Dutch moer (“moor”)) of a direct descendant of Middle Dutch marasch (“marsh”). The Middle Dutch word is a borrowing from Old French mareis, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk. Doublet of marish and marsh, and linked in part to moor. Compare quagmire.