morass

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• General-American: /məˈɹæs/
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• General-American: /moˈɹæs/
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• CMU ARPABET: M ER0 AE1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: M AO1 R AE0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: блато (blato) — tract of soft, wet ground
• Bulgarian: мочур (močur) — tract of soft, wet ground
• Czech: močál — tract of soft, wet ground
• Czech: bažina — tract of soft, wet ground
• Czech: bahno — tract of soft, wet ground
• Dutch: moeras — tract of soft, wet ground
• Finnish: suo — tract of soft, wet ground
• Finnish: hetteikkö — tract of soft, wet ground
• French: marais — tract of soft, wet ground
• French: marécage — tract of soft, wet ground
• Irish: bar — tract of soft, wet ground
• Irish: seascann — tract of soft, wet ground
• Italian: pantano — tract of soft, wet ground
• Latin: palūs — tract of soft, wet ground
• Plautdietsch: Moarauss — tract of soft, wet ground
• Polish: bagno — tract of soft, wet ground
• Polish: trzęsawisko — tract of soft, wet ground
• Polish: mokradło — tract of soft, wet ground
• Polish: grzęzawisko — tract of soft, wet ground
• Polish: moczar — tract of soft, wet ground
• Polish: błoto — tract of soft, wet ground
• Portuguese: pântano — tract of soft, wet ground
• Portuguese: banhado — tract of soft, wet ground
• Romanian: mlaștină — tract of soft, wet ground
• Russian: боло́то (bolóto) — tract of soft, wet ground
• Russian: тряси́на (trjasína) — tract of soft, wet ground
• Sanskrit: पङ्क (paṅka) — tract of soft, wet ground
• Scottish Gaelic: boglach — tract of soft, wet ground
• Serbo-Croatian: blato — tract of soft, wet ground
• Spanish: pantano — tract of soft, wet ground
• Spanish: marisma — tract of soft, wet ground
• Spanish: almarjal — tract of soft, wet ground
• Spanish: armajal — tract of soft, wet ground
• Spanish: marjal — tract of soft, wet ground
• Swedish: moras — tract of soft, wet ground
• Turkish: bataklık — tract of soft, wet ground
• Ottoman Turkish: باتاق (batak) — tract of soft, wet ground
• Ottoman Turkish: خلاش (hılaş) — tract of soft, wet ground
• Belarusian: бало́та (balóta) — anything that entraps or makes progress difficult
• Czech: marast — anything that entraps or makes progress difficult
• Finnish: suo — anything that entraps or makes progress difficult
• French: bourbier — anything that entraps or makes progress difficult
• Hungarian: hínár — anything that entraps or makes progress difficult
• Italian: pantano — anything that entraps or makes progress difficult
• Polish: bagno — anything that entraps or makes progress difficult
• Polish: błoto — anything that entraps or makes progress difficult
• Polish: gąszcz — anything that entraps or makes progress difficult
• Russian: тряси́на (trjasína) — anything that entraps or makes progress difficult
• Swedish: moras — anything that entraps or makes progress difficult