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From wet + land . Cognate with West Frisian wetlân .
wetland (plural wetlands )
( usually in the plural ) Land that is covered mostly with water , with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist [1] , volume 101 , number 1, archived from the original on 22 January 2013 , page 59 :European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands , lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas
Afrikaans: vleiland (af) n
Ainu: ピポㇰ ( pipok )
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bashkir: һаҙ ( haź ) , һаҙлыҡ ( haźlıq )
Basque: hezegune
Bulgarian: мочур (bg) m ( močur )
Catalan: marjal f , aiguamoll (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 濕地 / 湿地 (zh) ( shīdì )
Czech: mokřad (cs) m
Danish: vådområde (da)
Dutch: drasland (nl) n , moer (nl) m , vochtgebied n
Finnish: kosteikko (fi)
French: zone humide (fr) f
Galician: gándara (gl) f
German: Feuchtgebiet (de) n
Greek: υγρότοπος (el) m ( ygrótopos )
Hindi: तालाब (hi) m ( tālāb )
Hungarian: vizes terület /élőhely , mocsaras terület
Indonesian: lahan basah (id) , tanah basah (id)
Italian: palude (it) f , area paludosa f , area acquitrinosa f
Japanese: 湿地 (ja) ( しっち, shicchi )
Khmer: តំបន់ដីសើម (km) ( tâmbândeisaeum )
Macedonian: мо́клиште n ( móklište ) , мо́чарка f ( móčarka ) , мо́чур m ( móčur )
Malay: tanah basah
Manchu: ᠨᡳᠶᠠᡵᡳ ( niyari )
Maori: kūkūwai
Norwegian:
Bokmål: våtmark m or f
Nynorsk: våtmark f
Persian: تالاب (fa) ( tâlâb ) , کولاب (fa) ( kulâb )
Polish: mokradło (pl) n
Portuguese: brejo (pt) m , paul (pt) m
Russian: во́дно-боло́тные уго́дья n pl ( vódno-bolótnyje ugódʹja ) , заболо́ченная террито́рия f ( zabolóčennaja territórija )
Sindhi: آبگاهه (sd)
Spanish: humedal (es) m
Swedish: våtmark (sv) c
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can