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
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