"bayou" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbaɪ.(j)uː/, /ˈbaɪ.oʊ/ Forms: bayous [plural]
Etymology: From Cajun French bayou, from Choctaw bayuk (“creek”). Doublet of bogue. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frc|bayou}} Cajun French bayou, {{der|en|cho|bayuk||creek}} Choctaw bayuk (“creek”), {{doublet|en|bogue}} Doublet of bogue Head templates: {{en-noun}} bayou (plural bayous)
  1. A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river. Categories (topical): Wetlands Categories (place): Louisiana, USA Translations (slow-moving creek or swamp): mrtvé rameno (Czech), močálovité rameno (Czech), lutakko (Finnish), bayou [masculine] (French), marécages [masculine, plural] (French), acquitrino [masculine] (Italian), ramo paludoso [masculine] (Italian), brejo [masculine] (Portuguese), pantano [masculine] (Spanish), pantanos [masculine, plural] (Spanish), bayou [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-bayou-en-noun-SxefM9OH Disambiguation of Wetlands: 51 49 Disambiguation of Louisiana, USA: 86 14 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of 'slow-moving creek or swamp': 75 25
  2. A swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water. Categories (topical): Wetlands
    Sense id: en-bayou-en-noun-MMiqTxul Disambiguation of Wetlands: 51 49
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: buyou [dated], byo [obsolete] Derived forms: Bayou of Pigs, bayou physa

Noun [French]

IPA: /ba.ju/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-bayou.wav Forms: bayous [plural]
Rhymes: -ju Etymology: Borrowed from Choctaw bayuk (“creek”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|fr|cho|bayuk||creek}} Borrowed from Choctaw bayuk (“creek”) Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} bayou m (plural bayous)
  1. a stagnant body of water left behind by the meandering of the Mississippi River in Louisiana or elsewhere; a bayou Tags: masculine Categories (place): Landforms
    Sense id: en-bayou-fr-noun-Rdrpvf31 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.