See morass in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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],
"word": "тряси́на"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "paṅka",
"sense": "tract of soft, wet ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "पङ्क"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "tract of soft, wet ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boglach"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "tract of soft, wet ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "blato"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "tract of soft, wet ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pantano"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "tract of soft, wet ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "marisma"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "tract of soft, wet ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "almarjal"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "tract of soft, wet ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "armajal"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "tract of soft, wet ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "marjal"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "tract of soft, wet ground",
"word": "moras"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "balóta",
"sense": "anything that entraps or makes progress difficult",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "бало́та"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "anything that entraps or makes progress difficult",
"word": "suo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "anything that entraps or makes progress difficult",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bourbier"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "anything that entraps or makes progress difficult",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pantano"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "trjasína",
"sense": "anything that entraps or makes progress difficult",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "тряси́на"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "anything that entraps or makes progress difficult",
"word": "moras"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "anything that entraps or makes progress difficult",
"word": "moras"
}
],
"word": "morass"
}
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