badlands

See also: Badlands

English

Etymology

Calque of Canadian French mauvaise terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota mako sica (“land bad”), synchronically equivalent to bad +‎ lands.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbæd.lændz/

Noun

badlands (plural badlands)

(geomorphology) An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.

Synonyms

Translations

arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks

Catalan: badlands f pl
Danish: badland n
Faroese: illlendi n
French: Mauvaises Terres (fr) f pl, badlands (fr) m

Irish: drochthailte f pl
Leonese: páramu
Spanish: tierras baldías f pl
Welsh: garwdiroedd m pl

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