lagoon

English

Borrowed from French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacuna. Related to Old English lagu via Proto-Indo-European.

lagoon (plural lagoons)

shallow body of water

Afrikaans: strandmeer
Asturian: llaguna f
Aymara: isk'aqota
Catalan: llacuna
Chinese:
Mandarin: 潟湖 (zh) (xìhú), (considered non-standard or misspelling) 瀉湖 (zh), 泻湖 (zh) (xièhú), 環礁湖, 环礁湖 (huánjiāohú)
Classical Nahuatl: ilhuicaāmāitl
Czech: laguna (cs) f
Danish: lagune (da) c, strandsø (da) c
Dutch: lagune (nl) f
Esperanto: laguno
Estonian: laguun (et)
Finnish: laguuni (fi)
French: lagon (fr) m, lagune (fr) f
Galician: lagoa f
German: Lagune (de) f
Greek: λιμνοθάλασσα (el) f (limnothálassa)
Hindi: झील (hi) (jhīl)
Hungarian: lagúna (hu)
Ido: laguno (io)

Italian: laguna (it) f
Japanese: ラグーン (ragūn), 潟 (ja) (かた, kata), 潟湖 (せきこ, sekiko)
Korean: 석호 (ko) (seokho) (潟湖 (ko)), 라군 (ragun)
Malay: lagun
Manx: mooirlagh
Maori: muriwai
Northern Sotho: letshanatswai
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lagune m, strandsjø m

Nynorsk: lagune m or f, strandsjø m
Persian: مرداب‎ (fa) (mordâb), تالاب‎ (fa) (tâlâb), لگون‎ (lagun), خفتاب‎ (xaftâb), کولاب‎ (fa) (kulâb), ایستاب‎ (fa) (istâb)
Polish: laguna (pl) f
Portuguese: laguna f, albufeira f
Russian: лагу́на (ru) f (lagúna)
Spanish: laguna (es) f, estero (es), albufera f
Swedish: lagun (sv) c, strandsjö c
Tagalog: bai (tl), lanaw
Venetian: łaguna f
Vietnamese: phá (vi)
Zazaki: gampêl

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