different between oasis vs polder

English

Etymology

From Late Latin Oasis, from Ancient Greek ????? (Óasis), from Demotic w?j, from Egyptian w??t (“oasis, cauldron”),

Compare Sahidic Coptic ????? (ouahe) and Arabic ??????? (w??a).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???e?s?s/, /???e?s?s/
• (US) enPR: ?-?'s?s, ?-?'s?s, IPA^(key): /o??e?s?s/, /o??e?s?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s?s, -e?s?s

Noun

oasis (plural oases or oasises)

1. A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.
2. A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle.

Synonyms

• (quiet place or situation): island, refuge

Usage notes

The plural oasises is rare and sometimes proscribed.

Related terms

• oasal
• oasitic

Translations

Anagrams

• ossia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.a.zis/

Noun

oasis m or f (plural oasis)

1. oasis

Further reading

• “oasis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• osais

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?a.sis/

Noun

oasis m (plural oases)

1. oasis (spring of fresh water in a desert)
2. oasis (quiet, peaceful place)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?o??si?s/

Noun

oasis

1. locative singular of oassi

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin Oasis (“name of various oases”), from Ancient Greek ????? (Óasis), from Demotic w?j, from Egyptian w??t (“oasis, cauldron”),

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?asis/, [o?a.sis]

Noun

oasis m (plural oasis)

1. oasis

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish oasis.

Noun

oasis

1. oasis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch polder, from Middle Dutch polre, from Old Dutch polra, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??ld?/, /?p?ld?/
• Hyphenation: pol?der
• Rhymes: -??ld?(r)

Noun

polder (plural polders)

1. (geography) An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes. [from 17th c.]
   • 1999, Philipp Blom, translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage 2001, p. 43:

     The patron saint of the Oude Kerk, Saint Nicolaas, the ‘water saint’, was also very popular, as he protected the sailors and those living on the polders from the dangers of the sea.

Translations

Verb

polder (third-person singular simple present polders, present participle poldering, simple past and past participle poldered)

1. To reclaim an area of ground from a sea or lake by means of dikes.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch polder, from Middle Dutch polre, from Old Dutch polra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l.d?r/

Noun

polder (plural polders)

1. polder (land reclaimed from a body of water by means of dykes)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch polre, from Old Dutch polra, perhaps from polla (“A low ground elevation”), possibly ultimately from an imitative Germanic base related to Old Norse purla (“to babble”) (modern Swedish pollra (“to purl”), Norwegian puldra (“to gush”) and pulla (“to bubble”)), Old English polr (“marsh”), and modern English purl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l.d?r/
• Hyphenation: pol?der
• Rhymes: -?ld?r

Noun

polder m (plural polders, diminutive poldertje n)

1. (geography) polder (land reclaimed from a body of water by means of dykes)

Derived terms

• inpolderen
• kleipolder
• polderen
• poldergemaal
• poldermodel
• poldermolen
• rietpolder
• veenpolder
• zeepolder

Descendants

• Afrikaans: polder
• ? English: polder

References

Further reading

• polder on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

French

Etymology

From Dutch polder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?l.d??/

Noun

polder m (plural polders)

1. (geography) polder

Further reading

• “polder” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch polder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?l.d?r]
• Hyphenation: pol?dêr

Noun

poldêr (first-person possessive polderku, second-person possessive poldermu, third-person possessive poldernya)

1. polder.

Further reading

• “polder” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Polish

Etymology

From Dutch polder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l.d?r/

Noun

polder m inan

1. (geography) polder

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) polderowy

Further reading

• polder in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From German Polder

Noun

polder n (plural poldere)

1. polder

Declension