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English The Venetian Lagoon .
Etymology Borrowed from French lagune Italian laguna Latin lacuna Old English lagu Doublet of lacuna lacune
Pronunciation
Noun lagoon (plural lagoons
A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar .
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations shallow body of water
Afrikaans: strandmeer
Albanian: laguna
Arabic: بُحَيْرة شاطِئَة f ( buḥayra(t) šāṭiʔa ) , لَاجُون f ( lājūn )
Armenian: ծովալճակ (hy) ( covalčak )
Asturian: llaguna (ast) f
Aymara: isk'aqota
Bulgarian: лагу́на f ( lagúna )
Catalan: llacuna (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 潟湖 (zh) ( xìhú ) , 瀉湖 / 泻湖 (zh) ( xièhú ) ( dated or non-standard form ) , 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 étang (fr) m
Galician: lagoa (gl) f
Georgian: ლაგუნა ( laguna )
German: Lagune (de) f
Greek: λιμνοθάλασσα (el) f ( limnothálassa )
Ancient: τέναγος n ( ténagos )
Hebrew: לָגוּנָה (he) f ( laguna )
Higaonon: danaw
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 )
Kazakh: лагуна ( laguna )
Korean: 석호(潟湖) (ko) ( seokho ) , 라군 ( ragun )
Latvian: lagūna f
Lithuanian: lagūna f
Macedonian: лагуна f ( laguna )
Malay: lagun
Manx: mooirlagh
Maori: muriwai hāpua
Northern Sotho: letshanatswai
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lagune m strandsjø m
Nynorsk: lagune m or f strandsjø m
Occitan: lòna (oc) f
Persian: مرداب (fa) ( mordâb ) , تالاب (fa) ( tâlâb ) , لگون ( lagun ) , خفتاب ( xaftâb ) , کولاب (fa) ( kulâb ) , ایستاب (fa) ( istâb )
Plautdietsch: Lagoon f
Polish: laguna (pl) f zalew (pl) m
Portuguese: laguna f albufeira f
Romanian: lagună (ro) f
Russian: лагу́на (ru) f ( lagúna )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лагуна f
Roman: laguna f
Slovak: lagúna f
Slovene: laguna (sl) f
Spanish: laguna (es) f ( smaller than a lake, usually fresh water ) , estero (es) , albufera (es) f ( next to the sea ) , albina (es) f ( next to the sea ) , albariza (es) f ( brackish ) , cucha (es) f ( Peru, same as laguna )
Swedish: lagun (sv) c strandsjö c
Tagalog: bai (tl) , lanaw
Thai: ลากูน ( laa-guun )
Turkish: lagün (tr)
Ukrainian: лагу́на (uk) ( lahúna )
Venetan: łaguna f
Vietnamese: phá (vi) (𫮒
Zazaki: gampêl
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