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Etymology
The origin remains. Has been compared to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) standing water, pond, marsh, swamp
 * 2)  lowlands subject to inundation, water meadows
 * 3) mud used as a mortar
 * 4) space pointed with mortar, between the courses of masonry

Noun

 * 1) swamp, quagmire, bog
 * 2)  impasse, predicament