marl

Etymology 1
From, from , from , diminutive of. .

Noun

 * 1) A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Aragonese: salagón
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: mergel
 * Basque: marga,, tuparri
 * Belarusian: мергель
 * Bulgarian: мергел
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: marno
 * Estonian: mergel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Gaulish: marga, acaunomarga
 * Georgian: მერგელი
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: marla, móta liath
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 泥灰土
 * Kazakh: мергель
 * Korean: 이회암
 * Kyrgyz: мергель
 * Latin: marga
 * Limburgish: mergel
 * Lithuanian: purmuo, mergelis
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Middle English: marle
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: mergel
 * Nynorsk: mergel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ла̏пор, ла̏порац
 * Roman: lȁpor, lȁporac
 * Slovak: slieň, slieňovec
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: мергел
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ме́ргель
 * Uzbek:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Vietnamese: macnơ
 * Walloon:

Verb

 * 1)  To cover with the earthy substance called marl.

Verb

 * 1)  To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.

Translations

 * French:
 * Italian: marnare

Etymology 3
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  A species of bandicoot,, of southern Western Australia.