Tarn

//tɑːn//

Synonyms for "tarn" (16 found)

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Related words (8)

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Translations

44 translations across 31 languages.

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Arabic

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  • بحيرة جبلية noun (small mountain lake)

Bulgarian

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  • планинско езеро noun (small mountain lake)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 山间的湖 noun (small mountain lake)

Czech

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  • (horské) jezírko noun (small mountain lake)
  • horské oko noun (small mountain lake)
  • karové jezero noun (small mountain lake)
  • pleso noun (small mountain lake)

Danish

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  • tjern noun (small mountain lake)

Dutch

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  • bergmeertje noun (small mountain lake)

Finnish

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  • lampi noun (small mountain lake)
  • vuoristolampi noun (small mountain lake)

French

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  • Tarn name (department)
  • lac (de montagne) noun (small mountain lake)

Galician

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  • lago de montaña noun (small mountain lake)

German

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  • Karsee noun (small mountain lake)

Greek

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  • αλπική λίμνη noun (small mountain lake)

Hindi

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  • टार्न noun (small mountain lake)

Hungarian

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  • kártó noun (small mountain lake)
  • tengerszem noun (small mountain lake)

Icelandic

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  • tjörn noun (small mountain lake)

Italian

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  • laghetto noun (small mountain lake)
  • laghetto montano noun (small mountain lake)
  • tarn noun (small mountain lake)

Japanese

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  • 凹溜まり noun (small mountain lake)

Korean

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  • 작은 호수 noun (small mountain lake)

Middle English

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  • tarne noun (small mountain lake)
  • terne noun (small mountain lake)

Māori

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  • pūroto noun (small mountain lake)

Norwegian Bokmål

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  • tjern noun (small mountain lake)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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  • tjern noun (small mountain lake)

Old Norse

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  • tjarn noun (small mountain lake)
  • tjǫrn noun (small mountain lake)

Polish

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  • jezioro cyrkowe noun (small mountain lake)
  • jezioro karowe noun (small mountain lake)

Romanian

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  • iezer noun (small mountain lake)

Russian

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  • ка́ровое о́зеро noun (small mountain lake)

Slovak

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  • pleso noun (small mountain lake)

Spanish

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  • ibón noun (small mountain lake)
  • laguna (de montaña) noun (small mountain lake)

Swedish

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  • fjällsjö noun (small mountain lake)
  • tjärn noun (small mountain lake)

Turkish

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  • dağ gölü noun (small mountain lake)

Ukrainian

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  • карове озеро noun (small mountain lake)

Zazaki

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  • dola kohi noun (small mountain lake)

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

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There's a small mountain tarn, surrounded by alpine meadows.

Source: tatoeba (11639702)

Thou Wind, that ravest without, / Bare craig, or mountain-tairn, or blasted tree, / Or pine-grove whither woodman never clomb, / Or lonely house, long held the witches' home, / Methinks were fitter instruments for thee, / Mad Lutanist! [footnote: Tairn is a small lake, generally if not always applied to the lakes up in the mountains, and which are the feeders of those in the valleys.[…]]

Source: wiktionary

It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene [of the House of Usher], of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.

Source: wiktionary

Tarns are found in some of the vales, and are numerous upon the mountains. A Tarn, in a Vale, implies, for the most part, that the bed of the vale is not happily formed; that the water of the brooks can neither wholly escape, nor diffuse itself over a large area. Accordingly, in such situtions, Tarns are often surrounded by an unsightly tract of boggy ground; but this is not always the case, […]

Source: wiktionary

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