Swale

"Swale" in German

Aue

(low tract of moist or marshy land)

Bodensenke

(low tract of moist or marshy land)

Bruch

(low tract of moist or marshy land)

Drängraben

(shallow troughlike depression created to carry water)

Flussniederung

(low tract of moist or marshy land)

Flutgraben

(shallow troughlike depression created to carry water)

Niederung

(low tract of moist or marshy land)

Rigole

(shallow troughlike depression created to carry water)

Senke

(low tract of moist or marshy land)

Senke

(shallow depression sloping downward from a plains upland or level ridgetop)

Sickergraben

(shallow (man-made) trough to allow water to infiltrate the soil)

Versickerungsgraben

(shallow (man-made) trough to allow water to infiltrate the soil)

Versickerungsmulde

(shallow (man-made) trough to allow water to infiltrate the soil)

Versickerungsmulde

(shallow (man-made) trough to allow water to infiltrate the soil)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.