Meaning of purvājs | Babel Free

Definitions

1. swamp, swampy place or territory, marshland
   declension-1, masculine
2. swamp (hard, difficult circumstances)
   declension-1, figuratively, masculine
3. a type of pine forest that grows on wet peat soil
   declension-1, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“ciņains purvājs”

moundy marshland

“purvājā aug dzērvenes”

cranberries grow in the marshland

“rakt ģrāvi purvājā”

to dig a ditch in the swamp land

“plašais līdzenums vēl aizpērn bija ar sīkiem krūmiem apaudzis, necaurbrienams purvājs”

the year before last, the wide plain was still covered with small bushes, (now this) unsurmountable marshland

“dzīves purvājs”

a life swamp (= difficult circumstances)

“purvājā pameža nav”

there is no undergrowth in peat pine forests

CEFR level