1.
muddy ground; mire; quagmire
Soft, waterlogged ground that is difficult to walk through. The ground has been saturated with water and turned into thick, sticky mud.
泥濘に足を取られた。
My feet got stuck in the mud.
大雨の後、道は泥濘と化した。
After the heavy rain, the road turned into a quagmire.
兵士たちは泥濘の中を進み続けなければならなかった。
The soldiers had to keep advancing through the mire.
A literary or formal term for muddy, waterlogged ground. The kanji 泥 means mud and 濘 means muddy or miry. In everyday speech, ぬかるみ is far more common for the same meaning.
This word is most often encountered in written Japanese — novels, essays, historical accounts, and news reports about natural disasters. It carries a heavier, more vivid tone than the colloquial ぬかるみ.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 泥濘の道: muddy road
- 泥濘に足を取られる: to get one's feet stuck in mud
- 泥濘と化す: to turn into a quagmire
- 泥濘の中を歩く: to walk through mud
SIMILAR WORDS:
- ぬかるみ: mud, muddy place — the everyday word for the same concept
- 泥: mud — the basic, general word
- ぬかるむ: to become muddy — the verb form