Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: dood
- Amharic: backwater
- Arabic: المعزل
- Azerbaijani: qabarma edir
- Bashkir: лунная заводь
- Belarusian: затока
- Bulgarian: блато
- Bengali: অচলতা
- Bosnian: zabiti.
- Catalan: recés
- Cebuano: backwater
- Czech: stojaté vody
- Welsh: merddwr
- Danish: backwater
- German: Rückstau
- Greek: τέλμα
- Esperanto: izolejo
- Spanish: remanso
- Estonian: suvanto
- Basque: backwater
- Persian: مرداب
- Finnish: suvanto
- French: backwater
- Irish: backwater
- Scottish Gaelic: bòrd
- Galician: remanso
- Gujarati: બેકવોટર
- Hebrew: נידח
- Hindi: backwater
- Croatian: rukavce
- Haitian: rmou
- Hungarian: holtág
- Armenian: заводь
- Indonesian: terpencil
- Icelandic: útkjálka
- Italian: ristagno
- Japanese: 僻
- Javanese: backwater
- Georgian: backwater
- Kazakh: мүйіс
- Khmer: ត្រ
- Kannada: ಹಿನ್ನೀರು
- Korean: 산간
- Kyrgyz: заводь
- Latin: backwater
- Luxembourgish: Rückstau
- Lao: ນັ
- Lithuanian: pelkė
- Latvian: sastingums
- Malagasy: backwater
- Mari: икса
- Maori: backwater
- Macedonian: backwater
- Malayalam: backwater
- Mongolian: backwater
- Marathi: बॅकवॉटर
- Hill Mari: иксӓ
- Malay: mundur
- Maltese: backwater
- Burmese: ဓား
- Nepali: backwater
- Dutch: opstuwing
- Norwegian: bakevje
- Punjabi: backwater
- Papiamento: ruman
- Polish: zaścianek
- Portuguese: remanso
- Romanian: gârlă
- Russian: заводь
- Sinhalese: backwater
- Slovak: stojaté
- Slovenian: bogu za hrbtom
- Albanian: moçalore
- Serbian: заостао
- Sundanese: backwater
- Swedish: backwater
- Swahili: backwater
- Tamil: உப்பங்கழி
- Telugu: కయ్యి
- Tajik: заводь
- Thai: backwater
- Tagalog: sapa
- Turkish: durgun
- Tatar: заводь
- Udmurt: кожильысь
- Ukrainian: заводь
- Urdu: backwater
- Uzbek: backwater
- Vietnamese: tù túng
- Xhosa: backwater
- Yiddish: באַקוואָטער
- Chinese: 回水
Synonyms, close and similar words for backwater
- creek
- oxbows
- backwoods
- podunk
- hinterland
- wilderness
- wetland
- bog
- swamp
- marsh
- mire
- afflux