English
Etymology
From aqui- + -fer.
Pronunciation
Noun
aquifer (plural aquifers)
- An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.
The water in the well came from an aquifer.
2023 August 16, Helena Horton, “United Utilities fined £800,000 for taking 22bn litres of water from aquifer”, in The Guardian:An aquifer is rock or sediment that holds groundwater – rain that is held below the surface of the soil and collected in empty spaces underground. Aquifers feed rivers to keep their flows at a healthy level, and are also important sources of water when reservoirs or other sources run low.
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Translations
an underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel
- Arabic: طَبَقَة ٱلْمِيَاهِ ٱلْجَوْفِيَّةِ f (ṭabaqa(t) l-miyāhi l-jawfiyyati)
- Catalan: aqüífer (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 含水層 / 含水层 (zh) (hánshuǐcéng)
- Dutch: aquifer (nl) m
- Finnish: akviferi, pohjavesikerros
- French: aquifère (fr) m
- Galician: acuífero (gl) m
- German: Grundwasserleiter m, Aquifer (de) m
- Greek: υδροφορέας m (ydroforéas), υπόγειος υδροφορέας m (ypógeios ydroforéas)
- Hebrew: אקוויפר m
- Hungarian: víztartó réteg
- Indonesian: akuifer (id)
- Irish: uiscíoch m
- Japanese: 帯水層 (たいすいそう, taisuisō)
- Korean: 대수층(帶水層) (daesucheung)
- Lithuanian: vandeningas sluoksnis
- Maori: mātāwainuku
- Navajo: łeeyiʼdi tóhígíí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: akvifer m, grunnvannsmagasin n
- Polish: warstwa wodonośna f
- Portuguese: aquífero (pt) m
- Russian: водоно́сный горизо́нт (ru) m (vodonósnyj gorizónt), водоно́сный слой m (vodonósnyj sloj), водоно́сный пласт m (vodonósnyj plast), аквифе́р (ru) m (akvifɛ́r)
- Slovak: akvifer m
- Spanish: acuífero (es) m
- Swedish: akvifär c
- Telugu: జల (te) (jala)
- Tibetan: ཆུ་བྲག (chu brag, literally “water rock”)
- Turkish: akifer (tr), sutaşır
- Vietnamese: tầng ngậm nước, tầng chứa nước
- Welsh: dyfrhaen f
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