English
Pronunciation
Noun
fresh water (usually uncountable, plural fresh waters)
- Water with a very low content of dissolved salt, as opposed to brackish water or salt water.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- deionized water
- distilled water
- freshwater, fresh-water
- hardwater, hard water, hard-water
- mineral water
- saltwater, salt water, salt-water
- softened water
- softwater, soft water, soft-water
- springwater, spring water, spring-water
- swampwater, swamp water, swamp-water
- sweetwater
- tapwater, tap water, tap-water
Translations
water with little salt
- Afrikaans: varswater n
- Albanian: ujë të freskët f
- Arabic: مَاء عَذْب m (māʔ ʕaḏb)
- Armenian: քաղցրահամ ջուր (hy) (kʻaġcʻraham ǰur)
- Azerbaijani: içməli su
- Belarusian: прэ́сная вада́ f (présnaja vadá)
- Bengali: স্বাদু পানি (śadu pani)
- Bulgarian: пря́сна вода́ f (prjásna vodá), пря́сна во́да f (prjásna vóda)
- Burmese: ရေချို (my) (rehkyui)
- Catalan: aigua dolça f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 淡水 (taam5 seoi2)
- Mandarin: 淡水 (zh) (dànshuǐ)
- Czech: sladká voda (cs) f
- Danish: ferskvand (da) n
- Dutch: zoet water (nl) n
- Esperanto: dolĉakvo
- Estonian: magevesi
- Finnish: makea vesi (fi)
- French: eau douce (fr) f
- Gagauz: tatlı su
- Galician: auga doce (gl) f
- Georgian: მტკნარი წყალი (mṭḳnari c̣q̇ali)
- German: Süßwasser (de) n
- Greek: γλυκό νερό n (glykó neró)
- Ancient: γλυκύ ὕδωρ n (glukú húdōr)
- Hebrew: מַיִם מְתוּקִים (he) m pl (mayim metukim)
- Hindi: मीठा जल m (mīṭhā jal)
- Hungarian: édesvíz (hu)
- Icelandic: ferskvatn n
- Indonesian: air tawar (id)
- Irish: fionnuisce m, fíoruisce m
- Italian: acqua dolce f
- Japanese: 淡水 (ja) (たんすい, tansui), 真水 (ja) (まみず, mamizu)
- Kazakh: тұщы су (tūşy su)
- Khmer: ទឹកសាប (km) (tɨk saap)
- Korean: 민물 (ko) (minmul), 담수(淡水) (ko) (damsu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: ava şîrîn (ku)
- Kyrgyz: таза суу (taza suu)
- Lao: ນ້ໍາຈືດ (nam chư̄t)
- Latin: aqua dulcis f
- Latvian: saldūdens m
- Lithuanian: gėlas vanduo (lt) m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Söötwater (nds) n (Northern Germany, Münsterland)
- Macedonian: свежа вода f (sveža voda), слатка вода f (slatka voda)
- Malay: air tawar (ms)
- Malayalam: ശുദ്ധജലം (ml) (śuddhajalaṁ)
- Maori: wai māori
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: цэвэр ус (cever us), цэнгэг ус (cengeg us)
- Mongolian: ᠴᠡᠪᠡᠷ
ᠤᠰᠤ (čeber usu), (please verify) ᠴᠡᠩᢉᠡᠭ
ᠤᠰᠤ
- Norman: ieau douoche f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ferskvann (no) n
- Nynorsk: ferskvatn n
- Occitan: aiga doça f
- Old Norse: vatn n
- Pashto: تازه اوبه f (tāza obǝ)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: آبِ شیرین (fa) (âb-e širin)
- Polish: słodka woda f
- Portuguese: água doce f
- Romanian: apă dulce f
- Russian: пре́сная вода́ f (présnaja vodá)
- Scottish Gaelic: fìor-uisge m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: слатка вода f, свежа вода f, свјежа вода f
- Roman: slatka voda f, sveža voda f, svježa voda f
- Slovak: sladká voda f
- Slovene: sveža voda f, sladka voda (sl) f
- Spanish: agua dulce f
- Swahili: maji matamu
- Swedish: sötvatten (sv) n, färskvatten (sv) n
- Tajik: оби ширин (ob-i širin)
- Thai: น้ำจืด (nám-jʉ̀ʉt)
- Tiwi: kukuni m
- Tok Pisin: kolwara
- Turkish: tatlı su (tr)
- Ukrainian: прі́сна вода́ f (prísna vodá)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: chuchuk suv
- Vietnamese: nước ngọt (vi), nước nhạt
- Welsh: dŵr croyw m
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