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Definition 2024

fresh_water

fresh water

See also: freshwater, Freshwater, and fresh-water

English

Noun

fresh water ‎(uncountable)

Water with a very low content of dissolved salt, as opposed to brackish water or salt water.

Related terms

freshwater

Translations

water with little salt

Bulgarian:
Catalan: aigua dolça f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 淡水 (zh) ‎(dànshuǐ)
Dutch: zoet water (nl) n, vers water n
Esperanto: dolĉakvo
Estonian: magevesi
Finnish: makea vesi (fi)
French: eau douce (fr) f
Galician: auga doce f
Georgian:
German: Süßwasser (de) n
Greek: γλυκό νερό n ‎(glykó neró)
Hungarian: édesvíz (hu)
Italian: acqua dolce f
Japanese: 淡水 (ja) ‎(たんすい, tansui)
Norman: ieau douoche f
Korean: 민물 (ko) ‎(minmul), 담수 (ko) ‎(damsu) (淡水 (ko))

Low German:
German Low German: Söötwater (nds) n (Northern Germany, Münsterland)
Malay: air tawar
Maori: wai māori
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ferskvann (no) n
Persian: آب شیرین (fa) ‎(âb-e širin)
Polish: słodka woda
Portuguese: água doce f
Romanian: apă dulce f
Russian: пре́сная вода́ f ‎(présnaja vodá)
Scottish Gaelic: fìor-uisge m
Spanish: agua dulce f
Swedish: sötvatten (sv) n, färskvatten n
Tok Pisin: kolwara
Turkish: tatlı su (tr)