aquifer

See also: Aquifer and aqüífer

English

Nubian sandstone aquifer, Egypt

Etymology

From Latin aqua (“water”) + -fer (“-bearing”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈækwɪfə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑkwɪfɝ/, /ˈækwɪfɝ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

aquifer (plural aquifers)

1. 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.

Coordinate terms

• aquitard

 

Derived terms

• aquitard
• artesian aquifer
• N-aquifer

 

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: paparanga kī wai, paparanga pukuwai
• 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

See also

• oasis