drinking water

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Noun

drinking water (usually uncountable, plural drinking waters)

1. Water that is suitable or intended for ingestion by humans.

   Synonym: potable water

   • 2001, Philip E. LaMoreaux with Judy T. Tanner, Springs and Bottled Waters of the World, →ISBN, page 166:

     One day a saint, wandering in the vicinity in search of drinking water, fainted. As he regained his senses, he could hear the trickle of water running from the Pot. He drank his fill and since then the spring has never gone dry.

   • 2013, James E. Brady with Keith M. Prufer, In the Maw of the Earth Monster: Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use, →ISBN:

     It seems unlikely that the ancient Maya would have ventured into Actun Pech in search of drinking water when it could have been more easily and regularly procured from local wells. Rather, the water collected from Actun Pech and other caves discussed below, was likely valued for its remote and sacred origin.

Translations

water for humans

• Arabic: مَاء شُرْب (māʔ šurb)
• Asturian: agua potable f
• Bulgarian: питейна вода f (pitejna voda)
• Catalan: aigua potable f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飲用水 / 饮用水 (zh) (yǐnyòngshuǐ)

• Crimean Tatar: içilgen suv
• Czech: pitná voda (cs) f
• Danish: drikkevand (da)
• Dutch: drinkwater (nl) n
• Esperanto: trinkakvo
• Estonian: joogivesi (et)
• Finnish: juomavesi (fi)
• French: eau potable (fr) f
• Galician: auga potable (gl) f, auga potábel (gl) f
• German: Trinkwasser (de) n
• Greek: πόσιμο νερό n (pósimo neró)
• Hindi: पेयजल (peyjal)
• Hungarian: ivóvíz (hu)
• Icelandic: drykkjarvatn (is) n
• Indonesian: air minum (id)
• Italian: acqua potabile f
• Japanese: 飲用水 (ja) (いんようすい, inyōsui)
• Kashmiri: ترٛیش f (trٛēś)
• Kazakh: ауыз су (auyz su)
• Khmer: ទឹកផឹក (tɨkphək)
• Korean: 식수 (ko) (siksu), 음용수 (ko) (eumyongsu) (academic)
• Lao: ນ້ຳດື່ມ (lo) (nam dư̄m)
• Latin: aqua salūbri potu f (New Latin)
• Malay: air minum (ms), air minuman
• Maori: wai inu
• Marathi: प्यायचे पाणी n (pyāyce pāṇī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drikkevann n

  Nynorsk: drikkevatn n

• Polish: woda pitna f
• Portuguese: água potável f
• Romanian: apă potabilă f, apă de băut f
• Russian: питьева́я вода́ (ru) f (pitʹjevája vodá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: питка вода f

  Roman: pitka voda f

• Slovak: pitná voda
• Slovene: pitna voda f
• Spanish: agua potable f
• Swahili: maji ya kunywa
• Swedish: dricksvatten (sv) n
• Tagalog: inuming tubig
• Telugu: తాగునీరు (te) (tāgunīru), త్రాగునీరు (trāgunīru)
• Thai: น้ำดื่ม (th) (náam-dʉ̀ʉm), น้ำกิน
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: içme suyu (tr)
• Ukrainian: питна вода f (pytna voda)
• Vietnamese: nước uống (vi)

References

• “drinking_water”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “drinking water”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “drinking water”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.