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drinking water usually uncountable , plural drinking waters
Water that is suitable or intended for ingestion by humans: potable water.
Hypernyms: water drink beverage liquid substance Hyponym: bottled water Near-synonym: tap water ( for washing and, ideally, drinking too ) 2001 Springs and Bottled Waters of the World →ISBN 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 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.
water for human consumption
Albanian: ujë të pijshëm m
Altai:
Southern Altai: ичетен суу ( ičeten suu )
Arabic: مَاء شُرْب m ( māʔ šurb ) , مَاء صَالِح لِلشُّرْبِ m ( māʔ ṣāliḥ li-š-šurbi )
Armenian: խմելու ջուր ( xmelu ǰur )
Asturian: agua potable f
Azerbaijani: içməli su
Belarusian: пітна́я вада́ f ( pitnája vadá )
Bengali: পানীয় জল ( paniẏo jol )
Bulgarian: пите́йна вода́ f ( pitéjna vodá )
Burmese: သောက်ရေ (my) ( sauk-re )
Catalan: aigua potable f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 食水 ( sik6 seoi2 )
Mandarin: 飲用水 / 饮用水 (zh) ( yǐnyòngshuǐ ) , 飲水 / 饮水 (zh) ( yǐnshuǐ )
Crimean Tatar: içilgen suv
Czech: pitná voda (cs) f
Danish: drikkevand (da) n
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
Georgian: სასმელი წყალი ( sasmeli c̣q̇ali )
German: Trinkwasser (de) n
Greek: πόσιμο νερό n ( pósimo neró )
Hebrew: מֵי שְׁתִייָה m
Hindi: पेयजल m ( peyjal ) , पीने का पानी m ( pīne kā pānī )
Hopi: kuuyi ( in a container )
Hungarian: ivóvíz (hu)
Icelandic: drykkjarvatn (is) n
Indonesian: air minum (id)
Irish: uisce óil m
Italian: acqua potabile f
Japanese: 飲用水 (ja) ( いんようすい, inyōsui ) , 飲み水 (ja) ( のみみず, nomimizu ) , 飲料水 (ja) ( いんりょうすい, inryōsui )
Kashmiri: ترٛیش f ( trٛēś )
Kazakh: ауыз су ( auyz su )
Khmer: ទឹកផឹក ( tɨk phək )
Korean: 식수(食水) (ko) ( siksu ) , 음용수(飮用水) (ko) ( eumyongsu ) ( academic )
Kyrgyz: ичилчү суу ( icilcü suu )
Lao: ນ້ຳດື່ມ (lo) ( nam dư̄m )
Latin: aqua salūbri potu f ( New Latin )
Latvian: dzeramais ūdens m
Lithuanian: geriamasis vanduo m
Macedonian: вода за пиење f ( voda za pienje ) , питка вода f ( pitka voda )
Malay: air minum (ms) , air minuman
Māori: wai inu
Marathi: प्यायचे पाणी n ( pyāyce pāṇī )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: ундны ус ( undny us )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: drikkevann n
Nynorsk: drikkevatn n
Persian:
Iranian Persian: آبِ آشامیدَنی ( âb-e âšâmidani )
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
Latin: pitka voda f
Slovak: pitná voda f
Slovene: pitna voda f
Spanish: agua potable f
Swahili: maji ya kunywa
Swedish: dricksvatten (sv) n
Tagalog: inuming tubig
Tajik: оби нӯшиданӣ ( ob-i nüšidani )
Tamil: குடிநீர் (ta) ( kuṭinīr ) , உண்ணீர் (ta) ( uṇṇīr )
Telugu: తాగునీరు (te) ( tāgunīru ) , త్రాగునీరు (te) ( trāgunīru )
Thai: น้ำดื่ม (th) ( náam-dʉ̀ʉm ) , น้ำกิน ( náam-gin )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: içme suyu (tr)
Ukrainian: питна́ вода́ f ( pytná vodá )
Urdu: پِینے کا پانی m ( pīne kā pānī )
Uzbek: ichiladigan suv
Vietnamese: nước uống (vi)
Yao (Africa): meesi gakumwa class 6
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