English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin aestuarium (“creek”, “estuary of a river”).
Noun
estuary (plural estuaries)
- Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.
- An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.
Derived terms
Translations
place where ocean tides and river water merge
- Afrikaans: estuarium
- Albanian: deltë (sq) f
- Armenian: գետաբերան (hy) (getaberan)
- Azerbaijani: dəhnə, estuari
- Basque: estuario
- Belarusian: эстуа́рый m (estuáryj), ву́сце n (vúscje)
- Bulgarian: естуа́р m (estuár)
- Catalan: estuari (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 河口 (zh) (hékǒu), 出海口 (chūhǎikǒu), 入海口 (zh) (rùhǎikǒu)
- Czech: ústí (cs) n
- Danish: æstuarium n
- Dutch: estuarium (nl)
- Esperanto: estuaro
- Estonian: estuaar, lehtersuue
- Faroese: ósi m, áarósi m
- Finnish: murtovesi (fi), murtovesialue, estuaari (fi)
- French: estuaire (fr) m
- Galician: esteiro m, ría f
- Georgian: ესტუარი (esṭuari)
- German: Ästuar (de) n, Flussmündung (de) f
- Greek: εκβολή (el) f (ekvolí), κολπίσκος (el) m (kolpískos)
- Hungarian: tölcsértorkolat (hu)
- Icelandic: ármynni n, árós f
- Ido: estuario (io)
- Indonesian: estuari (id)
- Iranun: penggak
- Irish: inbhir m
- Italian: estuario (it) m
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- Japanese: 河口 (ja) (かこう kakō)
- Korean: 삼각강 (samgakgang), 하구 (ko) (hagu), 강어귀 (gang'eogwi)
- Latin: aestuārium n
- Latvian: grīva (lv) f, estuārijs
- Lithuanian: estuarija f
- Macedonian: естуар m (estuar)
- Malay: muara
- Manx: inver
- Maori: pūaha, pūwaha, pūahatanga, wahapū
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: estuar n
- Nynorsk: estuar n
- Polish: estuarium (pl) n
- Portuguese: estuário (pt) m
- Romanian: estuar (ro) m
- Russian: эстуа́рий (ru) m (estuárij), у́стье (ru) n (ústʹje)
- Scottish Gaelic: inbhir m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: естуариј m, естуар m
- Roman: estuarij (sh) m, estuar m
- Slovak: ústie n
- Slovene: estuarij (sl) m
- Spanish: estuario m
- Swedish: estuarium n, estuarie
- Tagalog: wawa
- Thai: ปากน้ำ (pàak náam)
- Turkish: haliç (tr)
- Ukrainian: естуа́рій m (estuárij), у́стя n (ústja), ги́рло (uk) n (hýrlo)
- Welsh: aber (cy)
- West Coast Bajau: boa' soang
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