fresh water

See also: freshwater, Freshwater, and fresh-water

English

Noun

fresh water (usually uncountable, plural fresh waters)

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

Synonyms

• freshwater
• sweetwater
• sweet water

 

Hypernyms

• water

 

Related terms

• deionized water
• distilled water
• fresh
• freshwater/fresh-water
• hardwater/hard water/hard-water
• mineral water
• saltwater/salt water/salt-water
• softened water
• softwater/soft water/soft-water
• springwater/spring water/spring-water
• swampwater/swamp water/swamp-water
• sweetwater/sweet water/sweet-water
• tapwater/tap water/tap-water
• water

 

Translations

water with little salt

• Afrikaans: varswater n
• Arabic: مَاءٌ عَذْبٌ‎ m (māʔun ʕaḏbun)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: aigua dolça f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淡水 (zh) (dànshuǐ)

• Danish: ferskvand (da) n
• Dutch: zoet water (nl) n, vers water n
• Esperanto: dolĉakvo
• Estonian: magevesi
• Finnish: makea vesi (fi)
• French: eau douce (fr) f
• Galician: auga doce (gl) f
• Georgian: მტკნარი წყალი (mṭḳnari c̣q̇ali)
• German: Süßwasser (de) n
• Greek: γλυκό νερό n (glykó neró)

  Ancient: γλυκύ ὕδωρ n (glukú húdōr)

• Hebrew: מַיִם מְתוּקִים‎ (he) m pl (mayim metukim)
• Hungarian: édesvíz (hu)
• Italian: acqua dolce f
• Japanese: 淡水 (ja) (たんすい, tansui), 真水 (ja) (まみず, mamizu)
• Korean: 민물 (ko) (minmul), 담수(淡水) (ko) (damsu)
• Latin: aqua dulcis f
• Latvian: saldūdens m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Söötwater (nds) n (Northern Germany, Münsterland)

• Malay: air tawar (ms)
• Malayalam: ശുദ്ധജലം (ml) (śuddhajalaṁ)
• Maori: wai māori
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цэнгэг ус (cengeg us)

  Mongolian: ᠴᠡᠩᢉᠡᠭ
  ᠤᠰᠤ (čeŋgeg usu)

• Norman: ieau douoche f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ferskvann (no) n

  Nynorsk: ferskvatn n

• Occitan: aiga doça f
• 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
• Swahili: maji matamu
• Swedish: sötvatten (sv) n, färskvatten (sv) n
• Thai: น้ำจืด (nám-jʉ̀ʉt)
• Tok Pisin: kolwara
• Turkish: tatlı su (tr)
• Vietnamese: nước ngọt (vi), nước nhạt

Further reading

• fresh water on Wikipedia.Wikipedia