fresh water

See also: freshwater, Freshwater, and fresh-water

English

fresh water (usually uncountable, plural fresh waters)

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

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 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)
Korean: 민물 (ko) (minmul), 담수 (ko) (damsu) (淡水 (ko))
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Low German:
German Low German: Söötwater (nds) n (Northern Germany, Münsterland)
Malay: air tawar
Maori: wai māori
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
Swedish: sötvatten (sv) n, färskvatten (sv) n
Tok Pisin: kolwara
Turkish: tatlı su (tr)
Vietnamese: nước ngọt (vi), nước nhạt