salt water

See also: saltwater and salt-water

English

Alternative forms

• saltwater, salt-water

Pronunciation

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Noun

salt water (countable and uncountable, plural salt waters)

1. Any water containing dissolved salt; brine.

Hypernyms

• water

Hyponyms

• seawater

Translations

any water containing dissolved salt

• Afrikaans: soutwater
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: тусту суу (tustu suu)

• Arabic: مَاء مِلْح m (māʔ milḥ)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: ur gazi
• Bhojpuri: खारा पानी (khārā pānī), खार पानी (khār pānī)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: aigua salada f (salty water); salmorra f (brine)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹽水 / 盐水 (zh) (yánshuǐ), 鹹水 / 咸水 (zh) (xiánshuǐ)

• Cornish: hyli m
• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: saltvand (da) n
• Dutch: zout water (nl) n
• Esperanto: salakvo
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: suolavesi (fi)
• French: eau salée (fr) f
• Galician: auga salgada (gl) f, salsa (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Salzwasser (de) n
• Greek: αλατόνερο (el) n (alatónero), αλμυρό νερό (el) n (almyró neró)
• Guarani:

  Mbya Guarani: ye'ẽ

• Hindi: खारा पानी m (khārā pānī), खारा जल m (khārā jal)
• Hungarian: sós víz
• Hunsrik: Salswasser n
• Ingrian: soolavesi
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 塩水 (ja) (しおみず, shiomizu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 소금물 (sogeummul)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: sālsūdens m
• Lü: ᦓᧄᧉᦵᦂᦲ (nam²k̇oe)
• Luxembourgish: Salzwaasser n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: saltvann (no) n, saltvatn n

  Nynorsk: saltvatn n

• Old Norse: sær m, sjór m
• Persian: آب شور (fa) sg (āb-e šūr)
• Plautdietsch: Soltwota n
• Portuguese: água salgada f
• Rohingya: nunfaní
• Russian: солёная вода́ f (soljónaja vodá)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: saltvatten (sv) n
• Tagalog: tubig alat
• Tanana:

  Lower Tanana: notu'

• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: ཚྭ་ཆུ (tshwa chu)
• Turkish: tuzlu su (tr)
• Unami: shëwanpi
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: nước mặn (vi)
• Welsh: heli m
• Yiddish: זאַלצנוואַסער (zaltsnvaser)

brine — see brine