river/translations

This page contains translations for river. See the main entry for more information.

English

Noun

Translations

large stream which drains a landmass

• Abenaki: sibo
• Abkhaz: аʒиас (aʒjas)
• Acehnese: kruëng, alu
• Achuar: entza
• Achumawi: ajúmmá
• Adyghe: псыхъо (psəχʷo)
• Afrikaans: rivier (af)
• Ahtna: c'ena'
• Ainu: ペッ (pet)
• Akkadian: 𒀀𒇉 (nāru)
• Aklanon: suba'
• Albanian: lumi
• Amharic: ወንዝ (wänz)
• Andi: гьадор (hador)
• Antillean Creole: wiviè f, riviè f, rivyè
• Arabela: moo
• Arabic: نَهْر (ar) m (nahr), أَنْهَار pl (ʔanhār), أَنْهُر pl (ʔanhur)

  Egyptian Arabic: نهر m (nahr)

  Hijazi Arabic: نهر m (nahar)

• Aragonese: río m
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܢܗܪܐ m (nahrā)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: נַהֲרָא m (nahărā)

• Armenian: գետ (hy) (get)
• Aromanian: arãu (roa-rup) n
• Assamese: নৈ n (noi), নদী n (nodi), গাং (gaṅ)
• Asturian: ríu (ast) m
• Atayal: llyung
• Avar: гӏор (ʻor)
• Aymara: jawira
• Azerbaijani: çay (az), irmaq
• Baba Malay: sunge
• Bahnar: krong
• Bakung: cungai, sungi
• Baluchi: کور (kor), کھور (khor)
• Bashkir: йылға (yılğa)
• Basque: ibai (eu)
• Bau Bidayuh: sungi, grongung (montane)
• Belarusian: рака́ (be) f (raká) (plural: рэ́кі f pl (réki)), рэ́чка f (réčka) (small)
• Bengali: নদী (bn) (nodi)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: asif m

• Bhojpuri: नदी (nadī)
• Bikol Central: salog (bcl)
• Breton: stêr (br) f, aven (br) f, avon (br) f
• Brunei Malay: sungai
• Bulgarian: река́ (bg) f (reká)
• Burmese: မြစ် (my) (mrac)
• Buryat: гол (gol), мүрэн (müren)
• Car Nicobarese: ta-hël
• Carpathian Rusyn: ріка́ f (riká)
• Catalan: riu (ca) m
• Catawba: iswa
• Cebuano: suba
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵙⵉⴼ m (asif), ⵉⵖⵣⵔ m (iɣzr)
• Central Dusun: bawang
• Central Melanau: bengayi, sungai
• Chakma: 𑄉𑄧𑄋 (gaṅā)
• Chamicuro: maneli
• Chechen: хи (xi)
• Chepang: मातीः
• Cherokee: ᎤᏪᏴ (uweyv), ᎠᎹᏱ (amayi), ᎡᏉᏂ ᎨᏴᎢ (equoni geyvi)
• Chichewa: mtsinje
• Chickasaw: abookoshi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 河 (ho⁴), 江 (yue) (gong¹), 河流 (ho⁴ lau⁴)

  Dungan: хә (hə), җён (ži͡on)

  Eastern Min: 河 (ò̤)

  Gan: 江 (gong¹)

  Hokkien: 河 (hô), 江 (zh-min-nan) (kang)

  Mandarin: 河 (zh) (hé), 河流 (zh) (héliú), 江 (zh) (jiāng), 江河 (zh) (jiānghé) (collectively), 水流 (zh) (shuǐliú), 川 (zh) (chuān), 河川 (zh) (héchuān)

  Wu: 江, 河

  Xiang: 江 (jian¹), 河 (ho²)

• Chuvash: юханшыв (juh̬anš̬yv)
• Classical Nahuatl: ātōyātl
• Comanche: pia hunuubi
• Coptic: ⲉⲓⲟⲟⲣ m (eioor) (Sahidic), ⲓⲟⲣ m (ior) (Bohairic)
• Corsican: fiume m, rivu (co) m
• Cree: sîpîy, sîpiy, sīpiy
• Creek: hvcce
• Crimean Tatar: özen
• Czech: řeka (cs) f
• Dalmatian: floim m
• Danish: flod (da) c, å (da) c
• Dhivehi: ކޯރު sg (kōru)
• Dogrib: deh
• Drung: wang, dong
• Dutch: rivier (nl) m, stroom (nl) m
• Dzongkha: གཙང་ཆུ (gtsang chu)
• Eastern Bontoc: wangwang
• Eastern Cham: ꨯꨴꨆ꨷ (kraung)
• Efik: akpa
• Egyptian: (jtrw)
• Elfdalian: å f, wassl f
• Erzya: лей (ľej)
• Esperanto: rivero (eo)
• Estonian: jõgi (et)
• Even: ока̄т (okāt)
• Evenki: бира (bira)
• Ewe: etɔ
• Extremaduran: ríu m
• Farefare: kʋlaa, kʋlkãtɛ
• Faroese: á (fo) f
• Finnish: joki (fi)
• French: fleuve (fr) m (flowing to the ocean or a sea); rivière (fr) f (others)

  Old French: flueve m

• Friulian: flum m
• Fula:

  Adlam: 𞤥𞤢𞥄𞤴𞤮, 𞤷𞤢𞥄𞤽𞤮𞤤

  Latin: maayo, caangol

• Gagauz: derä
• Galician: río (gl) m
• Georgian: მდინარე (mdinare)
• German: Fluss (de) m, Strom (de) m
• Gorontalo: dutula (gor)
• Greek: ποτάμι (el) n (potámi), ποταμός (el) m (potamós)

  Ancient: ποταμός m (potamós)

• Greenlandic: kuuk
• Guaraní: ysyry
• Gujarati: નદી (gu) f (nadī)
• Haitian Creole: rivyè
• Halkomelem: stó:lō
• Hausa: kogi
• Hawaiian: kahawai, muliwai (near the mouth)
• Hebrew: נָהָר (he) m (nahár)
• Higaonon: suba, wahig
• Hiligaynon: suba
• Hindi: नदी (hi) f (nadī), सरिता (hi) f (saritā), शैलजा (hi) f (śailjā)
• Hiri Motu: sinavai
• Hungarian: folyó (hu), folyam (hu)
• Hunsrik: Fluss m, Rio m
• Iban: sungai
• Icelandic: fljót (is) n, á (is) f, elfur (is) f
• Ido: rivero (io)
• Igbo: uji, mmiri
• Ilocano: karayan
• Inari Sami: juuhâ
• Indonesian: sungai (id)
• Ingrian: joki
• Interlingua: fluvio
• Inuktitut: ᑰᒃ (iu) (kook)
• Inuktun: kuuk
• Inupiaq: kuuk
• Iraqw: yaaee f
• Irish: abhainn (ga) f

  Old Irish: aub f

• Istriot: fioûme m
• Italian: fiume (it) m, rivo m
• Iu Mien: ndaaih
• Japanese: 川 (ja) (かわ, kawa)
• Javanese: kali, lèpèn
• Jurchen: bira
• Kabardian: псыхъо (psəχʷo)
• Kabiyé: pɔɔ
• Kalmyk: һол (ğol) (regular), мөрн (mörn) (big)
• Kanakanabu: cakʉran
• Kannada: ನದಿ (kn) (nadi), ಹೊಳೆ (kn) (hoḷe)
• Kapampangan: ilug
• Karachay-Balkar: черек (çerek), суу (suu)
• Karelian: jogi
• Kashaya: ʔahqʰa
• Kashmiri: नदी (nadī)
• Kashubian: rzéka f
• Kazakh: өзен (kk) (özen)
• Khakas: суғ (suğ), ағын (ağın)
• Khasi: wah
• Khmer: ទន្លេ (km) (tŭənlei)
• Kinaray-a: suba
• Kituba: nzadi
• Klamath-Modoc: ɢoɢe
• Komi-Permyak: ва (va)
• Komi-Zyrian: ю (ju)
• Kongo: mubu
• Korean: 강(江) (ko) (gang), 수(水) (ko) (su), 가람 (ko) (garam)
• Koryak: вʼэем (v'ėjem)
• Kumyk: оьзен (özen)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: çem (ku) m, robar (ku) m, ro (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: өзөн (ky) (özön), суу (ky) (suu), дарыя (ky) (darıya), дайра (ky) (dayra)
• Laboya: laiwe
• Ladin:

  gherdëina/fascian: ruf m

  badiot: rü m

• Ladino: rio m
• Lao: ແມ່ນ້ຳ (mǣ nam)
• Latgalian: upe f
• Latin: flūmen (la) n, fluvius m, amnis (la) m, rīpāria f
• Latvian: upe (lv) f
• Ligurian: sciùmme m
• Limburgish: reveer (li) f, vlód m
• Lingala: ebale class 7
• Lithuanian: upė (lt) f
• Livonian: jog, joug
• Livvi: jogi
• Lolopo: vizzarmo, lazzarmo
• Lombard: fiumm m
• Lü: ᦶᦩ (xwae), ᦷᦀᧉᦆᦱᧉ (˙ʼo²xaa²), ᦶᦙᧈᦓᧄᧉ (mae¹nam²)
• Lubuagan Kalinga: chewwang
• Luganda: omugga
• Luhya: eluchi
• Lushootseed: stúləkʷ
• Luxembourgish: Floss (lb) m, Stroum m
• Macedonian: река (mk) f (reka)
• Maguindanao: pulangi
• Malagasy: mivory (mg)
• Malay:

  Jawi: سوڠاي (ms), الور (ms), الير, باتڠ, بڠاون, کالي, واءي, چي, سإيي

  Rumi: sungai (ms), alur (ms), alir, batang (ms), bengawan, kali (ms), wai (ms), ci (ms), sei (ms)

• Malayalam: നദി (ml) (nadi)
• Maltese: xmara f
• Manchu: ᠪᡳᡵᠠ (bira) (regular), ᡠᠯᠠ (ula) (big), ᡤᠣᠣᠯ (gool) (borrowed from Mongolian), ᡩᠠᡵᡳᠶᠠ (dariya) (rare, borrowed from Uyghur)
• Manx: awin f
• Maore Comorian: muro class 3/4
• Maori: awa
• Maranao: iyolog, isoba', polangi
• Marathi: नदी (mr) f (nadī), सरिता f (saritā)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: эҥер (eŋer)

• Marwari: नंदी (nandī)
• Mbyá Guaraní: yakã
• Meänkieli: joki, väylä
• Middle English: strem, ryver, flod
• Middle Mongol: ᠮᠥᠷᠡᠨ (mören)
• Minangkabau: sungai (min)
• Mingrelian: წყარმალუ (c̣q̇armalu)
• Mirandese: riu m
• Mizo: lui
• Moksha: ляй (ľaj)
• Mon: ကြုၚ် (krɜŋ), ၜဳ (ḅī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гол (mn) (gol) (regular), мөрөн (mn) (mörön) (big)

  Mongolian: ᠭᠣᠤᠯ (ɣoul) (regular), ᠮᠥᠷᠡᠨ (mören) (big)

• Motu: sinavai
• Muong: không
• Nanai: мангбо (maŋbo)
• Nandi: aina
• Nanticoke: pamptuckquah'
• Nauruan: ekaw (na)
• Navajo: tooh nílíní, tooh
• Naxi: hoq, jjihoq
• Neapolitan: ciume m
• Nepali: नदी (ne) (nadī)
• Newar: खुसि (khusi)
• Ngarrindjeri: kuri
• Ngazidja Comorian: mro wa madji class 3/4
• Nivkh: эри (eri), и (i)
• Norman: riviéthe f (Jersey)
• North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) struum m
• Northern Sami: johka
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flod (no) m, elv (no) m or f, å (no) m

• Nottoway-Meherrin: joke
• Nuosu: ꒊꃀ (yyp mop)
• Nyunga: beerliya
• Occitan: riu (oc) m
• Odia: ନଦୀ (or) (nadi)
• Ojibwe: ziibi, ziibi
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: рѣка f (rěka)

  Glagolitic: ⱃⱑⰽⰰ f (rěka)

• Old East Slavic: рѣка f (rěka)
• Old English: ēa f
• Old French: floeve m
• Old Galician-Portuguese: rio
• Old Javanese: kali
• Old Norse: á f, elfr f
• Old Prussian: apē
• Old Saxon: aha f, flōd m
• Old Tupi: y
• Old Turkic: 𐰽𐰆𐰉 (sub)
• Oromo: laga
• Ossetian: дон (don), цӕугӕдон (cæwgædon), фурд (furd)
• Ottoman Turkish: ایرماق (ırmak)
• Pali: nadī f
• Pannonian Rusyn: рика f (rika)
• Papiamentu: riu
• Pashto: سيند (ps) m (sīnd)
• Pennsylvania German: Rewwer
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: رود (fa) (rud), رودْخانِه (fa) (rudxâne), نَهْر (fa) (nahr), دَرْیا (fa) (daryâ)

• Piedmontese: fium m
• Plautdietsch: Fluss m, Riwa m
• Polabian: rė́ka f
• Polish: rzeka (pl) f
• Portuguese: rio (pt) m, flume m (obsolete, poetic)
• Powhatan: yeokanta
• Punjabi: ਦਰਿਆ (pa) m (dariā), ਨਦੀ f (nadī)
• Quechua: mayu (qu)
• Romanian: râu (ro) n, fluviu (ro) n
• Romansch: flum m
• Russian: река́ (ru) f (reká), (small) ре́чка (ru) f (réčka)
• Rwanda-Rundi: uruzi
• S'gaw Karen: ထံကျိ (hṭee kloh)
• Saanich: ^{(please verify)} STO,LU,
• Sango: bali
• Sanskrit: नदी (sa) f (nadī), स्रोतस् (sa) n (srotas)
• Sardinian: arriu, ribu, erriu, irriu, riu, rivu, fiúmene, flúmini, frúmene, frumi, frúmine, frúmini
• Saterland Frisian: Äi
• Scots: river
• Scottish Gaelic: abhainn f
• Sebop: cungai, sungi
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ре́ка f, рије́ка f

  Roman: réka (sh) f, rijéka (sh) f

• Shan: မႄႈၼမ်ႉ (shn) (māae nâ̰m)
• Shawnee: θiːpi
• Sicilian: ciumi (scn) m, çiumi (scn)
• Sidamo: laga
• Silesian: rzyka f
• Sindhi: دَرياءُ m (daryāu)
• Sinhalese: ගඟ (si) (gaⁿga)
• Skolt Sami: jokk
• Slovak: rieka (sk) f
• Slovene: réka (sl) f
• Slovincian: rzéka f
• Somali: webi m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rěka f

  Upper Sorbian: rěka f

• Sotho: noka
• Southern Altai: суу (suu)
• Southern Kalinga: chawwang
• Southern Yukaghir: унун (unun)
• Spanish: río (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: liba
• Sudovian: upa
• Sundanese: wahangan (su), walungan (su)
• Swahili: mto (sw)
• Swedish: flod (sv) c, älv (sv) c, å (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠘꠖꠤ (nodi), ꠉꠣꠋ (gaṅ)
• Tagalog: ilog (tl)
• Tajik: рӯд (tg) (rüd), дарё (tg) (daryo), наҳр (tg) (nahr)
• Talysh: ru, ربار (rəbâr)
• Tamil: ஆறு (ta) (āṟu), அருவி (ta) (aruvi), நதி (ta) (nati)
• Tarantino: jume m
• Tarifit: iɣzar m
• Tatar: елга (tt) (yelga), дәрья (tt) (där’ya)
• Tausug: suba, sapa
• Tày: tả
• Telugu: నది (te) (nadi)
• Tetum: mota
• Thai: แม่น้ำ (th) (mɛ̂ɛ-náam)
• Tibetan: གཙང་ཆུ (gtsang chu), ཆུ་བོ (chu bo), ཆུ་ཆེན (chu chen)
• Tigrinya: ፈለግ (fäläg)
• Tlingit: héen
• Tocharian B: cake
• Tok Pisin: wara (tpi), hanwara
• Tulu: ಸುದೆ (sude)
• Turkish: ırmak (tr), nehir (tr)
• Turkmen: derýa
• Tutelo: taksitai
• Tuvan: хем (xem), суг (sug)
• Tuwali Ifugao: wangwang
• Udmurt: шур (šur)
• Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎅𐎗 (nhr)
• Ukrainian: ріка́ f (riká), (small) рі́чка (uk) f (ríčka)
• Umotína: pó
• Unami: sipu
• Urdu: نَدی f (nadī), دَرْیا m (daryā)
• Uyghur: دەريا (derya)
• Uzbek: daryo (uz)
• Venetan: fiume, fium
• Veps: jogi
• Vietnamese: sông (vi), giang (vi) (only in compounds), hà (vi) (only in compounds)
• Vilamovian: fłūs m
• Volapük: flumed (vo)
• Võro: jõgi
• Votic: jõtši
• Walloon: aiwe (wa) f, mouze (wa) m, fleuve (wa) m, rivire (wa) f
• Waray-Waray: salog
• Welsh: afon (cy) f
• West Frisian: rivier (fy), stream
• Western Panjabi: دریا (pnb) m (daryā), ندی f (nadī)
• White Hmong: dej
• Wiradjuri: bila
• Wolof: dex (wo)
• Xhosa: umlambo class 3/4
• Yagnobi: дайро (dayro)
• Yakut: өрүс (örüs)
• Yámana: winu
• Yiddish: טײַך m (taykh)
• Yoruba: odò, ẹri
• Yup'ik: kuik
• Zazaki: ro (diq), rıo, çem (diq)
• Zealandic: rivier
• Zhuang: dah
• Zulu: umfula (zu) class 3/4
• Zuni: k'yawinanne

any large flow of a liquid

• Armenian: հեղեղ (hy) (heġeġ)
• Catalan: riu (ca) m
• Czech: potok (cs) m
• Danish: flod (da) c
• Dutch: stroom (nl) m
• Finnish: virta (fi)
• French: torrent (fr) m
• Galician: río (gl) m
• German: Strom (de) m
• Hindi: नदी (hi) f (nadī)
• Icelandic: fljót (is) n
• Japanese: 流 (ja) (ryu) (suffix)
• Latin: rīpāria f
• Macedonian: река (mk) f (reka)
• Middle English: strem, ryver, flod
• Portuguese: rio (pt) m
• Russian: река́ (ru) f (reká)
• Spanish: río (es) m
• Swahili: mto (sw)
• Swedish: flod (sv) c
• Tagalog: agusan
• Tok Pisin: wara (tpi)
• Ukrainian: ріка́ f (riká)
• Zazaki: royer m

poker: last card dealt

• Finnish: river (fi), viimeinen avokortti
• Latin: rīpāria f
• Swahili: mto (sw)

typography: visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page

• Arabic: نهر أبيض
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 川流 (zh)

• Czech: řeka (cs)
• Finnish: joki (fi)
• French: lézarde (fr)
• German: Gießbach (de)
• Hungarian: csatorna (hu)
• Italian: canaletto m
• Polish: kanaliki
• Portuguese: caminho de rato m
• Russian: коридор (ru) (koridor)
• Spanish: calle (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ainu: ^{(please verify)} ペッ, ^{(please verify)} ペㇳ (pet)
• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} lumë (sq) f
• Betawi: ^{(please verify)} kali
• Blackfoot: ^{(please verify)} niitahtaa
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} stêr (br) f, ^{(please verify)} stêrioù (br) pl
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} река (bg) f (reka)
• Cebuano: ^{(please verify)} sapa'
• Cree: ^{(please verify)} sipiy
• Dyirbal: (class II) ^{(please verify)} yuramu
• Ewe: ^{(please verify)} tɔsisi
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} río (gl) m
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} მდინარე (mdinare)
• Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} ysyry
• Gujarati: ^{(please verify)} નદી (gu) (nadī)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} folyó (hu)
• Ilocano: ^{(please verify)} karayan
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} fluvio, ^{(please verify)} riviera
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} fiume (it) m
• Kannada: ^{(please verify)} ನದಿ (kn) (nadi), ^{(please verify)} ಹೊಳೆ (kn) (hoḷe)
• Khmer: ^{(please verify)} ទន្លេ (km) (dtūənlēi)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 내 (ko) (nae), ^{(please verify)} 수(水) (ko) (su), ^{(please verify)} 강(江) (ko) (gang), ^{(please verify)} 가람 (ko) (garam)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} ڕوبار (rubar)

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} çem (ku), ^{(please verify)} ro (ku), ^{(please verify)} robar (ku)

• Kyrgyz: ^{(please verify)} дария (ky) (dariya)
• Lakota: ^{(please verify)} wakpa
• Lao: ^{(please verify)} ແມ່ນ້ຳ (mǣ nam)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} flumen (la) n, ^{(please verify)} fluvius m
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} പുഴ (ml) (puḻa)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} xmara f
• Maori: ^{(please verify)} awa
• Marathi: ^{(please verify)} नदी (mr) (nadī)
• Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} гол (mn) (gol)
• Nepali: नदी (ne) (nadī)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} elv (no), ^{(please verify)} flod (no)
• Ojibwe: ^{(please verify)} ziibi, ^{(please verify)} ziibiwan pl
• Punjabi: ^{(please verify)} ਨਦ (nad)
• Rohingya: ^{(please verify)} hál
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} râu (ro) n, ^{(please verify)} fluviu (ro) n
• Samoan: ^{(please verify)} vaitafe
• Sanskrit: ^{(please verify)} नदि (sa) (nadi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} ре́ка f, ^{(please verify)} рије́ка f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} réka (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} rijéka (sh) f

• Slovak: (1) ^{(please verify)} rieka (sk) f, ^{(please verify)} prúdy m pl (2)
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} réka (sl) f
• Surigaonon: ^{(please verify)} suba'
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} mto (sw) class 3/4
• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} ilog (tl), ^{(please verify)} agos ng tubig , (narrow flow of water-sapa, ilat) ^{(please verify)} munting ilog
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} ஆறு (ta) (āṟu)
• Taos: ^{(please verify)} pʼȍʼóna
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} నది (te) (nadi)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} แม่น้ำ (th) (mâe náam)
• Tibetan: ^{(please verify)} ཆུ (chu)
• Tupinambá: ^{(please verify)} 'y
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} دریا (daryā)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} hà (vi), ^{(please verify)} giang (vi), ^{(please verify)} sông (vi)
• Waray-Waray: ^{(please verify)} salog
• Wolof: ^{(please verify)} dex (wo)
• Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} טײַך m (taykh)