cistern

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From Middle English cisterne, from Old French cisterne (Modern French citerne) from Latin cisterna, from cista (“box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”). Doublet of cisterna.

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: cisternë — reservoir for holding water
• Albanian: hauz — reservoir for holding water
• Albanian: bot — reservoir for holding water
• Arabic: صِهْرِيج (ṣihrīj) — reservoir for holding water
• Arabic: فِنْطَاس (finṭās) — reservoir for holding water
• Arabic: حَوْض (ḥawḍ) — reservoir for holding water
• Armenian: ցիստերն (cʻistern) — reservoir for holding water
• Azerbaijani: sistern — reservoir for holding water
• Belarusian: цыстэ́рна (cystérna) — reservoir for holding water
• Belarusian: бак (bak) — reservoir for holding water
• Belarusian: рэзервуа́р (rezjervuár) — reservoir for holding water
• Belarusian: рэзэрвуа́р (rezervuár) — reservoir for holding water
• Bulgarian: резервоа́р (rezervoár) — reservoir for holding water
• Bulgarian: цисте́рна (cistérna) — reservoir for holding water
• Burmese: ရေလှောင်ကန် (rehlaungkan) — reservoir for holding water
• Catalan: cisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Chinese Mandarin: 水槽 (shuǐcáo) — reservoir for holding water
• Ngazidja Comorian: isima — reservoir for holding water
• Czech: cisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Dalmatian: cistierna — reservoir for holding water
• Danish: cisterne — reservoir for holding water
• Dutch: cisterne — reservoir for holding water
• Dutch: waterreservoir — reservoir for holding water
• Dutch: regenput — reservoir for holding water
• Dutch: regenwaterput — reservoir for holding water
• Dutch: regenbak — reservoir for holding water
• Dutch: waterkelder — reservoir for holding water
• Esperanto: akvujo — reservoir for holding water
• Esperanto: cisterno — reservoir for holding water
• Estonian: tsistern — reservoir for holding water
• Finnish: vesisäiliö — reservoir for holding water
• Finnish: sadevesisäiliö — reservoir for holding water
• French: citerne — reservoir for holding water
• Middle French: cisterne — reservoir for holding water
• Friulian: cistierne — reservoir for holding water
• Galician: canfurna — reservoir for holding water
• Galician: cisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Galician: alxube — reservoir for holding water
• Galician: alxibe — reservoir for holding water
• Georgian: ცისტერნა (cisṭerna) — reservoir for holding water
• German: Zisterne — reservoir for holding water
• Greek: δεξαμενή (dexamení) — reservoir for holding water
• Greek: στέρνα (stérna) — reservoir for holding water
• Ancient Greek: δεξαμενή (dexamenḗ) — reservoir for holding water
• Ancient Greek: λάκκος (lákkos) — reservoir for holding water
• Ancient Greek: ἔλυτρον (élutron) — reservoir for holding water
• Gujarati: ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī) — reservoir for holding water
• Gujarati: તળાવ (taḷāv) — reservoir for holding water
• Hebrew: גֵּב (gev) — reservoir for holding water
• Hindi: टंकी (ṭaṅkī) — reservoir for holding water
• Hindi: जलाशय (jalāśay) — reservoir for holding water
• Hindi: हौज़ (hauz) — reservoir for holding water
• Hungarian: ciszterna — reservoir for holding water
• Hungarian: víztároló — reservoir for holding water
• Ido: aquuyo — reservoir for holding water
• Indonesian: perigi — reservoir for holding water
• Irish: sistéal — reservoir for holding water
• Istriot: zustierna — reservoir for holding water
• Italian: cisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Japanese: 水槽 (suisō) — reservoir for holding water
• Japanese: 貯水槽 (chosuisō) — reservoir for holding water
• Japanese: タンク (tanku) — reservoir for holding water
• Kazakh: шанаш (şanaş) — reservoir for holding water
• Kazakh: цистерна (sisterna) — reservoir for holding water
• Korean: 탱크 (taengkeu) — reservoir for holding water
• Korean: 수조 (sujo) — reservoir for holding water
• Kyrgyz: цистерна (tsisterna) — reservoir for holding water
• Latin: cisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Latin: lacus — reservoir for holding water
• Latvian: cisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Lithuanian: cisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Macedonian: цистерна (cisterna) — reservoir for holding water
• Māori: kurawai — reservoir for holding water
• Middle English: cisterne — reservoir for holding water
• Norwegian Bokmål: sisterne — reservoir for holding water
• Norwegian Bokmål: cisterne — reservoir for holding water
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sisterne — reservoir for holding water
• Norwegian Nynorsk: cisterne — reservoir for holding water
• Persian: سیسترن (sistern) — reservoir for holding water
• Persian: حوض (howz) — reservoir for holding water
• Polish: cysterna — reservoir for holding water
• Portuguese: cisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Portuguese: algibe — reservoir for holding water
• Romanian: cisternă — reservoir for holding water
• Russian: цисте́рна (cistɛ́rna) — reservoir for holding water
• Russian: бак (bak) — reservoir for holding water
• Russian: резервуа́р (rezervuár) — reservoir for holding water
• Sardinian: chisterra — reservoir for holding water
• Sardinian: cisterra — reservoir for holding water
• Sardinian: gisterra — reservoir for holding water
• Scots: cistren — reservoir for holding water
• Scottish Gaelic: amar — reservoir for holding water
• Serbo-Croatian: цѝсте̄рна — reservoir for holding water
• Serbo-Croatian: cìstērna — reservoir for holding water
• Sicilian: jisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Sicilian: sterna — reservoir for holding water
• Slovak: cisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Slovak: rezervoár — reservoir for holding water
• Slovene: cisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Spanish: aljibe — reservoir for holding water
• Spanish: cisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Swedish: cistern — reservoir for holding water
• Tajik: систерн (sistern) — reservoir for holding water
• Tajik: ҳавз (havz) — reservoir for holding water
• Thai: ถังน้ํา — reservoir for holding water
• Thai: แท็งก์น้ํา — reservoir for holding water
• Thai: ถังเก็บน้ํา — reservoir for holding water
• Tibetan: ཆུ་སྒྲོམ (chu sgrom) — reservoir for holding water
• Tigrinya: ጋው (gaw) — reservoir for holding water
• Turkish: sarnıç — reservoir for holding water
• Ukrainian: цисте́рна (cystérna) — reservoir for holding water
• Ukrainian: бак (bak) — reservoir for holding water
• Ukrainian: резервуа́р (rezervuár) — reservoir for holding water
• Urdu: حَوضْ (hauz) — reservoir for holding water
• Uzbek: sisterna — reservoir for holding water
• Welsh: seston — reservoir for holding water
• Welsh: dyfrgist — reservoir for holding water
• Bulgarian: каза́нче (kazánče) — flush toilet's container
• Dutch: stortbak — flush toilet's container
• Finnish: säiliö — flush toilet's container
• Finnish: vesisäiliö — flush toilet's container
• French: chasse d'eau — flush toilet's container
• German: Spülkasten — flush toilet's container
• Greek: καζανάκι (kazanáki) — flush toilet's container
• Hungarian: víztartály — flush toilet's container
• Norwegian Bokmål: sisterne — flush toilet's container
• Norwegian Bokmål: cisterne — flush toilet's container
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sisterne — flush toilet's container
• Norwegian Nynorsk: cisterne — flush toilet's container
• Russian: бачо́к (bačók) — flush toilet's container
• Spanish: cisterna — flush toilet's container
• Turkish: rezervuar — flush toilet's container