holy water

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊli ˌwɔːtə/
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• General-American: /ˈhoʊli ˌwɔtəɹ/
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• General-American: [-ɾəɹ]
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• General-American, cot-caught-merger: /-ˌwɑtəɹ/
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From Middle English holy water, haly water, hali water, holiwater, halywater, from Old English hāliġwæter (“holy water”), equivalent to holy + water.

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: heilige water — water, sanctified
• Albanian: uji i bekuar — water, sanctified
• Albanian: ajazmë — water, sanctified
• Arabic: مَاء مُقَدَّس (māʔ muqaddas) — water, sanctified
• Armenian: օրհնված ջուր (ōrhnvac ǰur) — water, sanctified
• Basque: ur bedeinkatu — water, sanctified
• Breton: dour benniget — water, sanctified
• Bulgarian: светена вода (svetena voda) — water, sanctified
• Catalan: aigua beneita — water, sanctified
• Catalan: aigua beneïda — water, sanctified
• Chinese Mandarin: 聖水 /圣水 (shèngshuǐ) — water, sanctified
• Czech: svěcená voda — water, sanctified
• Danish: vievand — water, sanctified
• Dutch: wijwater — water, sanctified
• Esperanto: sankta akvo — water, sanctified
• Estonian: püha vesi — water, sanctified
• Finnish: vihkivesi — water, sanctified
• French: eau bénite — water, sanctified
• Galician: auga bendita — water, sanctified
• Georgian: წმინდა წყალი (c̣minda c̣q̇ali) — water, sanctified
• Georgian: ნაკურთხი წყალი (naḳurtxi c̣q̇ali) — water, sanctified
• German: Weihwasser — water, sanctified
• Greek: αγίασμα (agíasma) — water, sanctified
• Hebrew: מים קדושים (máyim kdoyshim) — water, sanctified
• Hindi: पवित्र जल (pavitra jal) — water, sanctified
• Hungarian: szenteltvíz — water, sanctified
• Icelandic: vígt vatn — water, sanctified
• Indonesian: air suci — water, sanctified
• Irish: uisce coisricthe — water, sanctified
• Irish: uisce coisreacain — water, sanctified
• Italian: acqua benedetta — water, sanctified
• Italian: acqua santa — water, sanctified
• Japanese: 聖水 (seisui) — water, sanctified
• Korean: 성수 (seongsu) — water, sanctified
• Latin: aqua sancta — water, sanctified
• Latin: aqua lustralis — water, sanctified
• Latvian: svētais ūdens — water, sanctified
• Lithuanian: šventas vanduo — water, sanctified
• Luxembourgish: Wäiwaasser — water, sanctified
• Macedonian: крстена вода (krstena voda) — water, sanctified
• Macedonian: светена вода (svetena voda) — water, sanctified
• Macedonian: света вода (sveta voda) — water, sanctified
• Macedonian: осветена вода (osvetena voda) — water, sanctified
• Macedonian: ајазма (ajazma) — water, sanctified
• Malay: air suci — water, sanctified
• Classical Nahuatl: tlateōchīhualātl — water, sanctified
• Norwegian Bokmål: vievann — water, sanctified
• Old Tupi: 'ykaraíba — water, sanctified
• Persian: آب مقدس — water, sanctified
• Persian: زور (zowr) — water, sanctified
• Polish: woda święcona — water, sanctified
• Portuguese: água benta — water, sanctified
• Romanian: agheasmă — water, sanctified
• Romanian: apă sfințită — water, sanctified
• Russian: свята́я вода́ (svjatája vodá) — water, sanctified
• Scottish Gaelic: uisge-coisrigte — water, sanctified
• Serbo-Croatian: света вода — water, sanctified
• Serbo-Croatian: света водица — water, sanctified
• Serbo-Croatian: sveta voda — water, sanctified
• Serbo-Croatian: sveta vodica — water, sanctified
• Slovak: svätená voda — water, sanctified
• Slovene: sveto vodo — water, sanctified
• Southern Altai: агару суу (agaru suu) — water, sanctified
• Spanish: agua bendita — water, sanctified
• Swahili: maji matakatifu — water, sanctified
• Swedish: vigvatten — water, sanctified
• Tagalog: agwa-bendita — water, sanctified
• Thai: น้ํามนตร์ (náam-mon) — water, sanctified
• Turkish: kutsal su — water, sanctified
• Ukrainian: агіа́сма (ahiásma) — water, sanctified
• Ukrainian: свячена вода (svjačena voda) — water, sanctified
• Ukrainian: свята вода (svjata voda) — water, sanctified
• Vietnamese: nước thánh — water, sanctified
• Welsh: dŵr swyn — water, sanctified