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salt water

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any water containing dissolved salt; brine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Translations

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: soutwater — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Southern Altai: тусту суу (tustu suu) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Arabic: مَاء مِلْح (māʔ milḥ) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Basque: ur gazi — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Bhojpuri: खारा पानी (khārā pānī) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Bhojpuri: खार पानी (khār pānī) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Catalan: aigua salada — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Catalan: salmorra (brine) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鹽水 /盐水 (yánshuǐ) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鹹水 /咸水 (xiánshuǐ) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Cornish: hyli — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Danish: saltvand — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Dutch: zout water — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Esperanto: salakvo — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Finnish: suolavesi — any water containing dissolved salt
  • French: eau salée — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Galician: auga salgada — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Galician: salsa — any water containing dissolved salt
  • German: Salzwasser — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Greek: αλατόνερο (alatónero) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Greek: αλμυρό νερό (almyró neró) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Mbya Guarani: ye'ẽ — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Hindi: खारा पानी (khārā pānī) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Hindi: खारा जल (khārā jal) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Hungarian: sós víz — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Hunsrik: Salswasser — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Ingrian: soolavesi — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Japanese: 塩水 (shiomizu) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Korean: 소금물 (sogeummul) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Latvian: sālsūdens — any water containing dissolved salt
  • : ᦓᧄᧉᦵᦂᦲ (nam2k̇oe) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Luxembourgish: Salzwaasser — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Norwegian Bokmål: saltvann — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Norwegian Bokmål: saltvatn — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: saltvatn — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Old Norse: sær — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Old Norse: sjór — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Persian: آب شور (āb-e šūr) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Plautdietsch: Soltwota — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Portuguese: água salgada — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Rohingya: nunfaní — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Russian: солёная вода́ (soljónaja vodá) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Swedish: saltvatten — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Tagalog: tubig alat — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Lower Tanana: notu' — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Tibetan: ཚྭ་ཆུ (tshwa chu) — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Turkish: tuzlu su — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Unami: shëwanpi — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Vietnamese: nước mặn — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Welsh: heli — any water containing dissolved salt
  • Yiddish: זאַלצנוואַסער (zaltsnvaser) — any water containing dissolved salt