waterfall

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See waterfall.

From Middle English waterfal, waterfalle, from Old English wæterġefeall (“waterfall”), equivalent to water + fall. Cognate with West Frisian wetterfal (“waterfall”), Dutch waterval (“waterfall”), German Wasserfall (“waterfall”), Swedish vattenfall (“waterfall”).

305 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abenaki: panjahlôk — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Afrikaans: waterval — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Dupaningan Agta: tapaw — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Ahtna: naghilen — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Ainu: ソ (so) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Albanian: ujëvarë — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Albanian: skuranë — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Albanian: lëvare — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Amharic: ፏፏቴ (fwafwate) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Amis: cascas — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Western Apache: túnálį́į́’ — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Arabic: شَلَّال (šallāl) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Arabic: شلّال (šallāl) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Arabic: شَلَّال (šallāl) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Aragonese: salto d'augua — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Armenian: ջրվեժ (ǰrvež) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Asi: busáy — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Asturian: catarata — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Asturian: saltu d'agua — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Asturian: saltadoriu — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Asturian: pimplón — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Asturian: tabayón — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Avar: чвахи (čwaxi) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Azerbaijani: şəlalə — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• West Coast Bajau: boe' pansur — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Bashkir: шарлауыҡ (şarlawıq) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Basque: ur-jauzi — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Belarusian: вадаспа́д (vadaspád) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Bengali: ঝরনা (jhorna) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Bengali: জলপ্রপাত (jolopropat) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Bhojpuri: झरना (jharənā) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Bihari: झरना — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Central Bikol: busay — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Eastern Bontoc: oto — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Breton: lamm-dour — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Brunei Bisaya: wasai — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Bulgarian: водопа́д (vodopád) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Burmese: ရေတံခွန် (retamhkwan) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Catalan: cascada — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Cebuano: busay — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Chechen: чухчари (čuxčari) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Cherokee: ᎠᎹᏍᎧᎦᎯ (amaskagahi) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Chichewa: dziwe — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Chinese Cantonese: 瀑布 (buk6 bou3) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Eastern Min Chinese: 瀑布 (bŭk-buó) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Hakka Chinese: 瀑布 (phau-pu) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Chinese: 瀑布 (zh-min-nan) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Chinese Mandarin: 瀑布 (pùbù) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Wu Chinese: 瀑布 (8boq-pu; 6bau-pu) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Chinook Jargon: tumwata — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Chuvash: шарлак (šarlak) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• West Circassian: псыкъефэх (psəqefɛx) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Cornish: dowrlam — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Czech: vodopád — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Danish: vandfald — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Dusun: wasai (Central Dusun, Tambunan Dusun) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Dutch: waterval — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Erzya: ведьпрамо (veďpramo) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Esperanto: akvofalo — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Esperanto: kaskado — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Estonian: kosk — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Estonian: juga — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Faroese: fossur — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Fijian: savu — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Finnish: vesiputous — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• French: cascade — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• French: chute d'eau — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• West-Frisian: wetterfal — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Galician: fervenza f cadoiro m cachoeira — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Galician: freixa — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Galician: seimeira — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Galician: cenza — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Georgian: ჩანჩქერი (čančkeri) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Georgian: წყალვარდნილი (c̣q̇alvardnili) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• German: Wasserfall — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• German: Katarakt — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Greek: καταρράκτης (katarráktis) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Ancient Greek: καταρράκτης (katarrháktēs) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Gujarati: ધોધ (dhodh) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Haitian Creole: kaskad — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Hawaiian: wailele — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Hebrew: מַפַּל מַיִם (mapál máyim) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Hiligaynon: talogan — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Hindi: जलप्रपात (jalaprapāt) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Hindi: झरना (jharnā) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Hungarian: vízesés — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Hungarian: zuhatag — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Icelandic: foss — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Ido: aquofalo — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Igbo: nsụda mmiri — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Ilocano: dissuor — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Indonesian: air terjun — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Ingrian: koski — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Interlingua: cascada — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Inuktitut: ᖁᖅᓗᕐᓂᖅ (qoqlorniq) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Iranun: aig a tibpu' — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Irish: eas — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Italian: cascata — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Italian: rapida — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Japanese: 滝 (taki) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Japanese: 瀑布 (bakufu) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Javanese: ꦒꦿꦺꦴꦗꦺꦴꦒꦤ꧀ (grojogan) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Coastal Kadazan: vasai — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kalasha: uč̣hár — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Lubuagan Kalinga: teub — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Southern Kalinga: pakungupung — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Southern Kalinga: poy-asan — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kanakanabu: caacan — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kannada: ಜಲಪಾತ (jalapāta) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kannada: ಧಬಧಬೆ (dhabadhabe) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kannada: ಅಬ್ಬಿ (abbi) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kannada: ಜೋಗು (jōgu) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kannada: ನೀರಿನ ಬೀಳು (nīrina bīḷu) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kapampangan: tulari — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Karachay-Balkar: чучхур (çuçxur) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kazakh: құлама (qūlama) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kazakh: сарқырама (sarqyrama) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Khmer: ទឹកធ្លាក់ (tɨk thlĕək) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Khowar: غوݯھار (ġoc̣hár) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kimaragang: vasoi — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kinaray-a: tarogan — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Korean: 폭포 (pokpo) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kumyk: шаршар (şarşar) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Central Kurdish: تاڤگە (tavge) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Northern Kurdish: gilale — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Northern Kurdish: sûlav — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kyrgyz: шаркыратма (şarkıratma) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Kyrgyz: шаркырама (şarkırama) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Lao: ນ້ໍາຕົກຕາດ (nam tok tāt) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Lao: ນ້ໍາຕົກ (nam tok) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Lao: ຕົກຕາດ (tok tāt) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Lao: ນ້ໍາຕາດ (nam tāt) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Lao: ນ້ໍາໂຕນຕາດ (nam tōn tāt) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Lao: ນ້ໍາໂຕນຜາ (nam tōn phā) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Lao: ໂຕນຕາດ (tōn tāt) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Latin: cataracta — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Latin: aquae dēiectus — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Latin: aqua dēsiliēns — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Latvian: ūdenskritums — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Limburgish: waterval — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Lithuanian: krioklys — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Lotud: wasai — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Lower Tanana: noghilenh — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Luxembourgish: Waasserfall — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Macedonian: водопад (vodopad) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Malagasy: riana — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Malagasy: rian-drano — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Malay: air terjun — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Malay: air memancur — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Brunei Malay: wasai — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Brunei Malay: aing terajun — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Malayalam: വെള്ളച്ചാട്ടം (veḷḷaccāṭṭaṁ) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Maltese: kaskata — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Manchu: ᡨᡠᡵᠠᡴᡡ (turakū) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Manx: eas — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Māori: hīrere — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Māori: hohō — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Māori: tāheke — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Māori: wairere — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Mapudungun: trayken — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Marathi: धबधबा (dhabadhbā) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Eastern Mari: вӱдшуҥгалтыш (vüdšuŋgaltyš) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Mauritian Creole: kaskad — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Minangkabau: sarasah — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Mingrelian: წყარგელაფუ (c̣q̇argelapu) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Mon: ဍာ်ဆၚ် — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Mongolian: хүрхрээ (xürxree) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Tagal Murut: bosoi — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Timugon Murut: bosoi — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Navajo: hadahiilį́ — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Nepali: झरना (jharanā) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Newar: झ्वाला (jhwālā) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Norwegian Bokmål: foss — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Norwegian Bokmål: fossefall — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Norwegian Bokmål: vannfall — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Norwegian Bokmål: vassfall — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Norwegian Nynorsk: foss — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fossefall — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vassfall — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Occitan: cascada — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Occitan: chorrèra — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Church Slavic: хлѧбь (xlębĭ) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Old English: wæterġefeall — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Old Norse: fors — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Oromo: finchaa — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Ossetian: ӕхсӕрдзӕн (æxsærʒæn) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Pacoh: achúh — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Pashto: آبشار (ābšār) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Pashto: زاوه (zāwa) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Pashto: بربړوک (barbaṛuk) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Pashto: ګړونګه (gaṛunga) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Iranian Persian: آبْشار (âbšâr) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Pitjantjatjara: waḻa — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Plautdietsch: Wotafaul — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Polish: wodospad — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Portuguese: cachoeira — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Portuguese: queda-d'água — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Portuguese: cascata — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Portuguese: salto — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Portuguese: catarata — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Punjabi: ਝਰਨਾ (jharnā) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Punjabi: چھمبر (chmbr) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Quechua: phaqcha — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Quechua: pagca — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Quechua: pagza — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Romanian: cascadă — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Romanian: cădere de apă — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Rungus: vosoi — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Russian: водопа́д (vodopád) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Skolt-Sami: kuõškk — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Sanskrit: जलपात (jalapāta) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Sanskrit: जलप्रपात (jalaprapāta) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Santali: ᱡᱷᱟᱨᱱᱟ (jharna) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Sardinian: ciurràrgiu — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Scots: watterfaw — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Scottish Gaelic: linne — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Scottish Gaelic: eas — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Serbo-Croatian: во̏допа̄д — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Serbo-Croatian: сла̑п — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Serbo-Croatian: бу̑к — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Serbo-Croatian: vȍdopād — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Serbo-Croatian: slȃp — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Serbo-Croatian: bȗk — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Shona: mapopoma — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Sinhalese: දිය ඇල්ල (diya ælla) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Slovak: vodopád — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Slovene: slap — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Somali: biyo-dhac — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Upper Sorbian: wodopad — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Spanish: catarata — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Spanish: cascada — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Spanish: caída de agua — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Sundanese: ᮎᮥᮛᮥᮌ᮪ (curug) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Sundanese: curug — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Swahili: maanguko — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Swedish: vattenfall — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Tagalog: talon — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Tajik: обшор (obšor) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Tajik: шаршара (šaršara) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Tajik: шалола (šalola) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Tamil: அருவி (aruvi) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Tamil: நீர்வீழ்ச்சி (nīrvīḻcci) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Tarifit: ašaršar — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Tatar: шарлавык (şarlawıq) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Telugu: జలపాతము (jalapātamu) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Thai: น้ําตก (náam-dtòk) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Tibetan: བབས་ཆུ (babs chu) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Tulu: ಜಲಪಾತ (jalapāta) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Turkish: şelale — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Turkish: çavlan — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Turkish: kaskat — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Turkish: çağlayan — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Turkmen: şaglawuk — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Ukrainian: водоспа́д (vodospád) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Unami: sukpehëlak — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Urdu: آبْشار (ābśār) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Uyghur: شارقىراتما (sharqiratma) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Uzbek: shalola — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Uzbek: sharshara — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Vietnamese: thác nước — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Vietnamese: thác — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Volapük: vatafal — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Võro: viisadang — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Walloon: ertcheute d' aiwe — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Waray-Waray: tubighóg — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Welsh: rhaeadr — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Welsh: pistyll — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Welsh: sgwd — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Xhosa: ingxangxasi — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Yakut: күрүлгэн (kürülgen) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Yiddish: וואַסערפֿאַל (vaserfal) — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Yoruba: isosileomi — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Zhuang: raemxgienghdat — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Zulu: impophoma — flow of water over the edge of a cliff
• Arabic: شَلَّال (šallāl) — waterfall-like outpouring
• Chinese Mandarin: 瀑布 (pùbù) — waterfall-like outpouring
• Czech: vodopád — waterfall-like outpouring
• Dutch: waterval — waterfall-like outpouring
• Finnish: hyöky — waterfall-like outpouring
• German: Wasserfall — waterfall-like outpouring
• German: Kaskade — waterfall-like outpouring
• Hebrew: מפל (mapál) — waterfall-like outpouring
• Hindi: झरना (jharnā) — waterfall-like outpouring
• Hungarian: zuhatag — waterfall-like outpouring
• Italian: cascata — waterfall-like outpouring
• Japanese: 滝 (taki) — waterfall-like outpouring
• Kannada: ಅಬ್ಬಿ (abbi) — waterfall-like outpouring
• Macedonian: водопад (vodopad) — waterfall-like outpouring
• Norwegian: foss — waterfall-like outpouring
• Persian: آبشار (âbšâr) — waterfall-like outpouring
• Persian: فوران (favarân) — waterfall-like outpouring
• Polish: wodospad — waterfall-like outpouring
• Portuguese: cascata — waterfall-like outpouring
• Romanian: cascadă — waterfall-like outpouring
• Russian: водопа́д (vodopád) — waterfall-like outpouring
• Russian: каска́д (kaskád) — waterfall-like outpouring
• Serbo-Croatian: во̏допа̄д — waterfall-like outpouring
• Serbo-Croatian: vȍdopād — waterfall-like outpouring
• Spanish: cascada — waterfall-like outpouring
• Swedish: vattenfall — waterfall-like outpouring
• Swedish: fors — waterfall-like outpouring
• Welsh: rhaeadr — waterfall-like outpouring
• Welsh: pistyll — waterfall-like outpouring
• Welsh: sgwd — waterfall-like outpouring
• Tamil: தூக்கி குடி (tūkki kuṭi) — to drink by pouring a liquid from a height