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sweet water

sweet water noun: fresh water.

Noun

sweet water (countable and uncountable, plural sweet waters)

  1. (uncommon) Fresh water.

sweet water meaning in Kannada

sweet water in Kannada

ಸವಿನೀರ್, ಸವಿನೀರು, ಸೀನೀರು, ಸಿಹಿನೀರು

Forms of sweet water

pluralsweet waters

Origin of sweet water

The concept of fresh water being sweet is widespread among multiple languages: Terms * PIE: ** Latin aqua dulcis ** Romance: *** Galician auga doce *** Esperanto dolĉakvo *** French eau douce *** Italian acqua dolce *** Norman ieau douoche *** Occitan aiga doça *** Portuguese água doce *** Romanian apă dulce *** Spanish agua dulce ** Ancient Greek γλυκύ ὕδωρ (glukú húdōr), Greek γλυκό νερό (glykó neró) ** Germanic: *** German Süßwasser *** Dutch zoet water *** Swedish sötvatten ** Latvian saldūdens ** Slavic: *** Czech sladká voda *** Macedonian слатка вода (slatka voda) *** Polish słodka woda *** Serbo-Croatian слатка вода *** Slovene sladka voda ** Persian آبِ شیرین ** Tajik оби ширин (ob-i širin) ** Indo-Aryan: *** Hindi मीठा पानी (mīṭhā pānī) *** Bengali মিঠা পানি (miṭha pani) *** Marathi गोड पाणी (goḍ pāṇī) *** Gujarati મીઠું પાણી (mīṭhũ pāṇī) * non PIE: ** Hungarian édesvíz ** Finnish makea vesi ** Turkish tatlı su ** Swahili maji matamu ** Malagasy ranomamy ** Vietnamese nước ngọt

Questions about sweet water

What does sweet water mean?
Sweet water means fresh water.
What is sweet water in Kannada?
Sweet water in Kannada is ಸವಿನೀರ್, ಸವಿನೀರು, ಸೀನೀರು. See Sweet water meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is sweet water?
Sweet water is a noun.
What is the plural of sweet water?
The plural of sweet water is sweet waters.

Words near sweet water in the dictionary

  1. sweet thorns
  2. sweet tooth
  3. sweet tooths
  4. sweet upon
  5. sweet vernal grass
  6. sweet water
  7. sweet waters
  8. sweet whiskey
  9. sweet william
  10. sweet williams
  11. sweet woodruff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweet water (page history and authors); sweet water (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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