sweet water
sweet water noun: fresh water.
Noun
sweet water (countable and uncountable, plural sweet waters)
sweet water meaning in Kannada
sweet water in Kannada
- ಸವಿನೀರ್, ಸವಿನೀರು, ಸೀನೀರು, ಸಿಹಿನೀರು
Forms of sweet water
| plural | sweet waters |
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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.
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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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