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Homework help! Foreign language words for water please ladies!

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Piffleoffagus · 03/07/2004 13:11

My son has water aid poster to do and needs LOTs of foreign/alternative words for water.
I know the basics like aqua, agua etc
Any cool ones esp Asian/Eastern or African would be ace...
Thanks in advance hallowed and knowledgeable ones ones
Ps gods piss is not allowed...

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lou33 · 03/07/2004 13:14

Vatten, bevattna, vattna are all swedish for water.

marialuisa · 03/07/2004 13:21

dwr (circumflex over the w) is the Welsh.

aigua in Catalan

Sorry, not very exotic!

Hulababy · 03/07/2004 13:22

Swahili for water is MAJI

drinking water is "maji ya kunywa"

lou33 · 03/07/2004 13:22

danish = vand

Finnish = vesi

Hungarian =felhígított részvénytõke, ásványvíz, vízállás, víz

Japanese = mizu, gogyou

Norwegian = vann

Swahili = maji

mummytosteven · 03/07/2004 13:24

mayim is Hebrew for water - fascinatingly similar to the swahili word!

beetroot · 03/07/2004 13:25

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Hulababy · 03/07/2004 13:27

Go here to see the chinese word for water - I can't copy it because of the characters involved!

beetroot · 03/07/2004 13:27

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CookieMonster · 03/07/2004 13:28

russian = voda

Toothache · 03/07/2004 13:29

I only know the French and German ones.

L'eau
Wasser (I think!!)

Sorry... a bit boring.

guddy · 03/07/2004 13:29

pani( in hindi)

Piffleoffagus · 03/07/2004 13:30

goddesses all of you
thank you!!!

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DelGirl · 03/07/2004 13:31

Italy is just Agua

DelGirl · 03/07/2004 13:36

sorry, I am a dummy, it's acqua. must be the cheap bottles I pick up!

Poppy1978 · 03/07/2004 13:38

gui (Bambara)
zou (Bobo)
madiba (Dualla)
mvura (Shona)
biyo (Somali)
amanzi (Zulu)
vtan (Iceland)
uisge (Irish Gaelic)
aiga (Occitan)
vanduo (Lithuanian)
vann (Norwegian)
voda (Russian)
wakka (Ainu)
jal (Bengali)
yei (Burmese)
shouei (Chinese)
pani (Gujarati)
paani (Hindi)
neeru (Kannada)
thuk (Khmer)
rano (Malagasy)
wai (Maori)
taneer (Tamil)
tubig (Tagalog)
amane (Berber)
maim (Hebrew)
maille (Lebanese)
tuna (Carib)
dlo (Haitian Creole)
yaku (Quechua)
vatten (Swedish)
mul (Korean)
nusc (Vietnamese)
agua (Spanish)
viz (Hungarian)
abba (Sardinian)
uji (Albanian)
djour (Armenian)
dour (Breton)
aigua (Catalan)
acqua (Corsican)
vand (Danish)
het water (Dutch)
vesi (Finnish)
aghe (Fuilan)
nero (Greek)

Hope that helps!!

LunarSea · 03/07/2004 13:43

água in Portuguese

LunarSea · 03/07/2004 13:46

Loads more exotic ones are listed here - click on each region to get the relevant words.

DelGirl · 03/07/2004 14:28

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bran · 03/07/2004 14:28

air (old spelling) or ayer in Malay

Bron · 03/07/2004 14:35

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Bron · 03/07/2004 14:39

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geekgrrl · 03/07/2004 15:52

Wasser in German - sorry, about as unexotic as you can get.

suedonim · 03/07/2004 17:44

In bahasa Indonesia, 'air' is water, 'aqua' is bottled water.

Chandra · 03/07/2004 17:59

Aigo (mallorcan)

Piffleoffagus · 03/07/2004 18:07

He is going to have mighty tired little fingers later on
Cheers you lot, much appreciated, I would have searched online myself, but for some reason the parental controls are being dopey and I cannot access multiples of webpages and as dh is the sys admin...
Arrghhh at least I cna get here and Ebay though oooh and the Boden sale

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