water vapor

English

Alternative forms

• water vapour

Noun

water vapor (countable and uncountable, plural water vapors)

1. Water in a gaseous state, especially when diffused in the atmosphere.

   Synonym: aqueous vapor

2. Steam.

Translations

water in a gaseous state

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水氣／水气 (zh) (shuǐqì)

• Czech: vodní pára (cs) f
• Danish: vanddamp (da) c
• Dutch: waterdamp (nl) m
• Esperanto: akvovaporo
• Finnish: vesihöyry (fi)
• French: vapeur (fr) f, vapeur d’eau (fr) f
• Galician: vapor de auga (gl) m
• German: Wasserdampf (de) m
• Hungarian: vízgőz (hu), vízpára (hu)
• Icelandic: loftraki m, vatnsgufa f, eimur (is) m
• Indonesian: uap air (id)
• Italian: vapore acqueo (it) m
• Japanese: 水蒸気 (ja) (すいじょうき, suijōki)
• Javanese: kukus (jv), uwab (jv)
• Korean: 수증기(水蒸氣) (ko) (sujeunggi)
• Latvian: ūdens tvaiks m
• Malay: wap air (ms)
• Maori: wairehu
• Polish: para wodna (pl) f
• Portuguese: vapor de água m
• Romanian: abur (ro) m, vapori de apă m pl
• Russian: водяно́й пар (ru) m (vodjanój par)
• Sundanese: saab
• Swedish: vattenånga (sv) c
• Turkish: su buharı (tr)
• Vietnamese: hơi nước

steam

• Finnish: vesihöyry (fi)
• French: vapeur (fr) f, vapeur d’eau (fr) f
• German: Dampf (de) m
• Italian: vapore (it) m
• Japanese: 蒸気 (ja) (じょうき, jōki)
• Javanese: kukus (jv), uwab (jv)
• Latvian: ūdens tvaiks m
• Polish: para (pl)
• Romanian: abur (ro) m, vapori (ro) m pl
• Russian: водяно́й пар (ru) m (vodjanój par), пар (ru) m (par)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} waterdamp (nl) m
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} uap air (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} vapor de aqua
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} abur (ro) m, ^{(please verify)} vapori de apă m pl

Further reading

• water vapor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia