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Etymology
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From river + bed. Compare Dutch rivierbedding (“riverbed”), German Flussbett (“riverbed”), Swedish flodbädd (“riverbed”).
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riverbed (plural riverbeds)
- (hydrology) The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
2021 September 8, “Network News: West Coast Main Line viaducts reinforced by underwater concrete”, in RAIL, number 939, page 10:Detailed laser surveys carried out by Network Rail revealed that fast-flowing water on the River Eden has caused parts of the riverbed to wash away, posing a risk to the viaduct foundations.
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a river bottom
- Albanian: amull (sq)
- Azerbaijani: məcra (az)
- Belarusian: рэ́чышча n (réčyšča)
- Bulgarian: кори́то (bg) n (koríto)
- Catalan: buc (ca) m, llit (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 河床 (zh) (héchuáng), 河槽 (zh) (hécáo)
- Chuvash: ҫул (śul), юхлӑх (juhlăh), варак (varak)
- Classical Nahuatl: ānāntli
- Czech: řečiště (cs) n
- Dutch: rivierbedding (nl) f, rivierbed (nl) n
- French: lit de rivière m
- Galician: madre (gl) f, baltrón m, andurbio m
- German: Flussbett (de) n
- Hungarian: folyómeder (hu)
- Italian: alveo (it), letto (it)
- Japanese: 河床 (かしょう, kashō), 川底 (ja) (かわぞこ, kawazoko)
- Kazakh: арна (arna)
- Komi-Permyak: ӧр (ör)
- Komi-Zyrian: кырас (kyras), ковтыс (kovtys), ю ворга (ju vorga), сёртас (śortas)
- Korean: 하상(河床) (ko) (hasang)
- Macedonian: корито n (korito)
- Manchu: ᡤᠣᠯᠣ (golo)
- Maori: whaiawa, kūkūpango, whakatakere, takere
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: вӱдкорно (vüdkorno)
- Western Mari: вӹд корны (vÿd korny)
- Northern Mansi: (please verify) я̄с (â̄s)
- Occitan: mair (oc) f
- Old Ruthenian: рѣчище n (rěčišče)
- Polish: koryto (pl) n
- Portuguese: leito (pt) m
- Romanian: albie (ro)
- Russian: ру́сло (ru) n (rúslo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̀рито n
- Latin: kòrito (sh) n
- Slovak: koryto (sk) n
- Slovene: koríto (sl) n
- Spanish: cauce (es), lecho (es)
- Swedish: flodbädd c
- Tatar: үзән (tt) (üzän), елга юлы (yelga yulı)
- Udmurt: ӧр (ör)
- Ukrainian: русло́ n (rusló), рі́чище n (ríčyšče), кори́то (uk) n (korýto)
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