riverbank

See also: Riverbank and river bank

English

Etymology

From river +‎ bank.

Noun

riverbank (plural riverbanks)

1. A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.
   • 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 8, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:

     "The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to the road again," remarked the Lion.

Translations

sloped side of a river

• Albanian: mat (sq)
• Armenian: գետափ (hy) (getapʻ)
• Bulgarian: речен бряг m (rečen brjag)
• Catalan: riba (ca) f, ribera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 江畔 (zh) (jiāngpàn)

• Dutch: oever (nl)
• Egyptian: (jdb)
• Esperanto: riverbordo
• Finnish: joenpenkka (fi)
• French: rive (fr) f, berge (fr) f
• Galician: regada f, ribeira (gl) f
• German: Ufer (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὄχθη f (ókhthē)

• Hebrew: גדות (gadoth)
• Hungarian: folyópart (hu)
• Ido: rivo (io)
• Ilocano: igid
• Korean: 강변 (ko) (gangbyeon)
• Latin: rīpa f
• Lubuagan Kalinga: teɏanteg
• Maori: tahataha, tarawāhi, paretai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: elvebredd m or f

  Nynorsk: elvebredd f, elvebreidd f, elvebreidde f

• Old Korean: 汀理
• Ottoman Turkish: سیف (sif)
• Plautdietsch: Eewa n
• Spanish: orilla (es) f, benque (es) m (Honduras)
• Swedish: flodbank c
• Tagalog: pampang
• Tocharian B: manarko
• Tuwali Ifugao: malona
• Ukrainian: берег річки m (bereh ričky)

See also

• creekside
• riverside

 

Anagrams

• Rivenbark