Etymology
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From Middle English water course; equivalent to water + course.
watercourse (plural watercourses)
- Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.
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Translations
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channel through which water flows
- Bulgarian: течение (bg) n (tečenie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 水道 (zh) (shuǐdào), 河道 (zh) (hédào) (river course), 水路 (zh) (shuǐlù)
- Danish: løb (da) n
- Dutch: waterloop (nl) m, loop (nl) m
- Finnish: uoma (fi)
- French: cours d’eau (fr) m, cours (fr) m
- Galician: canle (gl) f
- Georgian: წყალსადინარი (c̣q̇alsadinari), წყალსადენი არხი (c̣q̇alsadeni arxi)
- German: Wasserlauf (de) m, Flußlauf (de) m, Lauf (de) m
- Hungarian: (riverbed) folyómeder (hu), (the stream itself) folyás (hu), vízfolyás (hu), folyóvíz (hu)
- Italian: corso d'acqua m, corso (it)
- Japanese: 水路 (ja) (すいろ, suiro)
- Korean: 수로 (ko) (suro)
- Luxembourgish: Waasserlaf m
- Macedonian: тек m (tek), во́дотек m (vódotek), те́чење n (téčenje)
- Malayalam: ചാൽ (ml) (cāl)
- Manx: stroo m
- Maori: koawa
- Middle English: cours
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vannløp n, løp (no) n
- Polish: koryto (pl) n, bieg (pl) m
- Portuguese: igarapé (pt) m, curso de água m, curso d'água m, curso (pt) m
- Russian: ру́сло (ru) n (rúslo)
- Spanish: curso (es), corriente de agua f
- Swedish: vattendrag (sv)
- Thai: คลอง (th) (klɔɔng)
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