Taf

It only remains to notice briefly the branch from Whitland to Cardigan, which for a few miles pursues its tortuous and picturesque course along the valley of the Taf, thence rising by very severe gradients to Crymmych Arms, near to which station is a striking horse-shoe curve.

1939 Septenber, T. R. Perkins, “The G.W.R in West Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:

Rhydowen, the next station, 10¼ miles from Whitland, has a goods loop and only a wooden building. The Taf is crossed beyond the station, and the railway passes from Carmarthenshire into Pembrokeshire, but the river is recrossed before Llanfyrnach is reached.

1952 July, J. F. Burrell, “The Cardigan Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 483:

A river in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, West Wales, which flows into Carmarthen Bay.


Ahr

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia#English

a river, roughly along the border of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany, flowing into the Rhine at Sinzig.


Selenga

From this range another branches off at the source of the river Vitima, near 113° E. long., which runs to the south-west, separating the rivers which fall into the Amur from those which run westward to the Selenga.

The western extremity of this region, namely the territory lying to the west of the Selenga, and between the frontier and the southern end of Baikal, presents the appearance of a table-land, with a height of about 20oo feet,

1874, Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Geographical Magazine, page 111:

This migration coincides with summer floods in the Selenga. With declining water temperature the migration stops. Sturgeons have often been observed to overwinter in deep pools of the Selenga and its tributaries.

1999, T. Petr, Fish and Fisheries at Higher Altitudes: Asia, Food & Agriculture Org., →ISBN, page 195:

The chemicals abandoned when the paper mill closed are seeping into the ground water and will eventually contaminate the lake, according to a study by the Irkutsk region’s Ministry of Natural Resources. Plans by Mongolia to dam the Selenga River, which flows into the lake, are also a Russian concern.

2017 March 13, Neil MacFarquhar, “A Russian Lake’s Future Hangs on Tourists and Toilets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-03-14, Europe:

A river in Mongolia and Russia, flows into Baikal Lake.


Cibin

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cibin.


Pocatalico

A tributary of the Kanawha River, in west-central West Virginia.


Rhymney

A river, the Rhymney River in Caerphilly borough county borough, which has its source near the town and which flows through the Rhymney Valley to the Bristol Channel at Cardiff.


Irt

A river in Cumbria, England, which flows from Wast Water, and into the Irish Sea.


Westbourne

From Old English west + burna (“bourne”).

The river carried in the pipe at Sloane Square is the Westbourne, and the pipe is said to shake in a rainstorm. Behind one of the innocent-looking doors on the platform at Sloane Square is a horizontal metal grille, beneath which is a pump, working away in the seething tributaries of the Westbourne.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 31:

A river, the River Westbourne in London, England, which is now placed underground.


Waver

A river in northern Cumbria, England, which flows into the Solway Firth.


Ebbw

A river in South Wales which runs into the Severn Estuary at the same place as the River Usk.


Mawddach

A river with a large estuary in Gwynedd, Wales.


Aln

A river in Northumberland, England, which flows into the North Sea.


Earn

From Scottish Gaelic Èireann, genitive singular of Èirinn (“Ireland”), closely related to the river name Erne.

Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross#English

A river in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, which flows into the tidal River Tay.


Ebbsfleet

A short river, the Ebbsfleet River in the same area of Kent, which flows into the Thames.


Spean

A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into the River Lochy.


Orchy

Possibly from Proto-Brythonic *argoɨd (“surrounding forest”).

der

A river in Argyll and Bute council area, in the Highlands of Scotland, which flows from Loch Tulla to Loch Awe.


Long Branch

The name of a number of watercourses in the United States of America.

A beachside city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.

Washington County
Washington County#English

A borough of Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.

unincorporated community
unincorporated community

An unincorporated community in Panola County, Texas, United States.

An unincorporated community in Caroline County, Virginia, United States.

An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.


Millstone

An unincorporated community in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.

The Millstone River, a tributary of the Raritan River in New Jersey.


Whakatane

A river in the Bay of Plenty region, New Zealand, which flows into the Bay of Plenty at Whakatane; in full, Whakatane River.


Thaw

A river in South Wales which flows into the Bristol Channel at Aberthaw.


Eye Water

One of the biggest tasks in restoring the main line was the replacement, by temporary structures, of the seven bridges over the Eye Water, which pursues a meandering course, beside the railway, for about five miles between Grantshouse and Reston.

1949 January and February, “Notes and News: Replacement of Bridges”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:

Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders#English

A river in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, which runs into the North Sea at Eyemouth.


Maipo River

A significant river in Chile flowing from the Andes Mountains through San José de Maipo and Santiago onto the Pacific Ocean at San Antonio.


Dun

* As a Scottish surname, from the placename Dun, Angus, itself probably from Scottish Gaelic dùn (“fortress”).
* As an English surname, variant of Dunn.
* As a Dutch surname, from the adjective dun (“thin”).
* As a Chinese surname, Mandarin form of surname 頓 /顿 meaning "pause" or 敦 meaning "sincere."

A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which flows into the River Kennet.

A river in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, which flows into the River Test.

An alternative name for the River Don in Yorkshire, England.

Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland#English

A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, alternatively named the Glendun River.


Rea Brook

A minor river in Shropshire, England, which flows from near the Welsh border to join the River Severn at Shrewsbury.


Afan

Neath Port Talbot
Neath Port Talbot#English

A river in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales, which flows into Swansea Bay at Aberavon.


Dearne

From Middle English Dern, Dyrne, Dirne, Dirna, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English dierne (“hidden, concealed”), or of Celtic origin.

A river in South Yorkshire, England, which flows into the River Don.


Suir

From Irish An tSiúir, Abhainn na Siúire.

A river in County Tipperary, County Kilkenny and County Waterford, Ireland, which flows into the Celtic Sea near Waterford.


Wanganui

A major river in the Manawatū-Whanganui region, North Island, New Zealand, which flows into the Tasman Sea at Wanganui. Official name: Whanganui River.

A river in the West Coast region, South Island, New Zealand, which also flows into the Tasman Sea.


Wairoa

A river in the Hawke's Bay region, New Zealand, which flows through the town.

A river in the Auckland region, New Zealand.

A river in the Bay of Plenty region, New Zealand.

A river in the Northland region, New Zealand.

A river in Tasman district, New Zealand.


Takaka

A river in Tasman district, New Zealand which passes through the town.


Rakaia

A major river in Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean.


Hokitika

A river in Westland district, West Coast, New Zealand, which empties into the Tasman Sea at the town; in full, Hokitika River}.


Los Angeles River

Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County#English

A river in Los Angeles County, California, United States.


Loxley

A river in South Yorkshire which is a tributary of the River Don.


Mad River

A number of rivers in the United States, in California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, Vermont and Washington.


Teviot

From Scottish Gaelic abhainn Tìbhiot, probably from the same ultimate source as the river Thames, which see.

A river in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, which joins the Tweed at Kelso.

A river in Otago, New Zealand, which flows into the Clutha River at Roxburgh.


Sebec

A river in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States.

Piscataquis County
Piscataquis County#English


Banwell

A minor river in Somerset, England, which flows into the Bristol Channel.


Lossie

A river in Moray council area, Scotland.


Truckee

The Truckee River, a river in California and Nevada, United States, which flows between two lakes.


Cynon

Rhondda Cynon Taf
Rhondda Cynon Taf#English

A river in the Cynon Valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales, which joins the River Taff at Abercynon.


Motaba

Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo#English

A river in Likouala department, Republic of the Congo, tributary of the Ubangi.


Gosford

From Old English gōs (“goose”) + ford (“ford”).


Whangpoo

Anglicization of Shanghainese 黃浦 (hhuaan phu).

Firing by Japanese warships upon the Chinese Woosung forts, at the mouth of the Whangpoo River twenty miles below Shanghai, began at 11:30 A.M. today, according to the Japanese Consulate, which charges that guns of the forts opened fire first, bombarding passing Japanese warships.

1932 February 4 [1932 February 3], “Chinese Accused of Firing First.; JAPANESE ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE FORTS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-07, page 1:

Some large vessels that do not wish to berth in the Whangpoo anchor in the roadstead off the entrance to the river and discharge into lighters. The greater number of ocean-going vessels, however, proceed up the Whangpoo to Shanghai.

1940, Commerce Reports, →OCLC, page 230:

Shanghai does not escape the problems besetting delta cities. It lies about 14 mi. (23 km.) I above the mouth of the Whangpoo River (Huang-p'u Chiang), a small tributary of the Yangtze near its estuary. Daily, rising tide water from the Pacific shunts Yangtze River water up the Whangpoo.

1968, “SHANGHAI (SHANG-HAI)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 345, column 1:


Oldfield

en-proper noun

Oldfield (countable and uncountable, plural Oldfields)

Oldfields (plural)
Offield (alternative)

From Old English eald (“old”) + feld (“field”).

Western Australia
Western Australia#English

A river in Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.


Chess

The river name is a back-formation from Chesham, a town at the head of the river.

A river in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, England, which joins the Colne at Rickmansworth.


Touws River

Touws is from a Khoekhoe (Khoi) word for ash.

A town and river in the Western Cape, South Africa.


Wantsum

A minor river in East Kent, England, which flows southwards from the north coast to join the River Stour.


Willimantic

From Eastern Algonquian, likely Mohegan-Pequot or Narragansett, meaning "land of swift-moving waters", referring to the steep drop of the Willimantic River, or "place near the cedar swamp".

I give and bequeath all that tracke of land lying to the westard of Appaguage, and Eastward from Willi mantucke River, […]

1675 February 27, Joshua Uncas, “Will of Joshua Uncas”, in The New England Historical And Genealogical Register, volume XIII, Boston: Samuel G. Drake, published 1859, page 235:


Damodar

Transliteration of Bengali দামোদর (damōdor), Hindi दामोदर (dāmodar), from Sanskrit दामोदर (dāmodara).

translit

A river in the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal.


Ishim

A left tributary of the Irtush River flowing 1,520 miles through Kazakhstan and Russia and passing through Astana, capital of Kazakhstan.


Tobol

A tributary of the Irtysh river in Russia.


Veja

A tributary of the Sacovăț river in Romania.


Lunan Water

A river in Angus council area, Scotland, which flows into Lunan Bay at Lunan.


Ramapo

A river in New York and New Jersey, United States.


Strathmore

Of Scottish origin; from strath (“a wide, flat river valley”) + mōr (“swamp”).

A valley and river therein, in Sutherland, Highland council area, in the far north of Scotland (the valley is spelt Strath More on an Ordnance Survey map).


Mindel

A right tributary of the Danube, Swabia region, Bavaria, southern Germany.


Blue River

A tributary of the Colorado River, Colorado, United States.

The rebels put the imperial garrisons to the sword—fifty thousand headless bodies were floating in the Blue River when Nanking fell.

1977 [1973], Lucien Bodard, translated by Barbara Bray, The French Consul, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 51:


Lambourn

A river in Berkshire, which rises near the village and joins the River Kennet at Newbury.


Ucayali

A river in Peru, a major source of the Amazon.


Madre de Dios

The Madre de Dios River, a river in Bolivia and Peru, a tributary of the Madeira River.


Goukou

A river in the Western Cape, South Africa.


Teise

The line is now well into the Wealden hills. Running along the Teise valley, the slopes of which are covered in hop gardens, it falls at gradients of 1 in 106 and 213 to Goudhurst, 6⅜ miles out, [...].

1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 172:

A river which is a tributary of the River Medway in Kent, England.


Santa Ana

/ˌsæntə ˈænə/

[ˌsænə ˈænə]

A river in southern California, United States.


Machias

From Malecite-Passamaquoddy word for bad little falls, for a location on the Machias River.

A river in Maine, United States; in full, Machias River.


Wolseley

en-proper-noun

Wolseley (countable and uncountable, plural Wolseleys)

Wolseleys (plural)
Wolsley (alternative)
Woolseley (alternative)
Woolsley (alternative)
Woosley (alternative)

From Middle English Ulselei, from Old English Wulfsieslega, from the personal name Wulfsiġe (“wolf victory”) in the genitive case Wulfsiġes + lēah (“wood, clearing”).

A river in north-east Ontario, Canada; in full, Wolseley River.


Goyt

Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester#English

A river in Derbyshire and Greater Manchester, England, which becomes the River Mersey at Stockport.


Bovey

A river in Devon, England, which joins the River Teign.


Carno

A river in Powys, which flows past the village and joins the Severn at Caersws.


Irk

A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Irwell in Manchester city centre.


Amble

A minor river in Cornwall, England, which flows into the River Camel estuary (OS grid ref SW9974).


Van Wie

Van Wies (plural)
Wie (alternative)
Vanwie (alternative)
VanWie (alternative)
vanWie (alternative)
van Wie (alternative)

A creek in New York, United States, a tributary of the Mohawk River; in full, Van Wie Creek.


Alne

A river in Warwickshire, England, which flows into the River Arrow at Alcester.


Kawarau

A river in Otago, New Zealand, which flows from Lake Wakatipu to Lake Dunstan near Cromwell.


Clyst

A river in Devon, England, which flows into the Exe estuary.


Bistrița

From Romanian Bistrița, from Slavic (compare Slovak bystrica (“swift creek”).

One afternoon, while descending the eastern slopes of the Carpathians, following the northern Bistrița River, we came upon a tiny village of three or four houses, where a wedding was being celebrated.

1934 April, Henrietta Allen Holmes, “The Spell of Romania”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume LXV, number 4, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 436:

Its white blocks of limestone suggest the ruins of a citadel guarding the narrow valley of the Bistrița. The landscapes here are of great beauty and the traveller can enjoy the comfort of the chalet near Pietrele Doamnei as well.

Over a pass the road ran down into Moldavia along the course of the Bistrița river.

1990, Georgina Harding, In Another Europe: A Journey to Romania (Hodder & Stoughton), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 90:

Bistrița lies in northern Transylvania on the Bistrița River, in a region of hills covered with orchards.

2013, Lucy Mallows, Transylvania (Bradt Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135:

(with the) A river in Romania; a tributary of the Siret.


Mulan

Mulan (countable and uncountable, plural Mulans)

Mulans (plural)
Mu-lan (alternative)
Mu-Lan (alternative)
Mu Lan (alternative)

From Mandarin 木蘭／木兰 (Mùlán, literally “magnolia”).

THE FOLLOWING TEXT commemorates the reconstruction and expansion of the main temple of a local cult in Putian District, Fujian Province, located on China’s southeast coast. The god, known by the time the inscription was composed in 1138 as the Duke of Manifest Kindness (Xianhui hou), was the proprietary deity of a prominent local kin group, the Fang of Baidu, a small village which lay about three miles east of Putian city in the hills edging the fertile flood plain of the Mulan River. Like many prominent kin groups of the area, the Fang had abandoned their original homes, which had been in the hinterland behind Hangzhou, and settled in Putian in the late 800s, a time of widespread unrest that accompanied the fall of the Tang dynasty (618-907).

2005, “Fang Lüe, "Inscription for the Temple of Auspicious Response"”, in Victor H. Mair, Nancy S. Steinhardt, Paul R. Goldin, editors, Hawaiʻi Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 392:

Any of several places in China:
A river in Fujian, China.


Coly

A minor river, the River Coly, in East Devon, England, which joins the River Axe near Colyford.


Chelmer

The river's name is a back-formation from Chelmsford.

A river in Essex, England, which flows through Chelmsford to the River Blackwater.


Dwyryd

A river in Gwynedd, Wales, which flows into Tremadog Bay.


Big River

A short river in Rhode Island, United States.


San Jacinto

[sæ̃n d͡ʒəˈsɪ̃ɾ̃ə]

From Spanish San Jacinto (literally “Saint Hyacinth”).

bor

A place in the United States:
A river in California.

A place in the United States:
A river in Texas.


Whitewater

The River Whitewater, a tributary in Hampshire, England, which joins the River Blackwater on the border with Berkshire.


Uda

A right tributary of the Selenga in Buryatia, Russia.

A river in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia in the Russian Far East, flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk.


Flinders

Gulf of Carpentaria
Gulf of Carpentaria#English

The Flinders River, a long river in northern Queensland, which flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria.


San Gabriel

A river in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California, United States.


Bahr al Ghazal

From Arabic الغزال بحر, literally "gazelle river".

Arabic الغزال


Lackawaxen

From Lenape : lechauwéksink : "the fork of the road."

A major river in the northeastern United States.


Uck

A river in East Sussex, England, which joins the Sussex Ouse.


Manilla

A river in the same area of New South Wales, which joins the Namoi River.


Coln

A river in Gloucestershire, England, which flows into the River Thames.


Carron Water

A minor river in Kincardineshire, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, which flows into the North Sea at Stonehaven.

Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway#English

A minor river in Dumfriesshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, which joins the River Nith at Carronbridge.


Sausal

From Spanish sauzal (“willow grove”), sauce (“willow”) + -al, from Old Spanish salze, from Latin salix (“willow”) (compare Catalan salze, Italian salice, Romanian salcie), from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- (“willow”).

en:Sausal Creek (Alameda County)
en:Sausal Creek (San Mateo County)

A river in Alameda County, California, United States.

San Mateo County
San Mateo County#English

A river in San Mateo County, California, United States.


Roding

The river's name is from Old English Hroða (a personal name).

A river in Essex and Greater London, England, which flows into Barking Creek before it reaches the Thames near Barking.


Caldew

A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the River Eden at Carlisle.


Kansas River

A river in Kansas, United States, which joins the Missouri River at Kansas City.


Wied

A river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a tributary of the Rhine.


Rio Minho

The longest river in Jamaica; it is 57.7 miles long.


Black River

One of the longest rivers in Jamaica; it is 33.2 miles long.

Specific data on the flow of the Red River near Hanoi was impossible to obtain but last month Le Monde, the Paris newspaper, published a dispatch predicting that the flow of the Black River, a main tributary, would reach 32,500 cubic meters a second at Sontay, about 25 miles northwest of Hanoi (a cubic meter is about 35 cubic feet).

1972 July 14, Seymour M. Hersh, “Dikes in Hanoi Area Represent 2,000‐Year Effort to Tame Rivers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-02-24:

The Black River Watershed is a tributary system of the Red River. Like the Red River, the Black River has its source in China and flows out through Vietnam.

1996, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies: Theme 2, Cultural crisis and the Thai capitalist transformation, →OCLC, page 131:

The Upper Red River veers northwards to China, but we take a sneaky left-hand turn down the Da River (Black River).

2017 July 1, Colin Hinshelwood, “Cruise Vietnam’s scenic and lush Red River”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2017-06-25:

A river in west-central Wisconsin, United States, a tributary of the Mississippi.


Duddon

A river in Cumbria, England, which flows into the Irish Sea.


Wandle

A minor river in Greater London, England, which joins the Thames at Wandsworth.

A short river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Mason River.


Itchen

A river in Hampshire, England, which flows into Southampton Water.

A river in Warwickshire, England, which joins the River Leam.


Leam

A river in England that rises in Northamptonshire, before flowing through Warwickshire and joining the Warwickshire Avon near Warwick.


Blithe

Likely derived from the Old English adjective blīþe (“joyful, merry”).

A river in Staffordshire, England, which joins the River Trent.


Helmsdale

A river, the River Helmsdale in Highland council area, which flows into the North Sea at Helmsdale.


River of Doubt

(sometimes attributive) A river in South America, part of the Amazon watershed, now named the Roosevelt River following exploration of it by a party including Theodore Roosevelt.


Tombigbee

From Choctaw itumbi ikbi (“box maker, coffin maker”).

A river in Alabama, Mississippi, United States, a tributary of the Alabama River.


Lostock

A minor river in Lancashire, England, which joins the Lancashire Yarrow.


De Lesseps

en-proper-noun

De Lesseps (countable and uncountable, plural De Lesseps or De Lessepses)

De Lesseps (plural)
De Lessepses (plural)
Lesseps (alternative)
deLesseps (alternative)
Delesseps (alternative)
DeLesseps (alternative)
de Lesseps (alternative)

De Lesseps River
De Lesseps River#English

A river in Thunder Bay district, Ontario, Canada; in full, De Lesseps River.


Yoro

Yoro (countable and uncountable, plural Yoros)

* (Honduras): Spanish Yoro
* (Japan): Japanese 養老 (“ようろう”) (Yōrō (Yōrō))

gloss

<i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">Yōrō</i> (Yōrō)

A river in Chiba Prefecture, Japan; in full, Yoro River.


Steeping

A river or drainage channel, usually called the Steeping River, in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England; a continuation of the River Lymn.


Lynher

A river in England that flows through east Cornwall, and enters the River Tamar at the Hamoaze, which in turn flows into Plymouth Sound.


Deschutes

From French des chutes (“waterfall”, literally “the falls”).

der

A river in Washington, United States; in full, Deschutes River.

A river in Oregon, United States; in full, Deschutes River.


Gurk

A river in Carinthia, Austria, a tributary of the River Drava.


Nissitissit

A river located in southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts, in the United States.


Tiddy

A minor river in south-east Cornwall, England, which joins the River Lynher.


Spodden

A minor river in England, flowing from Whitworth, Lancashire, to Rochdale, Greater Manchester, where it joins the River Roch.


Struma

A river in Bulgaria, and northern Greece, which flows into the Aegean Sea.


Tillingham

A minor river in East Sussex, England, which joins the River Brede at Rye.


Lagan

A river in County Down and County Antrim, Northern Ireland, which flows through the city of Belfast into Belfast Lough.


Belah

A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the River Eden, and was formerly crossed by the Belah Viaduct.


Proserpine

A river in Queensland, Australia, named for the goddess in 1859.


Llynfi

A river in Bridgend borough county borough, Wales, which joins the River Ogmore at Aberkenfig.

A river, the Afon Llynfi in Powys, Wales, which joins the River Wye at Glasbury (OS grid ref SO13).


Garw

From Welsh garw and Afon Garw (River Garw).

A river in Bridgend borough county borough, Wales, which joins the River Ogmore.


Henares

A river in Spain, tributary of the Jarama, in the village of Horna, in the province of Guadalajara.


Slaney

en-proper noun

Slaney (countable and uncountable, plural Slaneys)

A river in County Wicklow, County Carlow and County Wexford, Ireland, which flows into Wexford Harbour.


Browney

A river in County Durham, a tributary of the River Wear.


Dulais

A river in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales, which joins the River Neath at Aberdulais.

A minor river in the city and county of Swansea, Wales, which joins the River Loughor at Pontarddulais.


Gwili

A river in Carmarthenshire, Wales, which joins the River Tywi at Abergwili.

A river, the Afon Gwili in east Carmarthenshire, which joins the River Loughor at Hendy.


Tywi

A river in Wales with its headwaters in Ceredigion and Powys, before passing through Carmarthenshire and flowing into Carmarthen Bay.


Willamette

From a French adaptation of the name of a Clackamas village on the river. The Clackamas spoke a Wasco-Wishram dialect.

A river in Oregon, United States, a major tributary of the Columbia River.


Moose River

A number of rivers and a town in the United States:

A river in Maine, which passes the town.

Rivers and communities in Canada:
A river in Nova Scotia.

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

Rivers and communities in Canada:
A river in British Columbia.

Rivers and communities in Canada:
A river in northern Ontario.

Rivers and communities in Canada:
A river in Quebec.


Wharfe

A river in North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, England, which joins the Yorkshire River Ouse.


Conestoga

From Susquehannock kanahstó:ke (the name of a settlement, now Conestoga, Pennsylvania). According to Mithun, British colonists based the name on the Mohawk word tekanastoge (“place of the upright pole”). It may also be the anglicized form of Gandastogue, which may have been close to what the Susquehannock called themselves.


Hongkou

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 虹口 (Hóngkǒu, literally “Rainbow Mouth”), a variation of earlier 洪口 (Hóngkǒu, literally “Flood Mouth”).

bor

There were also public mess halls in Shanghai, but they were mostly managed by the people. Under the disguise of "cultural revolution", some inhabitants' service establishments appeared in the districts around Chu's Family Bay. With the help of the old street inhabitants' committee, the one thousand odd households in Lungchang-li and Hungkou District were also organized and mess halls, factories, nurseries and spare-time middle-schools were set up. But they were not as progressive in scale and in nature as those in Peking and Tientsin.¹³

[1962, Shih Ch'eng-chih, “Types of Experimental Urban Communes”, in Urban Commune Experiments Communist China, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, published 1974, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:

On Tuesday, Netanyahu and his wife toured Shanghai’s Ohel Moshe synagogue in the Hongkou district that was home to many of the 18,000 Jews granted refuge in Shanghai from the horrors of Nazi persecution.

2013 May 7, “Netanyahu: Jewish people capable of own defense”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-25:


Bandon

A town and river in County Cork, Ireland.


Manzanares

en-proper noun

Manzanares (countable and uncountable, plural Manzanareses)

Manzanareses (plural)
Manzanarez (alternative)

Community of Madrid
Community of Madrid#English

A small river in the Community of Madrid, Spain, a tributary to the Jarama and Tagus, which flows through Madrid.

A river in Venezuela which flows into the Caribbean.


Allan Water

Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross#English

A river in Perth and Kinross council area and Stirling council area, Scotland, which joins the River Forth.

A stream in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, which joins the River Teviot at Newmill.

A river in northern Ontario, Canada, named after the river in Stirling.


Charyn

A river in the Almaty Region, Kazakhstan.


Brora

From Old Norse brú (genitive brúar) + á (“river with a bridge”).

A river in Sutherland, Highland council area, which flows into the North Sea at Brora.


Clydach

A short river in Monmouthshire, which joins the River Usk.

A river in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, which joins the River Neath.


Douglas Water

A river in Glen Douglas, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Lomond.

A river in Argyll and Bute council area which flows into Loch Fyne.

South Lanarkshire
South Lanarkshire#English

A river in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland, which joins the Clyde. Douglas in South Lanarkshire is also on this river.


Shiel

Shiel (countable and uncountable, plural Shiels)

A short river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows from Loch Shiel to Loch Moidart.

A river in Glen Shiel, further north in Highland council area.


Okement

A river in Devon, England, which joins the River Torridge, formed from the tributaries East Okement River and West Okement River.


Deepdale

A river on the West Coast, New Zealand, which joins the Buller River.


French River

A number of rivers and communities in Canada:

A river in central Ontario which flows from Lake Nipissing to Georgian Bay, Lake Huron.

A river in Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario.

A short river in Massachusetts and Connecticut, United States.

Saint Louis County
Saint Louis County#English

A short river in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States, which flows into Lake Superior.


Glaisnock Water

A minor river in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland, which joins Lugar Water at Cumnock.


Huangpu

Huangpu
Kingdom of Chu
Lord Chunshen
Songjiang
Warring States Era

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 黃浦 /黄浦 (Huángpǔ, literally “Yellow Bank”), a clipping of 黃歇浦 /黄歇浦 (Huáng Xiē pǔ, literally “Huang Xie Bank”), named in honor of Lord Chunshen, a statesman of the Kingdom of Chu during the Warring States Era closely associated with Songjiang and Shanghai.

der

Whangpoo (alternative dated)
Whampoa (alternative)

Shang-hai, situated 31°14'7" lat. N. and 121029' long. E., stretches nearly 10 miles along the l. bank of the Huang-p’u, on the opposite bank of which stands the suburb of P’u-tung.

[1912, “Chiang-su”, in Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea, Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 293:

In 1864, Sir McDonald Stephenson, an eminent British engineer, arrived in China to impress the advantages of railways on China, but his scheme was pigeonholed. The next scheme was the Woosung Railway, from Shanghai on the Huangpu river to Woosung at its mouth, a distance of 12 miles.

1915 October 1, Charles Davis Jameson, “The Status of Chinese Railways”, in Railway Age Gazette, volume 59, number 14, New York, page 602, column 1:

The first mill to send its Chinese workers home was the Nikka Number 8 Mill down the Huangp’u River from Shanghai at its Wusung entry to the vast Yangtze. The neighboring Wing On mill under Chinese owners continued to hum. There at Wusung Port was also the Chinese fortress guarding both the entrance to Shanghai’s waterway and the arterial Yangtze.

[2001, Donald A. Jordan, “The Last Straw at Shanghai”, in China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:

Lockdowns for the city's residents east of the Huangpu river began on March 28, while lockdowns for the rest of the city started on April 1. The exercise originally was intended to last five days.

2022 April 7, Brenda Goh, David Kirton, “Shanghai vows to improve food deliveries as discontent grows over COVID curbs”, in Gerry Doyle, Kim Coghill, Nick Macfie, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-04-08:

A tributary of the Yangtze in Shanghai Municipality in China.


Huangpu

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 黃埔 /黄埔 (Huángpǔ).

An explosion hit an oil refinery in Guangzhou, in the Guangdong province in South China early on Thursday, triggering a fire, the Hong Kong Free Press reported.
According to the report, the blast occurred in an industrial zone in Huangpu district and no casualties have been reported.

2015 December 23, Apeksha Nair, “Explosion hits Guangzhou oil refinery - media”, in Sandra Maler, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-11, World News:

A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.


Yangjingbang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洋涇浜 /洋泾浜 (Yángjīngbāng).

Some of the famous inns like the Taian Inn and the Qianyi Inn located in the Jiaji Long (lane) to the north of Yangjingbang (the present Yanan Road, East) started their business in a lane.

1985, Jia You, “GENERAL ASPECTS OF STREET-LANES IN SHANGHAI”, in Min Dayong, transl., Anecdotes of Old Shanghai, 1st edition, Shanghai Cultural Publishing House, →OCLC, page 137:

The French Concession lay between the walled Chinese city and Yang-ching-pang Creek, later filled in and called Edward VII Avenue. The British Settlement stretched from Yang-ching-pang to Soochow Creek while the American settlement consisted of a piece of land fronting the river to the north-east of Soochow Creek.

[1990, Harriet Sergeant, “A Simple Equation – The Rise of a Great City”, in Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:

Rows of simply constructed, single-story wooden houses appeared literally overnight along the Bund, in the northwest part of the British Settlement, as well as on the banks of Yangjingbang, the creek that separated the British and French settlements.

1999, Hanchao Lu, “Going to Shanghai”, in Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century, University of California Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:

By 1848 this boundary had been pushed westwards to today’s Central Tibet Road (formerly known as Defence Creek) and bounded by Suzhou Creek to the north and by the Yangkingpang Creek (today’s East Yan’an Road) to the south. The British were adamant about keeping their +70-acre area free of Chinese residents.

[2013, Paul Mooney, Peter Hibbard, “Getting Around Shanghai”, in Beijing & Shanghai: China's Hottest Cities, Odyssey Books & Maps, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 338:

(historical) A former tributary of the Huangpu, Shanghai, China.


Ouseburn

Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne#English

A minor river in Tyne and Wear, England, which flows through Newcastle upon Tyne to the River Tyne.


Songhua

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 松花 (sōnghuā) in 松花江 (Sōnghuā Jiāng).

The water quality of the Songhua River (Northeast China) was of concern, especially in the 1980s and early 1990s, and there were many studies carried out on this aspect. However, only one or several independent water quality indices were used to consider the effects of pollutants on the water quality, for instance, heavy metal and toxic organic pollutants. The combined effects of multiple indices were seldom studied. In this article, based on the environmental monitoring data, the water quality of the Songhua River was analyzed using factor analysis, which comprehensively considered six indices of water quality of each monitoring section.

2003 April, Yu, S. et al., “Factor Analysis and Dynamics of Water Quality of the Songhua River, Northeast China”, in Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, volume 144, number 1, archived from the original on 2024-10-17, pages 159–169:

The reports, including some from the official Xinhua news agency, suggested that officials here and in Jilin Province, where the disaster occurred 380 kilometers, or 235 miles, up the Songhua River, lied or told only part of the story until they had no choice but to admit the truth.[…]
"They were trying to lie and get by," said Qi Guangzhong, 64, as he walked along the Songhua River on Friday. "The government wanted to hide this."

2005 November 25, Jim Yardley, “China tried to keep benzene spill secret”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-29, Asia Pacific:

The study site of the Songhua River is located in the Heilongjiang Province on the territory of Northern China. The Songhua flows from south west to northeast near the center of Harbin, having a length of about 50 km within the city. The Songhua is a plains river with a sandy bottom and meandering bed. The fairway width ranges from 400 to 800 m, depth from 2 to 12 m. Bottom sediments of the Songhua nearby Harbin, as compared to other rivers and lakes of Northern China, contain particularly high concentrations of Pb, Zn and Ni, as well as appreciable levels of Cd and As [6, 12].

May 2020, Zarykhta, V.V. et al., “Differential Accumulation of Heavy Metals in Soft Tissues of Three Bivalvian Species from the Songhua River near Harbin (China)”, in Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology, volume 56, number 2, pages 125–132:

A river in Northeast China which is the longest tributary of the Amur.


Cassiar

Corruption of Kaska. From Kaska. From the Kaska Dena, an Athabaskan-speaking First Nations group of the Dene, who live in the region of Northern British Columbia and Southern Yukon Territory.

Cassiar Land District
Cassiar Land District#English

A river in the Cassiar Land District, in northwest British Columbia, Canada; in full, Cassiar River.


Guyandotte

A river in West Virginia, United States, which flows into the Ohio River.


Ceiriog

A river in the Ceiriog Valley, Wrexham borough county borough, and also in Shropshire, where it forms the border between England and Wales before joining the River Dee.


Banwy

A river in Powys, Wales, which joins the River Vyrnwy at Newbridge.


Juniata

A number of places in the United States:

A river in Pennsylvania, which joins the Susquehanna River.


Mohaka

A river in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean


Silver Creek

A number of streams and creeks in the United States and Canada, and probably elsewhere:

A left tributary of the Little Colorado, Arizona, United States.


Oriège

A right tributary of the Ariège in Occitania, France.


Ottertail

C.P.R. 2-10-4 No. 5906 on the second part of the westbound Dominion between Field and Ottertail, British Columbia. In the background is Mount Stephen.

1939 November, “Overseas Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 348, photo caption:

A river and locality (on the Canadian Pacific Railway) in British Columbia, Canada.


Ury

A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, which joins the River Don at Inverurie.


Went

en-proper noun

Went (countable and uncountable, plural Wents)

Topographic surname, from Middle English went (“crossroad, passage”).

der

East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire#English

The River Went, a river in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire, England, a tributary of the River Don. It forms the boundary between South Yorkshire and both North Yorkshire and the East Riding in its lower reaches.


Wansbeck

A river in Northumberland, England, which flows into the North Sea.


Wylye

A river in Wiltshire, England, which joins the River Nadder at Wilton.


Nadder

A river in Wiltshire, England, which joins the (Hampshire) Avon at Salisbury.


Neamț

A river and county of Romania. Capital: Piatra Neamț.


Ecclesbourne

A minor river in Derbyshire, England, which joins the Derwent near Duffield.


Wensum

A river in Norfolk, England, which joins the River Yare at Norwich.


Golok

A river in Malaysia and Thailand that flows north-eastwards on the border of both countries.


Manifold

en-proper noun

Manifold (countable and uncountable, plural Manifolds)

The River Manifold, a river in Staffordshire, England, a tributary of the River Dove.


Tarim

Similarly, Lop Nur Lake, in southeastern Xinjiang, which once supported a thriving indigenous culture, dried up for good in the early 1970s. Its lifeline, the Tarim River, which used to skirt the northern fringe of the Taklamakan Desert, has been sucked dry by upstream agriculture.

2002 July 19, “Traffic flows where river once did”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-10-07:

The Tarim River, he notes, used to drain into a large inland lake, which dried up completely in the 1960s.

2013 April 30, Steven Mufson, “China struggles to tap its shale gas”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-10-21, Business:

For several decades, the lower Tarim river, in proximity of the new transport corridors, had been in the eye of a major ecological disaster. The upper part of the 2,030 km river was heavily dammed for agricultural purposes.

2019 June 29, Atul Aneja, “The inescapable revival of the Tarim basin”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 2020-11-07:

A river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.


Yalu

zh-l

鴨綠／鸭绿 (Yālù)

[...]the Founder of that Family, who took the Name of Yuen, and who is known in Europe by the Name of Zing hi, or Zing his kan, but whom the Chineſe Hiſtory calls Tchin bi ſe, and Tai tſou, after he had conquer’d the King had thoughts of carrying the War into Corea: His General, called Leou co immediately made himſelf Mafter of the Towns ſituated upon the Eaſt of the River Ya lou;[...]

[1739 [1735], P. Du Halde, “Geographical Obſervations on the Kingdom of Corea”, in The General History Of China, 2nd edition, volume IV, →OCLC, page 391:

The Tumen river separates Corea from Manchooria, except in the last few miles of its course, when it flows by Russian territory, the south-eastern corner of Siberia. The Yalu river also divides Corea from Manchooria.

1895, Trumbull White, The War in the East Japan, China, and Corea, Philadelphia: P.W. Ziegler & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 374:

More recently, work has been opened in a town on the Yalu River, about 500 miles by boat from Dairen.

1935, A. W. Yocum, “From Dairen, Manchuria-Organized 1925”, in Annual of the Southern Baptist Convention, Memphis, TN, page 206:

In an effort to limit the war to the borders of Korea, the United Nations forces were prohibited by political directive from firing across the Yalu River—a prohibition which made a sanctuary of Manchurian territory.

1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 176:

Soon after the start of the Russian-instigated North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950, Peiping sent 200,000 “volunteers” across the Yalu.

1973 May 27, “Mao still embraces Stalin cult”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 20, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

By this time, Kim II Sung already had the assurances of the Chinese that they would not allow his government to fall without a fight. So he retreated to Sinuiju, on the Korean side of the Yalu, just across from the Manchurian industrial center of Antung, and shouted curses over the radio waves at the United Nations, President Syngman Rhee, and the United States.

1984, Edwin P. Hoyt, “To the Yalu”, in On to the Yalu, New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247:

Positioned near the mouth of the Yalu River, Dandong is China’s largest border town, and much of North Korea’s trade with the world flows across its old bridges or through its deepwater port.

2017 May 12, Jane Perlez, Yufan Huang, Paul Mozur, “How North Korea Managed to Defy Years of Sanctions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-05-12, Asia Pacific:

A river forming the southern part of the China-North Korea border.

鴨緑江

おうりょくこう、Ōryokukō; おうりょっこう

Banmendian

Other Mandarin-derived geographical terms in Korea


Tumen

圖們／图们 (Túmén)

Another tribe, the Kwiara, live on the frontiers of Korea, on the north bank of the Tumen river, and these are probably also Orochi.

1861, E. G. Ravenstein, The Russians on the Amur, London: Trubner and Co., page 340:

The Tumen river separates Corea from Manchooria, except in the last few miles of its course, when it flows by Russian territory, the south-eastern corner of Siberia.

The Tumen is not yet so important as the Yalu, but with the development of a rival to Vladivostock, now a closed port, in Hunchun, it is acquiring greater importance.

1910, The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China, Shanghai: The National Review Office, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:

Springing northeast from Paektu, the cold Tumen River separates Korea from eastern Manchuria and Siberia. On the Yalu and along the swift-flowing tributaries of the Tumen stand the Japanese-built hydroelectric plants which, until the power lines were cut by the Communists at the 38th parallel, provided 90% of the electricity used in all Korea.

1950 July 24, “Background for War”, in Time, volume LVI, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

A ride along the Chinese shore of the Tumen River illustrated its potential for development.

1997 [1996], Willem van Kemenade, translated by Diane Webb, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc., New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 318:

The Tumen River serves as part of the border between China and North Korea, with the Chinese city of Tumen on the left and the North Korean town of Namyang on the right.

2010 June 9, Sharon LaFraniere, “Views Show How North Korea Policy Spread Misery”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-06-11, Asia Pacific:

A river forming part of the border between Jilin, China and North Korea, and the border between Rasŏn, North Korea and Khasansky district, Primorsky Krai, Russia.


Beaver Dam

A number of places in the United States:

A river (the Beaver Dam River) in Dodge County, Wisconsin.


Gipping

A river in Suffolk with its headwaters in the parish, which becomes the River Orwell at Ipswich.


Ravensbourne

A minor river in south-east Greater London, England, which joins the Thames at Deptford. Ravensbourne railway station is near this river.

A minor river in the borough of Havering, north-east Greater London, which joins the River Rom (or Beam).


Klip River

Partial calque of Afrikaans Kliprivier, from klip (“stone”) + rivier (“river”).

A river in Gauteng, South Africa, which joins the Vaal River.

A river in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which joins the Tugela River.


Umbilo

A river in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which flows into Durban harbour.


Mooi River

From Mooirivier, in Afrikaans mooi + rivier.

Mooi River (Tugela)
Mooi River (Vaal)
Mooi River (town)

(with the) A river in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which joins the Tugela River.

(with the) A river in North West, a province in South Africa, which joins the Vaal River.


Târnava Mică

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Târnava Mică.


Des Plaines

A river in Wisconsin and Illinois, United States, which forms the Illinois River.


Dofteana

A river in Bacău, Romania, tributary to the Trotuș.


Bunila

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bunila.

A village, river, and commune of Hunedoara County, Romania.


Kootenay

The Kootenay River, a river in British Columbia, Canada, a tributary of the Columbia River. The mid-section of the river enters Idaho and Montana in the United States, where it is named the Kootenai River.


Jiul de Vest

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Jiul de Vest.


Stort

A back-formation from Bishop's Stortford; apparently the river's original name was the Stour.

A river in Essex and Hertfordshire, England, which joins the River Lea near Hoddesdon.


Panjshir

Borrowed from Iranian Persian پنجشیر (panjšir), from Classical Persian پنجشیر (panjšēr, literally “five lions”).

der

Panjsher (alternative)
Panjsheer (alternative)

A river in Panjshir Valley, Panjshir Province, Afghanistan.


Androscoggin

A river in New Hampshire and Maine, United States, which joins the Kennebec River before reaching the sea.


Erne

From Irish abhainn na hÉirne, An Éirne, from a goddess or population called Érainn, which could be related to Old Irish Ériu (“matron goddess of Ireland”), in which case a doublet of Ireland.

A river in Ireland and Northern Ireland, starting in County Cavan, entering County Fermanagh, and passing through Upper and Lower Lough Erne on its way to the sea in County Donegal.


Borăscu

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Borăscu.

ubor

A river, village, and commune of Gorj County, Romania.


Fillan

With Ben More in the distance, West Coast Railways 37668 pilots 37669 over the River Fillan on the approach to Crianlarich on July 26.

2021 September 22, “Modern Images”, in RAIL, page 67, photo caption:

A river, the River Fillan in Stirling council area, Scotland, which forms an upper section of the River Tay above Loch Dochart, through Strath Fillan and Crianlarich.


Bistra Mărului

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bistra Mărului.

A river in Caraș-Severin County, Romania.


Coșna

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Coșna.


Sitna

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Sitna.


Stiffkey

A village, civil parish, and short river in North Norfolk district, on the north coast of Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF9743).


Waiau

A river in western Southland, New Zealand, which flows into Te Waewae Bay.

A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean, known since 2018 as the Waiau Uwha River.

A river in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, which joins the Wairoa River.


Oaro

A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at Oaro.


Kahutara

A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean south-west of Kaikoura.


Hapuku

A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean north of Kaikoura.


Rock Creek

A large number of creeks and tributaries, especially in the United States.


Kander

From Alemannic German Kander, a name said to be of pre-Roman/Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *kandera (“bright, brilliant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kand-, see also Ancient Greek κάνδαρος (kándaros).

der

A river in Switzerland, which flows into Lake Thun.


Cuyahoga

/ˌkaɪ.əˈhɒɡə/

/ˌkaɪ.əˈhoʊɡə/

Believed to be from an Iroquoian word meaning "crooked river".

Cuyahoga
 Cuyahoga's gone

1986, J. Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter L. Buck, William T. Berry, “Cuyahoga”, in Lifes Rich Pageant, performed by R.E.M.:

The year is 1837, and the Cuyahoga is the sidewinding river separating the empire of Cleveland from the more rough-hewn frontier town of Ohio City.

2020 June 10, Stephen Markley, “Pete Beatty’s ‘Cuyahoga’ Images an Ohio, and a Country, Divided”, in The New York Times:

A river in Ohio, United States, which flows into Lake Erie.


Chicopee

A number of places in the United States:

A tributary of the Connecticut River in Massachusetts.


Nidd

From Old English Nid, from Proto-West Germanic *Nǐd, from Proto-Germanic *Nidā, from Proto-Indo-European *neid-/*nid- (“flow”).

A river in North Yorkshire, England, which joins the (Yorkshire) Ouse.


Battle Creek

A river in Michigan, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River.


Doe Lea

Unknown, the village was probably named after the river and its valley.

A minor river, the River Doe Lea in Derbyshire, which joins the South Yorkshire Rother.


Burdekin

en-prop

Burdekin (countable and uncountable, plural Burdekins)

The Burdekin River, a river in northern Queensland, named after Thomas Burdekin, that flows into the Coral Sea.


Greet

Greet (countable and uncountable, plural Greets)

A minor river in Nottinghamshire, England, which joins the River Trent at Fiskerton (Notts.).


Reuss

en-proper noun

Reuss (countable and uncountable, plural Reusses)

German surname for a cobbler, from the obsolete Middle High German (alt)riusse. Also from the noun Russe (“Russian”).
For the river see Reuss below.

A river in Switzerland, spanning from its source in Uri to its mouth in Aargau.


Limmat

A river in Switzerland, spanning from its outfall in Zurich to its mouth into the Aare in Aargau.


Linth

A river in Switzerland, spanning most of Glarus where it has its source, running into Lake Zurich in Schwyz / Saint Gallen.


Saane

A left tributary of the Aar in Valais, Bern, Vaud and Fribourg cantons, Switzerland.


Porcupine Creek

A river in Haines, Alaska, United States.


California Creek

Sixty Mile River
Sixty Mile River#English

A creek in Yukon Territory, Canada, a tributary of the Sixty Mile River, outside of the Dawson City region.


Duncan Creek

A creek in Yukon, Canada, outside of the Keno City region.


Scribner Creek

A creek in Klondike, Yukon, Canada, a tributary of the Indian River


Whatcom

From Lummi Saanich Xwotʼqom, meaning "noisy water", for what is now Whatcom Falls.

Ellipsis of the Whatcom Creek: a creek in Whatcom County, Washington, United States.


Sumas

From Halkomelem Semá:th, from semá:th (“big level opening”), for the lowland area surrounding Sumas Lake.

Smess (alternative)
Shemotch (alternative)

A river in the Fraser Lowland region, whose headwaters originate on American Sumas and flows through British Columbia, Canada and Whatcom County, Washington, United States; in full, Sumas River.


Suma

A river in Mbeya, Tanzania; in full, Suma River.


Tatlow

en-proper-noun

Tatlow (countable and uncountable, plural Tatlows)

A river whitewater-rated in Ashlu Valley, Squamish, Coastal, British Columbia, Canada, tributary of Ashlu Creek.

A creek buried under Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.


Glaslyn

Afon Glaslyn
Glaslyn
Glaslyn, Saskatchewan

A river in Gwynedd, Afon Glaslyn, which flows from the above lake to the estuary at Porthmadog.


Ohio River

From Seneca ohiːyoʼ, a proper name derived from ohiːyoːh (“good river”), itself already containing the term "river" in Seneca. See more at Ohio.

(US) A major river in the United States, flowing 981 miles from the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela at Pittsburgh into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois.


Powell River

Powell River Regional District
en:Powell River

A river in Powell River, Powell River, Regional District of Powell River, Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada, whose source is Powell Lake, and whose mouth is on the Salish Sea; Both the river and its source, the lake, are named for Israel Wood Powell, 19th-century Commissioner of Indian Affairs for British Columbia.

A river in Tennessee and Virginia, of United States, a tributary of Clinch River, that feeds the Tennessee River; Named for 18th-century explorer Ambrose Powell, who was on the expedition that explored the river.


Dwarka

Transliteration of Gujarati દ્વારકા (dvārkā), Hindustani دوارکا (dvārkā) / द्वारका (dvārkā), Bengali দ্বারকা (darka), from Sanskrit द्वारका (dvārakā).

transliteration

A river in the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal.


Vie

Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire#English

A river in Vendée department, Pays de la Loire, France.

A river in Normandy, France, flowing through Orne department and Calvados department.


Sontra

A river in Hesse which passes through the town.


Werra

A river in Hesse, Lower Saxony and Thuringia, central Germany.


Oak Creek

A number of streams in the United States.


Berzasca

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Berzasca.

ubor

A river, village, and commune of Caraș-Severin County, Romania.


Etherow

A river in South Yorkshire (its source only), Derbyshire and Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt near Marple.


Ashop

A river in High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England, that flows into Ladybower Reservoir.


Fiddich

A river in Moray council area, Scotland, which joins the Spey at Craigellachie.


Nethy

A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which joins the River Spey at Broomhill.


Yarra

A river in southern Victoria, Australia, which flows through Melbourne to Port Phillip.


Rahway

A river in New Jersey which flows into Arthur Kill.


Skokie

A river in northern Illinois, a tributary of the Chicago River.


Churchill River

Churchill+river. Coined by Joey Smallwood in 1965. From being a river named in honour of Sir Winston Churchill, by Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood, renamed along with the waterfall situated along it, just prior to the commencement of the hydroelectric project at the falls; renaming it from Hamilton River, itself renamed from Grand River, derived from the Innu name of the river, Mishtashipu.

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador#English

A river in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, containing Churchill Falls.

en:Churchill River
en:Sir Winston Churchill


Grand River

(Churchill River): grand+river. Calque of Montagnais Mishta-shipu Literally, “Great River”. From mishta+shipu.

(with the) Former name of Churchill River; Former name of Hamilton River; A river in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

(with the) A river in Ontario, Canada, that flows into Lake Erie.

(with the) A river in the United States:

Former name of Colorado River, Colorado, renamed in 1921.

A river in Michigan, that flows into Lake Michigan.

A river in Ohio, that flows into Lake Erie.

A river in the United States:
Synonym of Neosho River in Oklahoma.

A river in Iowa and Missouri, a tributary of the Missouri River.

A river in South Dakota, a tributary of the Missouri River.


Hamilton River

(Churchill River): Hamilton+river. Coined by British Royal Navy captain William Martin in 1821. Named in honour of Commodore-General of Newfoundland Sir Charles Hamilton. Renaming the river formerly called Grand River.

coin

Former name of the Churchill River: a river in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

en:Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet, of Marlborough House


Mishtashipu

the Mishtashipu (canonical)
Mishta-Shipu (alternative)
Mishta Shipu (alternative)
Mishta shipu (alternative)
Mishta-shipu (alternative)

From Montagnais Mishta-shipu. Literally, “Great River”. From mishta+shipu.

Synonym of Churchill River; A river in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.


Creedy

A river in Devon, England, a tributary of the River Exe.


Lütschine

Bernese Oberland
Bernese Oberland#English

A river and its two branches in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland.


Blackstone River

Named after William Blackstone (original spelling William Blaxton) who arrived in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1623, and became the first European settler of present-day Boston in 1625. He relocated again, to Rhode Island in 1635 and built his home on the river, in what would become Cumberland.

A river in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.


Bièvre

A river in France that flows into the Seine in Paris.


Bangali

en-noun

Bangali (countable and uncountable, plural Bangalis)

Bangalis (plural)
Bengali (alternative standard)
Bangalee (alternative archaic)
Bengalee (alternative archaic)


Awash

A river in Ethiopia, after which the town is named.


Gellibrand

A river in Victoria. Both town and river were named after Joseph Gellibrand.


Conop

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Conop.

A river, village, and commune of Arad County, Romania.


Lotru

A river in Vâlcea, Romania, tributary to the Olt.


Șușița

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Șușița.


Căiuți

A river in Bacău, Romania, tributary to the Trotuș.


Năruja

A river in Vrancea, Romania, tributary to the Zăbala.


Huon

A river in southern Tasmania, Australia, named after Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec.


Illecillewaet

There is scanty room for a railway, and in many places the rails are wetted by the spray from the Illecillewaet, which is the Indian word for a raging torrent.

1941 December, G. H. Soole, “The Mountain Section of the C.P.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 530:

A river and glacier in British Columbia, Canada, a tributary of the Columbia River.

Illecillewaet Glacier
Illecillewaet River


Normanby

"Village of the Norwegians", from Old Norse Norðmanna, genitive plural of Norðmaðr (“Norseman”) + býr (“village”).

The Normanby River, a large river system in northern Queensland, Australia, which flows into the Pacific Ocean.


Jijia

A river in Romania and Ukraine, tributary to the Prut.


Irpin

Borrowed from Ukrainian Ірпі́нь (Irpínʹ).

bor+

A city in Irpin municipality, Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, on the Irpin River.

A municipality of Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.

A river in Ukraine, a tributary of the Dnieper River.


Poonch

Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir#English

a river in the territory of Azad Kashmir in Pakistan and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir in India.


Dargo

From an Aboriginal word meaning "to wait", "to have patience".

A river in eastern Victoria, Australia, which flows the Victorian Alps and East Gippsland regions.


Donets River

A river on the south of the East European Plain in Russia and Ukraine.


Seversky Donets

Borrowed from Russian Се́верский Доне́ц (Séverskij Donéc). Compare Ukrainian Сі́верський Доне́ць (Síversʹkyj Donécʹ).

Се́верский Доне́ц

cog

Сі́верський Доне́ць

Severski Donets (alternative)
Siversky Donets (alternative)


Wissey

A river in south-west Norfolk, England, which flows west to join the Great Ouse.


Great Ouse

Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 223, about Hemingford Grey:

A river in England, which flows from Northamptonshire, through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, to The Wash and the North Sea.


Quiver

Corruption of the French Cuivre, from cuivre (“copper”).

A stream in Illinois, United States; in full, Quiver Creek.


North Esk

The sight of them [the Grampians] as we crossed the viaduct over the North Esk I am not likely to forget. After a night of snow, they hung wraith-like across the sky, exquisitely beautiful in the greyness of winter dawn.

1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:

A river in Angus council area and Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, which flows into the North Sea.

A river in Midlothian council area, Scotland, a branch of the River Esk, East Lothian.

A river in northern Tasmania, Australia, which joins the Tamar.


Kaveri

A river flowing through the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, India.


Clackamas

from ɬak'amas, the Chinookan name for the people of the Clackamas River region, "g-i-ɬá-q'imaš" or "g-it-ɬá-q'imaš"


Dibb

A short river in North Yorkshire, England, which joins the River Wharfe.


Chenab

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-Iranian *čandrás
Sanskrit चन्द्र (candra)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰāgás
Sanskrit भाग (bhāga)
Sanskrit चन्द्रभागा (candrabhāgā)bor.
Classical Persian چَنَاب (čanāb)bor.
Urdu چَنَاب (canāb)bor.
Classical Persian چَنَاب (čanāb)bor.
Hindi चनाब (canāb)bor.
English Chenab
Borrowed from Hindustani چَنَاب (canāb) / चनाब (canāb), from Classical Persian چناب (čanāb), ultimately from Sanskrit चन्द्रभागा (candrabhāgā).

etymon

Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh#English

a river in Punjab, Pakistan and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the state of Himachal Pradesh in India.


Wreake

A river in Leicestershire, England, which joins the River Soar.


Slavutych

From Ukrainian Славу́тич (Slavútyč), from Old East Slavic.

Սլավուտիչ

city in Slavutych, Vyshhorod, Kyiv, Ukraine

(with the, historical) Former name of Dnipro (“Dnipro River”) (Dnieper) (when referring to the early Rus era) A river in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia in Europe, flowing into the Black Sea.


La Quiaca

A river that forms part of the border between Argentina and Bolivia.


Sakarya

A river in northwestern Turkey, flowing through the Ankara Province, Eskişehir Province, Sakarya Province and Bilecik Province.


Eamont

A river in Cumbria, England, which flows from Ullswater to the River Eden.


Yalong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雅礱 /雅砻 (Yǎlóng).

Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of considerable length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yang-tsze-keang at Han-yang-Foo, in Hoopih,—and the Ya-lung-keang, which rises in Kokonor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yang-tsze-keang, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.

[1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:

Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of cansiderable^([sic – meaning considerable]) length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yangtsze keäng at Hanyang foo, in Hoopih,—and the Yalung keäng, which rises in Koko-nor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yangtsze keäng, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.

[1833 [1832 June], Le Mingche Tsinglae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neën Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta Tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository, 2nd edition, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:

A bridge over the Yalong River in Ganzi County, in Sichuan Province.

2008 April 3, Michael Benanav, “Caught Between a Crackdown and a Tibetan Welcome”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2008-04-06, Travel:

I was just a few kilometres outside Garze on the Yalong River, which started its journey on the Qinghai plateau and ended over 1,300 kilometres later when it poured into the Yangtze in the very southernmost corner of Sichuan.

2016, Richard Loseby, chapter 10, in A Boy of China (Non-fiction), HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:


Ciron

Borrowed from French Ciron, itself from Occitan Siron.

A left tributary of the Garonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.


Meon

A river in Hampshire, England, which empties into the Solent.


Sabattus

The name of a Native American chief, original spelling Sabattis, first given to the river.

A short river in Maine, a tributary of the Androscoggin River.


Rhumel River

bor

Arabic وادي الرمال

Rhummel River (alternative)
Rummel River (alternative)


Honey Creek

A number of places and streams in the United States:

A large number of streams in Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.


Mora River

San Miguel County
San Miguel County#English

(US) A river in Mora County and San Miguel County, New Mexico.


Daly River

Northern Territory
Northern Territory#English

A river in the Northern Territory of Australia.


Rush River

Unclear for the rivers. The places are probably named after the rivers.

A number of rivers and places in the United States:

A river in Minnesota, which joins the Minnesota River.

A river in Virginia, which joins the Thornton River

Mississippi River
Mississippi River#English

A river in Wisconsin, which joins the Mississippi River.


Ramu

Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea#English


Hay River

Presumably all from the Hay surname, information is generally lacking.

A river in Wisconsin, which passes through Dunn County en route to the Red Cedar River.

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories

A river in Alberta and the Northwest Territories which flows into the Great Slave Lake at the above town.

A river in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Western Australia
Western Australia#English

A river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, named after Sir Robert William Hay.


Artibonite

A river in Haiti, the longest in Hispaniola.


Salzach

A river in the states of Salzburg and Upper Austria, Austria, and Bavaria, Germany, which eventually joins the River Inn. It forms the border between Austria and Germany north of the city of Salzburg.

A short river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, a tributary of the Saalbach.


Wingham

en-proper noun

Wingham (countable and uncountable, plural Winghams)

From the Old English personal name Wīga, a byname from wīġ (“war”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).

A short river in Kent, with its source in the parish, which joins the Little Stour.


Little Stour

A river in eastern Kent, England, which joins the Great Stour to form the Kentish River Stour.


South Tyne

A river in Cumbria and Northumberland, England, which meets the North Tyne near Hexham and becomes the River Tyne.


Truro River

A river in Cornwall, England, which flows from Truro to the River Fal.


Glyme

A river in Oxfordshire, England, which flows into the River Evenlode.


Horse Creek

A river, a dry wash in Opalton, Queensland, Australia.


Aeron

A river in Ceredigion, Wales, which flows into Cardigan Bay at Aberaeron.


Armançon

A river in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, a tributary of the Yonne.


Murray River

The river is named after military officer and administrator James Murray (1721-1794). The community and municipality are named after the river.

/ˈmʌ.ɹi ˈɹɪv.ɚ/

Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island#English

A river in Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.


Clyde River

The river is named after the River Clyde in Scotland.
The community is named after the river.

A river in Prince Edward Island, Canada.


Hunter River

The river is named after British military officer Thomas Orby Hunter.
The community is named after the river.


West River

The river is named for its location when viewed from Charlottetown Harbour.
The municipality is named after the river.


Durance

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur#English

A left tributary of the Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.


Suzhou Creek

Partial calque from Mandarin 蘇州河／苏州河 (Sūzhōu Hé)

zh-l

蘇州河／苏州河 (Sūzhōu Hé)

The play centres on a Jewish-run cafe on the northern bank of Shanghai's Suzhou Creek, where Shana, the daughter of the cafe owner, finds herself pursued by both a Japanese official, Mr. Suzuki, as well as Song Yao, a Chinese resistance fighter.

2012 March 23, Royston Chan, Elaine Lies, “Play tells tale of Jewish refugees in WW2 Shanghai”, in Paul Casciato, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-10-13, Lifestyle:

Suzhou Creek was little more than an open sewer for decades as its murky waters coursed through the heart of Shanghai. Now, it teems with life along verdant banks that stretch for 26 miles.

2021 June 1, Keith Bradsher, “China’s Concrete Jungles Make Room for Green Space”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-01, Square Feet:

A river in Shanghai municipality and Jiangsu, China, between Lake Tai and the Huangpu River; despite its name, it is 78 miles long.


Longjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍江 /龙江 (Lóngjiāng), "Dragon River".

Former name of the Jiulong: a river in southern Fujian, China.


Lochy

A river in the Great Glen, Highland council area, Scotland, which flows from Loch Lochy to Loch Linnhe at Inverlochy.

A river in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland, that joins the River Orchy at Inverlochy, near Dalmally.

A river in Otago, South Island, New Zealand, which flows into Lake Wakatipu; in full, Lochy River.


Jialing

Translingual: Chialingosaurus

A left tributary of the Yangtze in Sichuan, China.


Peace River

A reference to the truce by the Cree and the Dane-zaa (Beaver) peoples that made the river (then named Unchagah) the boundary between the conflicting First Nations.
The town is originally named Peace River Crossing, after the river.

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A river flowing NE in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada into the Slave River.

Charlotte Harbor
Charlotte Harbor#English

A river in south-west Florida, United States, that flows into Charlotte Harbor.


Slave River

A reference to the Slavey group of Dene First Nations.

A river flowing north between Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Canada, emptying into Great Slave Lake.


Whangaehu

A river in the Manawatū-Whanganui region, New Zealand; in full, Whangaehu River.


Hawkesbury

Despite my imaginings, disaster was denied over the deep waters of the Hawkesbury.

2022 July 27, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Bridge disasters that spanned an Empire”, in RAIL, number 962, page 60:

A river, the Hawkesbury River, in New South Wales, Australia, named after Lord Hawkesbury (as in Ontario).


Shimsha

A river in Karnataka, India, a tributary of the Kaveri.


Dras

From South Asian languages
* (Dras Islands): From basaltic rocks found near the hill station, which were identified as indication of a former volcanic island chain that was accreted by plate tectonics.

A river in Kargil district, Ladakh, Kashmir, India; in the Dras Valley.


Wupper

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia#English

A tributary of the Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.


Zarnow

A river in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, north-eastern Germany.


Mullica

A river in southern New Jersey which flows into the Atlantic Ocean.


Calumet

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Calumet.wav

A number of places in the United States:

The Calumet River, a system of rivers and canals between the south side of Chicago, Illinois and Gary, Indiana.


Magnetawan

From Algonquin or Ojibwa, meaning "swiftly flowing waters".

The Magnetawan River, a river in Ontario, Canada, which flows into Lake Huron.


Skerne

A river in County Durham, England, which flows through Darlington to the River Tees.


Thamirabarani

/ˌtɑːməɹəˈbʌɹəni/

/ˌtʌm(ə)ɹəˈbʌɹəni/

Borrowed from Tamil தாமிரபரணி (tāmiraparaṇi), itself borrowed from Sanskrit ताम्रपर्णी (tāmraparṇī, literally “copper-leaved”), from ताम्र (tāmra, “copper”) + पर्ण (parṇa, “leaf”) + -ई (-ī).

af

A river in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, India.


Avoca

A river in County Wicklow, Ireland, which flows into the Irish Sea.

A number of places in Australia:
A river in central Victoria.


Versoix

A river in Vaud canton and Geneva canton, Switzerland, which rises in France under the name of Divonne and discharges into Lake Geneva.


Prairie Creek

A number of streams in the United States.


Maquoketa

From Meskwaki Maquaw-Autaw "Bear River".

A river in Iowa, United States, a tributary of the Mississippi.


Pascagoula

Mississippi Sound
Mississippi Sound#English

A river in the state of Mississippi, which flows into Mississippi Sound, Gulf of Mexico.


Apalachicola

/ˌæpəlæt͡ʃɪˈkoʊlə/

A river in Florida, United States, which flows from Georgia to the Gulf of Mexico.


Seekonk River

The Narragansitts were a great people heretofore; and the territory of their Sachem extended about thirty or forty miles from Sekunk river and Narragansitt bay, including Rhode Island and other islands in that bay, being their east and north bounds or border, and so running westerly and southerly unto a place called Wekapage, four or five miles to the eastward of Pawcutuk river, which was reckoned for their south and west border, and the easternmost limits of the Pequots.

1674, Daniel Gookin, “Historical Collections of the Indians in New England”, in MHS Collections, series 1, volume 1, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, published 1792, →OCLC, page 147:

Providence County
Providence County#English

A river in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, flowing from the Blackstone River to the Providence River.


Kings Creek

A number of streams in the United States and Canada.


Oskil

A river in Russia and Ukraine which arises roughly between Kursk and Voronezh and flows south to join the Seversky Donets.


Psel

From Russian Псёл (Psjol) with ё (jo) represented by e (as in Gorbachev etc.). Later reinforced by Ukrainian Псeл (Psel).

A river in Russia and Ukraine, a left tributary of the Dnipro.


Stryi

A city, raion, and river in Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine.


Barking Creek

A short tidal river in Greater London, England, which connects the River Roding to the River Thames (OS grid ref TQ4582).


Ogwen

From Welsh, og (“land”) + banw (“piglet”).

A river, lake and valley in Gwynedd, Wales.


Unadilla

From an Iroquois word for meeting place.

A number of places in the United States:

A river in this area of New York, a tributary of the Susquehanna.


Tippecanoe

A number of places (and a battle) in the United States:

A river in Indiana, a tributary of the Wabash River.


Licking Creek

A stream in Pennsylvania and Maryland, United States, a tributary of the Potomac.

A stream in West Virginia, United States.


Coaticook

From French Coaticook, from Abenaki koatikeku.

Coaticook
Coaticook Regional County Municipality
Coaticook River


Monongahela

From Unami mënaonkihëla (“where the banks cave in”).

bor

Allegheny Plateau
Allegheny Plateau#English

A river on the Allegheny Plateau in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, United States, a tributary of the Ohio River.


Salamonie

From a Miami Indian word, osahmonee, yellow paint, made from bloodroot plants on the riverbanks.

The Salamonie River, a tributary of the Wabash River in Indiana, United States.


Paint Creek

A number of streams in the United States.


St. Johns River

The longest river in the state of Florida, United States, 310 miles long.


Isar

A river in Tyrol, Austria and Bavaria, Germany, a tributary of the Danube.


Heddon

A short river in North Devon district, Devon, England, which flows into the Bristol Channel at Heddon's Mouth (OS grid ref SS6549).


Wimmera

The Wimmera River, an intermittent river in the Wimmera region, that flows northwards towards Lake Hindmarsh in western Victoria, Australia.


Bartın

Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Bartın, from Ancient Greek Παρθένιος (Parthénios). Doublet of Parthenius.

A river in northern Turkey that flows into the Black Sea.


Petteril

A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the River Eden on the outskirts of Carlisle.


Bois Brule

From French bois (“wood”) + brûle (“burnt”), from the verb brûler.

The Bois Brule River, a river in Wisconsin, United States, also known as the Brule River.


Cairn Water

Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway#English

A river in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.The lower river is also known as Cluden Water, before it joins the River Nith.


Couderay

From French courtes (“short”) + oreilles (“ears”), in connection with the ears of the Ojibwe people.

The Couderay River, a tributary of the Chippewa River, Wisconsin, first named Riviere des Courte Oreilles (River of the Short Ears).


Somo

The Somo River, a river in Wisconsin which passes through the town.


Otter Creek

A stream in the Atlin Country of British Columbia, Canada.

A stream and settlement in Tweed, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.


Beas

From Hindi ब्यास (byās) or Punjabi ਬਿਆਸ (biāsa), both ultimately from Sanskrit विपाशा (vipāśā).

A river of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab in northern India, rising in the Himalayas and emptying into the Sutlej.


Jarama

A river in Spain, passing through Guadalajara and Madrid, which flows into the Tagus at Aranjuez.


Kuskokwim River

Borrowed from Russian Кускоквим (Kuskokvim), itself from Yup'ik.


Tujunga Wash

Los Angeles River
Los Angeles River#English

A tributary of the Los Angeles River, California, United States.


Pacoima Wash

A tributary of the Tujunga Wash, California, United States.


Tern

The River Tern, a river in Shropshire, England, which joins the Severn at Atcham.


Arbas

* (river in Haute-Garonne): From French Arbas.
* (surname): From Spanish Arbas/Arbás.
* (village in Haute-Garonne): From French Arbas, itself from Occitan Arbast.

A left tributary of the Salat in Haute-Garonne department, Occitania, France.


Salwarpe

The River Salwarpe, a river near Salwarpe and Droitwich, Worcestershire, a tributary of the Severn.


Buffalo River

A river in Victoria, Australia, which joins the Ovens River.

A river in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa, which flows into the Indian Ocean at East London.

A river in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, a tributary of the Tugela River.

A number of rivers in the United States:

The Buffalo National River, a river in Arkansas, known as the Buffalo River for part of its length.

A short river in Georgia, a tributary of the Turtle River.

A river in Minnesota, a tributary of the Red River of the North.

A river in New York, which drains into Lake Erie at Buffalo.

A river in Tennessee, a tributary of the Duck River.

A river in Virginia, a tributary of the Tye River.

A river in Wisconsin, a tributary of the Mississippi River.


Yuna

Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic#English

A river in the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola island.


Meghna

A transliteration of Bengali মেঘনা (meghona), from মেঘ (megh, “cloud”), from Sanskrit मेघ (megha).

One of the three major rivers of Bangladesh which forms the Ganges delta, along with the Ganges (Padma) and Brahmaputra (Jamuna).


Oich

A short river in the Great Glen, between Loch Oich and Loch Ness, Highland council area, Scotland.


Bear River

A number of rivers in Canada, including British Columbia and Nova Scotia.

A number of rivers in the United States, including California, Colorado, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Utah, and Washington.


Bow Creek

A river in Greater London, England, which is the tidal part of the River Lea before it reaches the Thames.

A river in Devon, England, the tidal part of the Harbourne River before it reaches the tidal River Dart; the hamlet of Bow in Ashprington parish is located where the Harbourne becomes Bow Creek.


Enborne

From Old English ened (“duck”) + burna (“stream”).

The River Enborne, a river which forms part of the boundary between Berkshire and Hampshire, a tributary of the River Kennet.


Tanat

A river in northern Powys, Wales, which joins the River Vyrnwy in Shropshire, England.


Southern Bug

Calque of Ukrainian Півде́нний Буг (Pivdénnyj Buh)

calque

Півде́нний Буг


Swan Creek

A number of streams in the United States.


Mopan River

Calque of Spanish Río Mopán. Named after the Mayan Mopan people.

A river beginning in the Petén department of Guatemala and flowing into the Cayo district of Belize where it merges with the Macal River to form the Belize River.


Belize River

From Mopan Maya beliz (“muddy water(s)”), via Spanish.

A major river of Belize, formed from the confluence of the Mopan and Macal rivers and emptying into the Caribbean Sea just north of Belize City.


Cuckmere

The Cuckmere River or River Cuckmere, a river in East Sussex, England, which flows into the English Channel.


Yar

At Merstone, The line to Sandown branches to the left, descends the ½ mile at 1 in 70 of Redway bank, and runs along the valley of the little River Yar (not to be confused with the River Yar in the western part of the island), through low-lying pleasing countryside, covered in spring and summer with wild flowers, to Horringford, 1¾ miles from Merstone.

1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244:

Two rivers on the Isle of Wight, England, the Eastern Yar which reaches the sea at Bembridge, and the Western Yar at Yarmouth on the Solent. Both rivers are called the River Yar on Ordnance Survey Maps.


Răchitova

A river in Hunedoara, Romania, tributary to the Galbena.


Oława

Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lower Silesian Voivodeship#English

A town, county, and river in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.


Kym

en-proper-noun

Kym (countable and uncountable, plural Kyms)

The River Kym, a minor river in Cambridgeshire, England, that flows south-eastwards to join the Great Ouse.


Gaunless

Completed in 1823, Gaunless Bridge was designed by George Stephenson to span the River Gaunless in West Auckland, forming part of a line serving Witton Park Colliery.

2023 March 8, “Network News: Grant for repairs at Gaunless Bridge”, in RAIL, number 978, page 9:

A river in County Durham, England, which joins the River Wear north of Bishop Auckland.


Koshi

A river in Asia that originates in Nepal and flows into the Ganges.


Kaladan

Borrowed from Burmese ကုလားတန် (ku.la:tan).


Otonabee

Peterborough County
Peterborough County#English

A river in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada, a tributary of the Trent River.


Cloncurry

The Cloncurry River, a river in north-west Queensland, Australia, which joins the Flinders River, named after Lady Cloncurry in Ireland.


Rheidol

Afon Rheidol, a river in Ceredigion, Wales, which flows into Cardigan Bay at Aberystwyth.


Rivelin

A short river in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which joins the River Loxley.


Gavenny

A short minor river in Monmouthshire, Wales, which joins the River Usk at Abergavenny.


Oredezh

Transliteration of Russian Оредеж (Oredež) or Оредежь (Oredežʹ).

translit

A river in Russia, which falls into Luga


Wingecarribee

Southern Highlands
Southern Highlands#English

The Wingecarribee River, a river in the Southern Highlands, New South Wales.


Harbourne

A river in South Hams district, Devon, England, which changes its name to Bow Creek, at the hamlet of Bow where it becomes tidal.


Little Colorado

Meronyms: humpback chub, Little Colorado River Gorge

A tributary of the Colorado in Arizona, United States, providing the principal drainage from the Painted Desert region.


Findhorn

The River Findhorn, a river in Highland council area and Moray council area, Scotland, which flows into the Moray Firth at the village of Findhorn.


Whiteadder

Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders#English

Whiteadder Water, a river in East Lothian council area and Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, and with a short stretch in Northumberland, England, before joining the River Tweed.


Bound Brook

The brook was mentioned as a boundary in a Native American deed.

Middlesex County
Middlesex County#English

A stream in Middlesex County, New Jersey, a tributary of the Raritan River, which gives its name to the borough.


Vjosa

Although the inhabitants of the Vjosa River attributed the role of authority to the state at the level of discourse, which often resorted to political metalanguage, at the level of practice, or what is accessible through longue duree of their social organization (kinship), the inhabitants indirectly ascribed this authority to the kinship system and mythology.

2021, Nataša Gregorič Bon, “6: Kuçedra's Waterways: Restoring Authority and Building Vitality”, in Nataša Gregorič Bon, Smoki Musaraj, editors, Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary Albania, Springer, page 156:

2022, Tammie L. Gerke, Chapter 2: The Geological and Geographical Setting of the Bonjakët Site, Jack L. Davis, Iris Pojani, Sharon R. Stocker (editors), A Sanctuary in the Hora of Illyrian Apollonia, Lockwood Press, page 29,
The Shkumbin, Seman, and Vjosa Rivers run through this part of the coastal plain. The Shkumbin flows to the north of the Divjaka ridge, the Seman River between the Ardenica and Frakulla ridges, and the Vjosa River to the south of the Frakulla ridge.

A river of northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania.


Taedong

Borrowed from Korean 대동강(大同江) (Daedonggang).

Daedong (alternative)
Taidong (alternative)
Taedonggang (alternative)

Mr. Oh, who now lives in Seoul, knows that his parents have died — they would have been over 100 by now — but he found out only this month that his two sisters were alive in North Korea. And his kid brother, the little rascal he taught to swim in the Taedong River in Pyongyang, is also alive.

2010 October 29, Mark McDonald, “After 6 Decades of Separation in Korea, a Meeting”, in The New York Times, sourced from SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-25, Asia Pacific:

One project that has recently been completed is the Munsu Water Park (purportedly shown above in a picture from the KCNA news agency), which was described as a "monumental edifice for the people," on the banks of the Taedong River in Pyongyang.

2013 November 1, Julian Ryall, “Splashy Kim”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2021-05-25, Asia:

A section of the Koryo Hotel, one of the oldest and best known hotels in Pyongyang, caught fire on Thursday, sources who witnessed the fire in the North Korean capital told Reuters.
Images obtained by Reuters showed plumes of black smoke billowing from the bridge connecting the two 43-storey towers of the 143-metre (469-feet) structure, which lies a short distance from Pyongyang's bustling train station and the Taedong river that cuts through the city.

2015 June 12, James Pearson, “Popular Pyongyang tourist spot the Koryo Hotel catches fire”, in Andrew Hay, Paul Tait, editors, Reuters, sourced from SEOUL (Reuters), archived from the original on 2024-07-29, World:

The "petrol clams" are fleshy and flavourful -- the secret to avoiding a hydrocarbon taste is not to inhale while slipping them into the mouth -- and a speciality of the West Sea Barrage beach at Nampho, southwest of Pyongyang.
The sandy beach lies at the far end of the eight-kilometre barrier across the Taedong river mouth -- ostensibly built for flood control, but which also blocks access to Pyongyang, a few dozen kilometres upriver, for any invading navy.

2017 August 3, “Shellfish, fire and Party praise: beach breaks, North Korea style”, in France 24, sourced from Nampho (North Korea) (AFP), archived from the original on 2020-11-11, Live news:

Rainstorms also pounded North Korea, where authorities issued heavy rain warnings for the southern and western parts of the country. North Korea’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper described the rain as potentially disastrous and called for measures to protect farmland and prevent flooding on the Taedong River, which flows through the capital, Pyongyang.

2022 August 9, Kim Tong-hyung, “South Korean rain turns roads into rivers, leaves 9 dead”, in AP News, sourced from SEOUL, South Korea (AP), archived from the original on 2022-08-09:

The river that flows through Pyongyang in North Korea.


Oykel

A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows via the Kyle of Sutherland to Dornoch Firth.


Chongchon

From Korean 청천강(清川江) (Cheongcheon'gang).

In the fierce fighting, B Company, which was under strength, was reduced to 34 soldiers. Among the survivors holding a hilltop adjacent to the Chongchon River was a defiant black, an enlisted man, who wielded a Browning automatic rifle and was destined that night to earn a Silver Star.

1988 November 11, David K. Carlisle, “Black Veterans: Justice Overdue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-06, Opinion, page 31:

The U.S. search for remains has focused on former battlefields in the vicinity of the Chongchon River, north of Pyongyang, and in the Chosin Reservoir area, scene of some of the most savage fighting of the war in late November and early December 1950.

2003 July 8, Robert Burns, “N. Korea OKs Talks on U.S. Servicemen”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-08-06:

He was 20 years old in late 1950 when Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of the United Nations' forces in South Korea, launched the "Home by Christmas" offensive. The goal was to evict Chinese forces from the country and end the Korean War.
The Chinese had other ideas, launching a counteroffensive that left the entire 8th Army — including Rangel's beloved 2nd Infantry Division — encircled at Kunu-ri, located near the Chongchon River by the Chinese border.

2013 July 3, Catalina Camia, “For Rep. Rangel, Kunu-ri battle was his 'last bad day'”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-07-07, News:

The Mundok Reserve, which lies at the mouth of Chongchon River on North Korea's west coast, is an important habitat for such endangered migratory birds as the red-crowned crane, hooded crane and swan goose.

2018 March 16, “N. Korea to join Ramsar Convention in May”, in Yonhap News Agency, archived from the original on 2023-08-07, All News:

The remains of both servicemembers came from the same 1950 battlegrounds near the Chongchon River in what is present-day North Korea. U.S. troops suffered heavy casualties there against Chinese forces that had intervened in the war.

2018 September 10, Phil Stewart, “First two U.S. troops from North Korean remains identified”, in Paul Tait, David Stamp, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-08-06, WORLD NEWS:


Maigue

The River Maigue, a river mainly in County Limerick, Ireland, which flows into the Shannon estuary.


Wollondilly

The Wollondilly River, a river in New South Wales, which gave its name to the shire, and flows into Lake Burragorang.


Garden River

A river in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.


Balonne

From an aboriginal word for water or running stream.

The Balonne River, a river in southern Queensland, Australia.


Han River

Partial calque of Chinese 漢江 /汉江 (Hànjiāng).

partial calque

In the one case, a two-storeyed house in Wuchang which has long been needing repairs collapsed and killed the mother and son of the occupier. In the other case, a house built partly on piles at the edge of the Han River above Chiaokou was overturned and the wife and daughter of the tenant were thrown into the river and drowned.

1930 August 5 [1930 August 1], “Hailstone Damage Near Hankow”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court and Consular Gazette, volume CLXXVI, number 3287, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 199, column 5:

Here, more than 14 million people in Hubei would be affected if the project damaged the Han River, the tributary of the Yangtze where the middle route starts, said Du Yun, a geographer at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, the provincial capital.

2011 June 1, Edward Wong, “Plan for China’s Water Crisis Spurs Concern”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-06-03, Asia Pacific:

A tributary of the Yangtse flowing through Shaanxi and Hubei, China, with its river mouth in Wuhan


Tsavo

The Tsavo River, a river in Kenya which forms the Galana River.


Tumut

Apparently from an Wiradjuri word meaning "quiet resting place by the river".


Swan River

Western Australia
Western Australia#English

A river which flows though Perth, Western Australia.

A river in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada.

A number of rivers in the United States:

A short tributary of the Blue River, Colorado.

Presque Isle County
Presque Isle County#English

A short river in Presque Isle County, Michigan.

A tributary of the Mississippi, in north-east Minnesota.

A tributary of the Mississippi, in central Minnesota.


Maribyrnong

/ˈmæɹɪbə(ɹ)nɒŋ/

A river in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.


North Two Oceans Creek

From being the northern of two creeks in the region of Two Oceans Pass. From being at a place where a continental divide crosses, letting waters falling therm enter different oceans. The creek is named for and flows into two different oceans.

Parting of the Waters
Parting of the Waters#English

Continental Divide
Continental Divide#English

A creek in the Parting of the Waters region, Two Oceans Pass region, Wyoming, United States, along the Continental Divide; which splits into two distributaries, Pacific Creek and Atlantic Creek at Parting of the Waters, eventually reaching both oceans. During spring flood, water levels rise enough to allow fish to swim across the continental divide.


Cross Creek

A stream and former railway settlement in the geographic region of Wairarapa, Wellington region, New Zealand, abandoned in 1955 on the opening of the Remutaka Tunnel.


Dunsop

A river in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England, a tributary of the River Hodder.


Vetluga

Transliteration of Russian Ветлуга (Vetluga), from Finno-Ugric languages.


Mill Creek

The name of a large number of streams, predominantly in the United States.


Panther Creek

A number of streams throughout the United States.


Tummel

Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross#English

A river in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, a tributary of the River Tay.


Truim

A river in Highland council area, Scotland, a tributary of the River Spey.


Gala Water

A river in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, which joins the Tweed near Galashiels.


South Esk

A river in Angus council area, Scotland, which flows into the North Sea.

A river in Midlothian council area, Scotland, a branch of the River Esk, East Lothian.

A river in northern Tasmania, Australia, which joins the North Esk.


Liddel Water

From Old English hlÿde + dæl, valley of the River Lid (loud one).

A river in the Scottish Borders council area and Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.


Dochart

A river in Stirling council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Tay at Killin.


Haw Creek

In Missouri at least, named for the presence of black haw.

A number of streams and townships in the United States:

A tributary of the Haw River, North Carolina.


Napanee

Greater Napanee
Napanee River
Napanee, Mississippi

Lennox and Addington County
Lennox and Addington County#English

Frontenac County
Frontenac County#English

A river in Lennox and Addington County and Frontenac County, Ontario.


Meander

Meander River (Tasmania)
Meander, Tasmania

A river in northern Tasmania, which joins the South Esk.


Maurice River

Maurice River
Maurice River Township
Maurice, Prince of Orange

Both are named after Maurice, Prince of Orange.

Cumberland County
Cumberland County#English

A river in Salem County and Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States, which flows into Delaware Bay.


Rangitata

A river in south Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean.


Bahlui

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bahlui.


Deep River

A river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.


Dinnebito Wash

A right tributary of the Little Colorado, Arizona, United States.


Thet

A river in Norfolk, England, which joins the Little Ouse at Thetford.


Little Ouse

A river of England in Suffolk and Norfolk, forming the county border for much of its length, with the last few miles bordering Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, before joining the Great Ouse north of Littleport.