Irish word senses marked with place category "Bodies of water"
Parent categories: Ecosystems, Landforms, Water, Ecology, Earth, Places, Liquids, Biology, Nature, Names, Matter, Sciences, Chemistry
Subcategories: Bays, Lakes, Rivers, Seas, Straits, Wetlands
Total 83 word senses
- Abhainn San Labhrás (Proper name) Saint Lawrence River (a river in Canada)
- Aigéan Antartach (Proper name) the Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean
- Aigéan Artach (Proper name) the Arctic Ocean
- Aigéan Atlantach (Proper name) the Atlantic Ocean
- Aigéan Ciúin (Proper name) the Pacific Ocean
- Aigéan Indiach (Proper name) the Indian Ocean
- Amasóin (Noun) Amazon
- Amasóin (Proper name) The Amazon
- Bailt (Proper name) the Baltic (sea, region)
- Baltach (Adjective) Baltic (a sea in Northern Europe)
- Bandan (Proper name) Bandon (a river in County Cork, Ireland)
- Bearú (Proper name) the Barrow, a river in southeastern Ireland
- Bóinn (Proper name) Boyne (a river in Leinster, Ireland).
- Ciúin-Aigéan (Proper name) Alternative form of An tAigéan Ciúin (“Pacific Ocean”)
- Congó (Proper name) Congo (a large river in Africa, which flows for about 4,380 km (2,720 miles) to the Atlantic Ocean in the Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Cuan na Gaillimhe (Proper name) Galway Bay (a bay off the west coast of Ireland)
- Danóib (Proper name) the Danube
- Dnípir (Proper name) The Dnieper
- Dnístir (Proper name) the Dniester
- Dothra (Proper name) the Dodder (a river in County Dublin, Ireland)
- Drobhaois (Proper name) Drowes (a river which runs between County Donegal and County Leitrim, Ireland)
- Eabró (Proper name) The Ebro
- Eilbe (Proper name) The Elbe River
- Féil (Proper name) Feale (a river in County Limerick and County Kerry)
- Gainséis (Proper name) The Ganges River
- Iondúis (Proper name) the Indus River
- Iordáin (Proper name) Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)
- Laoi (Proper name) Lee (A river in County Cork, flowing from the Shehy Mountains in the west eastwards to Cork Harbour before emptying into the Celtic Sea)
- Life (Proper name) Liffey (a river in Ireland)
- Loch nEathach (Proper name) Lough Neagh (a lake in Northern Ireland)
- Meánmhuir (Proper name) the Mediterranean Sea
- Muaidh (Proper name) the Moy
- Muir Bhailt (Proper name) the Baltic Sea
- Muir Bheiring (Proper name) the Bering Sea
- Muir Bhreatan (Proper name) St George's Channel (a strait connecting the Irish Sea to the Atlantic Ocean)
- Muir nIocht (Proper name) the English Channel (a strait in the Atlantic Ocean)
- Muir Éireann (Proper name) The Irish Sea
- Nígir (Proper name) Niger (a major river in West Africa, that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria)
- Níl (Proper name) The Nile
- Oranócó (Proper name) The Orinoco
- Réin (Proper name) Rhine (a river in western Europe)
- Sabhrainn (Proper name) the Severn
- Sionainn (Proper name) the Shannon
- Tamais (Proper name) the Thames
- abhainn (Noun) river
- aigéan (Noun) ocean
- bogach (Noun) swamp
- bogach (Noun) quagmire
- bogach (Noun) bog
- bogach (Noun) moor
- cainéal (Noun) channel (on television etc.)
- canáil (Noun) canal
- caol (Noun) narrow water, strait
- corcach (Noun) marsh, swamp
- corrach (Noun) wet bog, marsh
- cuan (Noun) Alternative form of cuain (“litter; brood; pack; band, company”)
- dabhach (Noun) vat, tub
- dabhaich (Noun) Alternative form of dabhach
- eanach (Noun) marsh, swamp, fen
- farraige (Noun) billow, swell
- fo-abhainn (Noun) affluent, tributary (of river)
- gaoth (Noun) hint, suggestion
- gaoth (Noun) inlet of sea, estuary
- glas (Noun) rivulet, stream
- góilín (Noun) inlet, creek, gullet (channel for water)
- lagphortach (Noun) cutaway bog
- linn (Noun) pool, pond; body of water, lake, sea
- linntreog (Noun) small puddle, pool
- loch (Noun) lake
- loch salainn (Noun) salt lake
- lochán (Noun) pond, pool, small lake
- moing (Noun) long hair
- muir (Noun) sea
- muir (Noun) mare
- port (Noun) mound, embankment
- riasc (Noun) marsh, fen, moor
- riasc (Noun) Alternative form of riast
- seascann (Noun) marsh, swamp, bog, fen, morass, slough
- sreabhán (Noun) fluid (any state of matter which can flow; liquid)
- sruth (Noun) current, mains
- sruthlán (Noun) Alternative form of sruthlach (“dirty, untidy, person”)
- sruthán (Noun) stream; rivulet, brook
- sruthán (Noun) Alternative form of sruán (“griddle-cake; cockle”)
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