Paraguay

Borrowed from Guaraní Paraguay, formed either from para (“sea”) + gúa (“bordering”) or from paraguã (“crown of feathers”) + y (“river”).

Paraguay River (a major river in South America)


Uruguay

Disputed, either:
* Guaraní urugua y (literally “water shellfish”), from urugua (“shellfish”) + y (“water”); or
* Guaraní uru gua y (literally “type of water bird”) from uru (“type of bird”) + gua (“from”) + y (“water”).

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Uruguay River (a major river in South America)


Congo

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Congo (a major river in Central Africa which flows for about 4,380 km (2,720 miles) to the Atlantic Ocean in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at times forming the border with the Republic of the Congo and Angola)


Amazonas

→⇒ Ye'kwana: Amasonanña


Paraná

Borrowed from Old Tupi paranã (“river”).

Paraná (a river in central and southern South America)


Cali

From Calima, a pre-Columbian culture, itself from a native (possibly Cariban) language.


Huang He

Yellow River, Huang He (a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions)


Paz

paz (“peace”), shortened from María (de la) Paz, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Peace" .


Indo

Borrowed from Latin Indus, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿduš), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sindʰus or Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu).

Indus (a large river in south-central Asia, rising in China (Tibet) and flowing through India and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea)


Níger

Niger (a major river in West Africa that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria)


Jordán

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)


Loira

Loire (the longest river in France, passing (from southeast to northwest) through the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Cher, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique)


Sella

Sella (a river in Asturias, starting in the Picos de Europa and flowing into the Bay of Biscay)


Kamchatka

Borrowed from Russian Камча́тка (Kamčátka).

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(with the) Kamchatka (a river in Kamchatka Krai, Russia)


Elba

Elbe (a major river in central Europe that passes through the Czech Republic and Germany before flowing into the North Sea)


Mosa

Meuse, Maas (a major river that flows about 901 km (560 mi) from France through Belgium and the Netherlands to the North Sea)


Coatzacoalcos

From Classical Nahuatl cōātl (“snake”) + tzacualli (“enclosure, something covered”) + -co (“a locative suffix”).

Coatzacoalcos (a large river which flows through the city of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, and into the Gulf of Mexico)


Guadalquivir

From Arabic الوَادِي الكَبِير (al-wādī l-kabīr, literally “the great river”).

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Guadalquivir (a river in southern Spain)


Ródano

Rhone, Rhône (a major river in Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea)


Guadiana

Inherited from Old Spanish Aguadiana, derived from Arabic وَادِي (wādī, “river, valley”) + Latin Anās (ancient name of the river), related to anas (“duck”).

Guadiana (a major river in Spain and Portugal)


Ardecha

Ardèche (a right tributary of the Rhône, in the departments of Ardèche and Gard, south-central France)


Mosela

Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany)


Quindío

→ English: Quindío


Ica

→ Russian: И́ка (Íka)


Chubut

[t͡ʃuˈβ̞ut̪]


Júcar

Júcar (a river in Spain). It flows through the provinces of Cuenca, Albacete and Valencia


Prípiat

Pripyat (a river in Eastern Europe, flowing east through Ukraine and Belarus, draining into the Dnieper)


Rímac

English: Rimac

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→ Chinese: 里馬克 (Lǐmǎkè) (transliteration)

From Quechua rimaq. Doublet of Lima, an older borrowing.


Ucayali

Latin: ucayalēnsis

a river in Peru, a major source of the Amazon


Huallaga

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

a river in Peru, a tributary of the Marañón.


Marañón

Uncertain. Possibly from Old Tupi, meaning "running sea", or an augmentative of mar (“sea”). The word was first used to refer to the Amazon River.

a river in Peru, a tributary of the Amazon.


Dordoña

Dordogne (a long river in south-central and southwestern France, emptying into the Gironde estuary, flowing through the departments of Puy-de-Dôme, Corrèze, Lot, Dordogne and Gironde)


Palena

Uncertain. Possibly from Italian Palena, or from earlier río de la Ballena (literally “river of the whale”).


Vaupés

a river in Colombia, a tributary of the Río Negro


Río de la Plata

→ English: River Plate (calque), → Río de la Plata, Rio de la Plata


Cagayán

a river in northeastern Luzon, Philippines

a river in northern Mindanao, Philippines


río Amarillo

Yellow River, Huang He (a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions)


Acelhuate

From Pipil atzelwia (“irrigated land”) + at (“water”).


Comalapa

From Classical Nahuatl comalli (“pan used to grill tortillas”) + atl (“water”) + -pan.


Lenne

A toponym for rivers and settlements in Germany


Tinto

a river in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, which flows into the Huelva estuary.


Futaleufú

Borrowed from Mapudungun [Term?] (literally “great river”).