aquifer

See also: Aquifer and aqüífer

English

From Latin aqua (“water”) + -fer (“-bearing”).

aquifer (plural aquifers)

An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.
The water in the well came from an aquifer.

an underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel

Arabic: طَبَقَة ٱلْمِيَاهِ ٱلْجَوْفِيَّةِ‎ f (ṭabaqa(t) l-miyāhi l-jawfiyyati)
Catalan: aqüífer (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 含水層／含水层 (zh) (hánshuǐcéng)
Dutch: aquifer (nl) m
Finnish: akviferi, pohjavesikerros
French: aquifère (fr) m
Galician: acuífero m
German: Grundwasserleiter m, Aquifer (de) m
Greek: υδροφορέας m (ydroforéas), υπόγειος υδροφορέας m (ypógeios ydroforéas)
Hebrew: אקוויפר‎ m
Hungarian: víztartó réteg
Indonesian: akuifer (id)
Irish: uiscíoch m
Japanese: 帯水層 (たいすいそう, taisuisō)
Korean: 대수층(帶水層) (daesucheung)
Lithuanian: vandeningas sluoksnis
Maori: paparanga kī wai, paparanga pukuwai
Navajo: łeeyiʼdi tóhígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: akvifer m, grunnvannsmagasin n
Polish: warstwa wodonośna f
Portuguese: aquífero (pt) m
Russian: водоно́сный горизо́нт (ru) m (vodonósnyj gorizónt), водоно́сный слой m (vodonósnyj sloj), водоно́сный пласт m (vodonósnyj plast), аквифе́р (ru) m (akvifɛ́r)
Slovak: akvifer m
Spanish: acuífero (es) m
Swedish: akvifär c
Telugu: జల (te) (jala)
Turkish: akifer (tr), sutaşır
Vietnamese: tầng ngậm nước, tầng chứa nước
Welsh: dyfrhaen f