water cycle

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Noun

water cycle (plural water cycles)

1. The natural cycle of evaporation of water from the oceans etc, and subsequent condensation and precipitation as rain and snow

Translations

the natural cycle of water through evaporation, condensation and precipitation

• Amharic: የውሃ ኡደት (yäwha ʾudät)
• Azerbaijani: su dövranı
• Basque: uraren zikloa
• Catalan: cicle hidrològic m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 水循环 (chúi-sûn-khoân)

  Mandarin: 水循环 (zh) (shuǐxúnhuán)

• Dutch: waterkringloop (nl) m
• Esperanto: ciklo de akvo
• Finnish: veden kiertokulku
• French: cycle de l'eau (fr) m
• Galician: ciclo da auga m, ciclo hidrolóxico m
• Georgian: წყლის წრებრუნვა (c̣q̇lis c̣rebrunva)
• German: Wasserkreislauf (de) m
• Gujarati: જળ ચક્ર (jaḷ cakra)
• Hindi: जल चक्र m (jal cakra)
• Icelandic: hringrás vatns f
• Igbo: etemete mmírí
• Irish: timthriall an uisce m, timthriall hidreolaíoch m
• Italian: ciclo dell'acqua m, ciclo idrologico m
• Kannada: ಜಲ ಚಕ್ರ (jala cakra)
• Kazakh: табиғаттағы су айналымы (tabiğattağy su ainalymy)
• Latgalian: iudiņa cyklys
• Malay: kitaran air
• Māori: hurihanga wai
• Marathi: जलचक्र (jalcakra)
• Norwegian: vannets kretsløp n
• Portuguese: ciclo da água m, ciclo hidrológico m
• Punjabi: ਜਲ ਚੱਕਰ (jal cakkar)
• Quechua: yaku muyuriy
• Russian: гидрологи́ческий цикл m (gidrologíčeskij cikl), круговоро́т воды́ в приро́де m (krugovorót vodý v priróde)
• Shona: nhevedzwa dzemvura
• Spanish: ciclo del agua m, ciclo hidrológico m
• Sundanese: ᮓᮅᮁ ᮎᮄ (daur cai)
• Swedish: vattnets kretslopp n
• Tamil: நீர் சுழற்சி (nīr cuḻaṟci)
• Telugu: జలచక్రం (te) (jalacakraṁ)
• Tibetan: ཆུ་ཁམས་འཁོར་སྐྱོད། (chu khams 'khor skyod)
• Vietnamese: vòng tuần hoàn nước