English
Pronunciation
Noun
water clock (plural water clocks)
- (chiefly historical) A device for measuring time using water, typically by measuring water flowing in or out of a basin of known size at a known rate.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Translations
device for measuring time
- Arabic: سَاعَةٌ مَائِيَّة f (sāʕatun māʔiyya)
- Armenian: ջրի ժամացույց (ǰri žamacʻuycʻ)
- Azerbaijani: su saatı
- Belarusian: вадзяны́ гадзі́ннік m (vadzjaný hadzínnik)
- Bulgarian: во́ден часо́вник m (vóden časóvnik)
- Catalan: clepsidra f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 滴漏 (zh) (dīlòu), 金壺 / 金壶 (jīnhú), 刻漏 (zh) (kèlòu), 漏壺 / 漏壶 (zh) (lòuhú), 漏刻 (zh) (lòukè), 水漏 (zh) (shuǐlòu), 銅壺 / 铜壶 (zh) (tónghú), 懸泉 / 悬泉 (zh) (xuánquán), 水鐘 / 水钟 (shuǐzhōng)
- Czech: vodní hodiny f pl
- Dutch: wateruuwerk n
- Esperanto: akvohorloĝo
- Estonian: veekell
- Finnish: vesikello (fi), klepsydra (fi)
- French: clepsydre (fr) f
- German: Wasseruhr (de) f
- Greek: κλεψύδρα (el) f (klepsýdra)
- Ancient Greek: κλεψύδρα f (klepsúdra)
- Hebrew: שְׁעוֹן מַיִם (he) m (she'ón máyim)
- Hungarian: vízóra (hu)
- Italian: clessidra (it) f
- Japanese: 水時計 (ja) (みずどけい, mizudokei)
- Korean: 물시계 (ko) (mulsigye)
- Lao: ນາລິການ້ຳ (nā li kā nam)
- Latin: clepsydra f
- Lithuanian: vandens laikodris m
- Macedonian: клепси́дра f (klepsídra), воден часовник m (voden časovnik)
- Malay: jam air
- Persian: ساعت آبی (sâ'at-e âbi), پنگان (fa) (pangân)
- Polish: zegar wodny m
- Portuguese: clepsidra (pt) f
- Russian: водяны́е часы́ m pl (vodjanýje časý), клепси́дра (ru) f (klepsídra)
- Slovene: vodna ura f, klepsydra f
- Spanish: reloj de agua m, clepsidra (es) f
- Swedish: vattenur n
- Thai: นาฬิกาน้ำ (naa-lí-gaa-náam)
- Turkish: su saati (tr)
- Ukrainian: водяни́й годи́нник m (vodjanýj hodýnnyk), клепси́дра (uk) f (klepsýdra)
- Vietnamese: đồng hồ nước
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