alluvium

English

alluvium (plural alluviums or alluvia)

soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
Synonyms: alluvion, alluvial deposit

deposited material

Japanese: 沖積層 (ちゅうせきそう, chūsekisō)
Korean: 충적층 (chungjeokcheung) (沖積層)
Macedonian: на́нос m (nános)
Malayalam: സൈകതം (ml) (saikataṃ), മണൽതിട്ട (maṇaltiṭṭa)
Maori: parahua, kotae, kotau
Persian: آبرفت‎ (fa) (âbroft)
Portuguese: aluvião (pt) m or f, alúvio m
Russian: аллю́вий (ru) m (alljúvij), нано́с (ru) m (nanós)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: а̀лӯвиј m, а̀лӯвија f

Roman: àlūvij (sh) m, àlūvija (sh) f
Spanish: aluvión (es) m
Swedish: alluvialavlagring c, alluvium (sv) n
Tamil: ஆற்றுவண்டல் (āṟṟuvaṇṭal)
Vietnamese: bồi tích, trầm tích phù sa, trầm tích sông

alluvium

alluvium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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