water wheel

See also: waterwheel

English

Alternative forms

• waterwheel
• water-wheel

Noun

water wheel (plural water wheels)

1. A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.

   Hyponyms: flutter wheel, millwheel, tub wheel

   Coordinate term: turbine

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278:

     "Yes, yes, I'll tell you the road directly, it's it's straight on through the wood till you come to the big water-wheel!"

   • 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:

     Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

2. A wheel with buckets used to raise water.

   Coordinate term: Archimedes' screw

Synonyms

• (wheel with buckets): noria

Translations

wheel propelled by water

• Afrikaans: waterwiel
• Arabic:

  Sudanese Arabic: ساقية (sāgiya)

• Belarusian: вадзяное кола n (vadzjanóje kóla)
• Bulgarian: водно колело n (vodno kolelo)
• Catalan: roda hidràulica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水車／水车 (zh) (shuǐchē), 水輪／水轮 (zh) (shuǐlún)

• Czech: vodní kolo n
• Danish: møllehjul
• Dutch: waterrad (nl)
• Esperanto: akvorado
• Finnish: vesipyörä (fi)
• French: roue à aubes (fr) f
• Galician: rodicio m
• Georgian: წყლის ბორბალი (c̣q̇lis borbali)
• German: Wasserrad (de) n
• Hebrew: גלגל מים
• Hindi: पनचक्की (hi) (pancakkī)
• Hunsrik: Wasserraat n
• Icelandic: vatnshjól
• Indonesian: kincir air (id)
• Italian: bindolo (it) m, ruota idraulica f
• Japanese: 水車 (ja) (すいしゃ, suisha)
• Korean: 수차 (ko) (sucha)
• Latvian: ūdensrats
• Lithuanian: vandens ratas
• Marathi: पाणचक्की f (pāṇcakkī)
• Norwegian: vannhjul
• Old English: hlædhwēol n, hlædtrendel m
• Ottoman Turkish: طولاب (dolab)
• Persian: چرخ آبی
• Polish: koło wodne (pl) n
• Portuguese: roda de água f
• Russian: водяно́е колесо́ (ru) n (vodjanóje kolesó)
• Serbo-Croatian: vodeničko kolo n
• Slovak: vodné koleso n
• Spanish: rueda hidráulica f
• Swedish: vattenhjul (sv)
• Tagalog: lagumba
• Turkish: su çarkı
• Ukrainian: водяне колесо n (vodjane koleso)
• Vietnamese: bánh xe nước

wheel to raise water

• Azerbaijani: dolab
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水輪／水轮 (zh) (shuǐlún)

• Finnish: vesipyörä (fi)
• Indonesian: kincir air (id)
• Ottoman Turkish: صو طولابی (su dolabı)
• Persian: دولابه
• Spanish: azud (es) m or f, azuda f, aceña (es) f, noria (es) f, aguaducho (es) m, ceña (es) f, cenia f