réservoir

See also: reservoir and Reservoir

French

Etymology

From réserver +‎ -oir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.zɛʁ.vwaʁ/

Noun

réservoir m (plural réservoirs)

1. reservoir
2. tank, cistern (container for liquids)

Descendants

• → Albanian: rezervuar
• → Belarusian: рэзервуа́р (rezjervuár), рэзэрвуа́р (rezervuár)
• → Bulgarian: резервоа́р (rezervoár)
• → Danish: reservoir
• → Dutch: reservoir
  • → Indonesian: rêsérvoir
• → English: reservoir
• → Finnish: reservoaari
• → German: Reservoir
• → Greek: ρεζερβουάρ (rezervouár)
• → Lithuanian: rezervuãras
• → Macedonian: резервоар (rezervoar)
• → Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: reservoar

  Norwegian Nynorsk: reservoar

• → Polish: rezerwuar
• → Romanian: rezervor
• → Russian: резервуа́р (rezervuár)
  • → Armenian: ռեզերվուար (ṙezervuar)
  • → Georgian: რეზერვუარი (rezervuari)
• → Serbo-Croatian: rezervòār / резерво̀а̄р
• → Spanish: reservorio
• → Swedish: reservoar
• → Turkish: rezervuar
• → Ukrainian: резервуа́р (rezervuár)

Further reading

• “réservoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012