Etymology
From sewer (“system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage”) + -age or from sew (“to drain or draw off water”) + -age.
Noun
sewage (countable and uncountable, plural sewages)
- A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
- (obsolete) sewerage.
Translations
suspension of water and waste
- Azerbaijani: lağım, gəndov
- Bulgarian: канални води f pl (kanalni vodi)
- Catalan: aigües negres f pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 污水 (zh) (wūshuǐ)
- Czech: splašky m pl
- Dutch: afvalwater (nl) n, rioolwater (nl) n
- Esperanto: rubakvo, kloakaĵo
- Finnish: jätevesi (fi)
- French: eaux usées (fr) f pl
- German: Abwasser (de) n
- Greek: λύματα (el) n pl (lýmata)
- Ido: kloakajo
- Indonesian: air limbah (id)
- Irish: múnlach m
- Italian: liquame
- Japanese: 汚水 (ja) (おすい, osui)
- Macedonian: канализа́ција f (kanalizácija)
- Malay: kumbahan
- Malayalam: മലിനജലം (malinajalaṁ)
- Maori: wai parakaingaki, parakaingaki, waihawa
- Navajo: tóchxǫ́ʼį́, tóchxǫ́ʼí
- Persian: گنداب (fa) (gandâb)
- Polish: ścieki (pl) m pl
- Portuguese: esgoto (pt) m
- Russian: сто́чные во́ды (ru) f pl (stóčnyje vódy)
- Spanish: aguas residuales f pl, agua cloacal f, lodo cloacal m
- Swahili: maji taka (sw)
- Swedish: avloppsvatten (sv) n
- Turkish: lağım (tr), atık su (tr)
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See also
- slop
- sludge
- sewer system
- sewage treatment
- waste management
