Yellow River

Etymology
, chiefly from the river's golden appearance as far west as Lanzhou caused by the enormous levels of silt it acquires from the Loess Plateau but also influenced by the color schema in wuxing ("Five Element") theory, which associates earth with the color, usually translated as "yellow" but also inclusive of shades modern English would consider golden, orange, brown, tan, etc. The earliest Chinese sources simply describe it as but it was later distinguished as the Yellow River after  began to replace  as a generic term for creeks and smaller rivers.

Proper noun

 * 1) The chief river of the North China Plain, currently flowing 5,463 km from the Bayan Har Mountains of Qinghai to the Bohai Sea but historically prone to massive floods which caused its course to vary widely over time.

Translations

 * Arabic: اَلنَّهْر اَلْأَصْفَر, خْوَانْغْخِي, هْوَانْغْهِي
 * Armenian: Հուանհե
 * Bengali: হলুদ নদী
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 黃河
 * Hakka: 黃河
 * Hokkien: 黃河
 * Literary Chinese: 河
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: Den Gule Flod
 * Dutch: Gele Rivier
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: río Amarelo
 * German:
 * Hindi: ह्वांगहो
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: Fiume Giallo
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: Сары өзен
 * Khmer: ​ទន្លេ​លឿង
 * Korean: ^황하(黃河)
 * Latin: Flumen Flavum, Croceus, Crocceus
 * Manchu: ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠩ ᡥᠣ ᠪᡳᡵᠠ
 * Mongolian: Шар мөрөн, Хатан гол
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Rio Amarelo, Huang He
 * Russian:, Жёлтая река́
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Хуанг Хо Хоангуо
 * Roman: Huang Ho Hoanguo
 * Spanish: Huang He, río Amarillo
 * Tagalog: Ilog na Dilaw
 * Thai: แม่น้ำฮวงโห
 * Tibetan: རྨ་ཆུ
 * Uyghur: سېرىق دەريا
 * Vietnamese: Hoàng Hà (黃河)
 * Zhuang: Dahvangzhoz