cistern

Etymology
From, from (Modern French ) from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
 * 2) * 1913, A.C. Cotter, Catholic Encyclopedia, "Wells in Scripture",
 * Their extreme necessity is attested by the countless number of old, unused cisterns with which the Holy Land is literally honeycombed.
 * 1) In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
 * 2) A cisterna.
 * 3) The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine.
 * 1) A cisterna.
 * 2) The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine.

Translations

 * Albanian:, ,
 * Arabic: صِهْرِيج, فِنْطَاس, حَوْض
 * Armenian: ցիստերն
 * Azerbaijani: sistern
 * Belarusian: цыстэ́рна, бак, рэзервуа́р, рэзэрвуа́р
 * Bulgarian:, цисте́рна
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: cistierna
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , , , ,
 * Esperanto: akvujo, cisterno
 * Estonian: tsistern
 * Finnish: vesisäiliö, sadevesisäiliö
 * French:
 * Middle French: cisterne
 * Friulian: cistierne
 * Galician: canfurna, cisterna, ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: δεξαμενή, λάκκος, ἔλυτρον
 * Gujarati: ટાંકી, તળાવ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , हौज़
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: sistéal
 * Istriot: zustierna
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 貯水槽,
 * Kazakh: шанаш, цистерна
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: cisterna,
 * Latvian: cisterna
 * Lithuanian: cisterna
 * Macedonian: цистерна
 * Maori: kurawai
 * Middle English: cisterne
 * Ngazidja Comorian: isima
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sisterne, cisterne
 * Nynorsk: sisterne, cisterne
 * Persian: سیسترن,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian: chisterra, cisterra, gisterra
 * Scots: cistren
 * Scottish Gaelic: amar
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: цѝсте̄рна
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:, sterna
 * Slovak: cisterna, rezervoár
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: систерн, ҳавз
 * Thai: ถังน้ำ, แท็งก์น้ำ, ถังเก็บน้ำ
 * Tibetan: ཆུ་སྒྲོམ
 * Tigrinya:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: цисте́рна,, резервуа́р
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: seston, dyfrgist


 * Bulgarian: каза́нче
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, vesisäiliö
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sisterne, cisterne
 * Nynorsk: sisterne, cisterne
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * , tank