Dictionary

noria en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈnɔː.ɹɪə/ (UK)
• (US) audio
• /ˈnɔɹ.i.ə/ (US)

Etymology

From Spanish noria, from Arabic نَاعُورَة (nāʕūra), from Classical Syriac ܢܥܘܪܬܐ (nāʿōrtāʾ, “water wheel; growler”), from ܢܥܪ (nʿar, “to roar, growl, bray”).

Meanings

1. A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.
2. Any mechanism using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.
   • The "Noria" pump is a bucket-and-chain arrangement, well known, I believe, in the Cape Colony as the "bakkies" pump; it is very effective for it lifts from 10 feet to 30 feet. 1901 October 11, Colonel F. V. Corbett, “Report on Irrigation in Natal”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 16, page 492:

Forms

Synonyms

water wheel (water wheel)

Translations (18)

it noria (a water wheel with buckets) · es noria (any machine using buckets) · syc ܢܥܘܪܬܐ (a water wheel with buckets) · ru ковшовый элеватор (a water wheel with buckets) · pt nora (a water wheel with buckets) · ar نَاعُورَة (a water wheel with buckets) · fr noria (a water wheel with buckets) · pl noria (a water wheel with buckets) · uz charxpalak (a water wheel with buckets) · ca sínia (any machine using buckets) · fr noria (any machine using buckets) · de Schöpfwerk (any machine using buckets) · ru нория (a water wheel with buckets) · pl koło wodne (any machine using buckets) · es noria (a water wheel with buckets) · ca sínia (a water wheel with buckets) · cs zdvižné čerpadlo (a water wheel with buckets) · ota صو طولابی (a water wheel with buckets)