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English
Etymology
From Middle English drinkable, drynkeable, equivalent to drink + -able.
Adjective
drinkable (comparative more drinkable, superlative most drinkable)
- Able to be drunk (as liquid).
- (of water) Safe to drink.
- (of an alcoholic beverage, especially wine) Of good or satisfactory quality.
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Translations
safe to drink
- Belarusian: пі́тны (pítny)
- Bulgarian: питеен (piteen), годен за пиене (goden za piene)
- Catalan: potable
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 可飲用的／可饮用的 (zh) (kě yǐnyòng de)
- Czech: pitný (cs)
- Danish: drikkelig
- Dutch: drinkbaar (nl)
- Esperanto: trinkebla
- Finnish: juomakelpoinen, juotava (fi)
- French: potable (fr) m or f, buvable (fr)
- Friulian: potabil
- Galician: potable (gl) m or f
- Georgian: დასალევად ვარგისი (dasalevad vargisi), სასმელად ვარგისი (sasmelad vargisi), დალევადი (dalevadi) (nonstandard), სმადი (smadi) (nonstandard)
- German: trinkbar (de), Trink- (de)
- Greek: πόσιμος (el) m (pósimos)
- Hungarian: iható (hu)
- Italian: potabile (it) m or f
- Latin: poculentus
- Macedonian: пи́ток m (pítok), пи́тка f (pítka), пи́тко n (pítko)
- Manx: yn-iu, iuoil
- Mauritian Creole: potab
- Norman: potabl'ye (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: drikkelig, drikkbar
- Nynorsk: drikkbar
- Piedmontese: beivìbil
- Plautdietsch: drinkjboa
- Polish: pitny (pl)
- Portuguese: potável (pt), bebível (pt)
- Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: potabil (ro)
- Russian: питьево́й (ru) (pitʹjevój)
- Spanish: potable (es), bebedizo, bebible, bebestible (informal, humorous)
- Tausug: mainum
- Ukrainian: питни́й (pytnýj)
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of good or satisfactory quality
Noun
drinkable (plural drinkables)
- (chiefly in the plural) That which can be drunk.
1931, Qassim Ali Jairazbhoy, Fear Allah and take your own part, page 112:During the course of the day we know how to face acute hunger, and learn the value of abstaining from using our eatables and drinkables.
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