Asia
- Amur: Mongolian "rest"
- Angara: Buryat angarkhai "the mouth of a wild beast"
- Aravand-rud: Persian "fast river"
- Brahmaputra: Sanskrit "son of Brahma"
- Chang Jiang: Chinese "long river"
- Yangtze: Chinese "ocean child"
- Dongjiang: Chinese "east river"
- Euphrates River: Avestan "good to cross over"
- Ganges: Sanskrit Ganga
- Huang He: Chinese "yellow river"
- Indus River: Sanskrit Sindhu generically means "river, stream, ocean"
- Kherlen: Mongolian "hederated"
- Mekong: Thai Mae Khong (แม่ โขง), "mother of all rivers"
- Ob: Komi "snow, snowdrift, place of snow"
- Pearl River (Chinese – Zhu Jiang): named after a sandy or stony island in the middle of the river called "Sea Pearl" (now reduced to a bank in the river)
- Sefid-rud: Persian "White river"
- Selenge: Mongolian ""for swimming"
- Tigris River: Sumerian "running water"/Greek "tiger"
- Wang Thong: From Thai วังทอง, "Gold Palace"
- Red River
Read more about this topic: List Of River Name Etymologies
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