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Aa (ä) [from a word for "water" of the same Indo-European root as Lat. aqua], name of many small streams of N Europe and Switzerland. Aa, or a derivative of it, is a component part of hundreds of European place names.



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An abbreviation for the Greek term ana, used in prescription writing, meaning “of each.”

Aa River may refer to:

  • Aa River (France), a river in northern France
  • Aa River (Meuse), a river in North Brabant, Netherlands
  • Aa of Weerijs, a river in North Brabant, Netherlands
  • Drentsche Aa, a river in Drenthe and Groningen, Netherlands
  • Aabach (Greifensee), or Ustermer Aa, a river in Switzerland
  • Sarner Aa, a tributary of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland
  • Aabach (Afte), formerly called the Große Aa, a river in Germany
  • Aa (Möhne), a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Aa (Nethe), a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Aa (Werre), a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Aa, a river in Antwerp, Belgium which joins the Nete River
  • Große Aa, a river in Lower Saxony, Germany
  • Münstersche Aa, a river in Germany, one of several Westphalian rivers called Aa

Former names

  • Gauja, a river in Latvia, formerly known as Livländische Aa
  • Lielupe, a river in Latvia, formerly known as Kurländische Aa

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