真ま清水しみず

noun

pure water; clear water

Often used in poetic or literary descriptions of pristine natural water, such as a mountain spring or a clear stream. The prefix 真 (ま) adds a sense of genuine, untainted purity.

• 山やま奥おくの真ま清水しみずで喉のどを潤うるおした。

  I quenched my thirst with the pure water deep in the mountains.

• この地ちには真ま清水しみずが湧わき出でている。

  Clear water springs forth in this land.