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For the town in Karnataka, India, see Wadi (Gulbarga).

For the town in Maharashtra, India, see Wadi (Maharashtra).

For the Australian Aboriginal war club, see Waddy.

A wadi (Template:Lang-ar Template:ArabDIN) is a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain. Compare arroyo (creek), Canyon and Gully.

The term Template:ArabDIN is very widely found in Arabic toponyms. Wadis tend to be associated with centers of human population because of the availability of sub-surface water.

Crossing wide wadis at certain times of the year can be very dangerous, because of unexpected flash floods. Such flash floods cause numerous deaths each year in Saudi Arabia and many other Middle Eastern countries.

In North Africa the French transcription oued is often used, although it is also employed to refer to true rivers. In southwestern Africa, the term rivier is used.

Some names of Spanish rivers are derived from Andalusi Arabic toponyms where Template:ArabDIN was used to mean a permanent river, for example Guadalquivir from al-wādī al-kabīr = "the great river".

List of Wadis

• Wādī al-Ḥaǧārah (Guadalajara), Spain
• Wadi Alei
• Wadi Alfa
• Wadi Allaqi, Aswan, Egypt
• Wadi Allaqi, Sudan
• Wadi Al'Mujib, Jordan
• Wadi abu-Hasah
• Wadi Alaui in Al Bahr a Ahmar
• Wadi Alku, Darfur, Sudan
• Wadi Arabah
• Wadi ash Sharqiyah, Sudan
• Wadi ash Shuqayq in Sudan
• Wadi Al-Joz or Nachal Kidron, cutting through Jerusalem).
• Wadi Digla
• Wadi El Assuti
• Wadi Elei
• Wadi el-Gaab
• Wadi Hadhramaut
• Wadi Kufra, Libya
• Wadi Matruh
• Wadi Qumran
• Wadi ar-Rabsia
• Wadi El Rayan
• Wadi Rum, Jordan
• Wadi Safra
• Wadi Bani Khalid
• Wadi Shab and Wadi Tiwi
• Wadi Al Abyadh
• Wadi Dhaiqah

• Arabic words
• Water streams
• Landforms