laboratory

English

Alternative forms

• labouratory

Etymology

From Medieval Latin laboratorium

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA: /ˈlæbɹəˌtɔɹi/, IPA: /ləˈbɔɹəˌtɔɹi/ or IPA: /ləˈbɔɹətɹi/
• (UK) IPA: /ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹiː/

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• (US) IPA: /ˈlæbɹɪˌtɔɹi/

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Noun

laboratory (plural laboratories)

1. a room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis
2. a place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured

Translations

room, building or institution equipped for scientific research

• Afrikaans: laboratorium (af)
• Albanian: laborator (sq)
• Arabic: معمل (ar) (máʿmal) m
• Armenian: լաբորատորիա (hy) (laboratoria) 
• Azeri: laboratoriya (az)
• Bulgarian: лаборатория (bg) (laboratórija) f 
• Catalan: laboratori (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 實驗室 (cmn), 实验室 (cmn) (shíyànshì)

• Crimean Tatar: laboratoriya
• Czech: laboratoř (cs) f
• Dutch: laboratorium (nl) n, lab (nl) n, labo (nl) n
• Esperanto: laboratorio (eo), esplorejo (eo)
• Finnish: laboratorio (fi), labra (fi)
• French: laboratoire (fr) m
• German: Labor (de) n, Laboratorium (de) n
• Greek: εργαστήριο (el) (ergastério) m 
• Hebrew: מַעֲבָּדָה (he) (ma`abadá) f
• Hungarian: laboratórium (hu)
• Icelandic: rannsóknarstofa (is), tilraunastofa (is)
• Ido: laboratorio (io)

• Irish: saotharlainne (ga)
• Italian: laboratorio (it) m
• Japanese: 実験室 (ja) (じっけんしつ, jikkenshitsu), ラブ (ja) (rabu)
• Korean: 실험실 (ko) (sirheomsil) (實驗室 (ko)), 랩 (ko) (raep)
• Malay: makmal (ms)
• Persian: آزمایشگاه (fa) (âzmâyešgâh)
• Polish: laboratorium (pl) n
• Portuguese: laboratório (pt) m
• Romanian: laborator (ro) m
• Russian: лаборатория (ru) (laboratórija) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: deuchainn-lann (gd) m, obair-lann (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: laboràtōrij (sh) m
• Sotho: serupa (st)
• Spanish: laboratorio (es)
• Swahili: maabara (sw)
• Swedish: laboratorium (sv) n
• Telugu: ప్రయోగశాల (te) (prayOgaSaala)
• Thai: ห้องปฏิบัติการ (th) (haawngbpadtibatgaan)
• Turkish: laboratuvar (tr)
• Vietnamese: phòng thí nghiệm vi (vi)

place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured

• Albanian: laborator (sq)
• Armenian: լաբորատորիա (hy) (laboratoria) 
• Azeri: laboratoriya (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 研究室 (cmn) (yánjiūshì)

• Crimean Tatar: laboratoriya
• Czech: laboratoř (cs) f
• Dutch: laboratorium (nl) n
• Finnish: laboratorio (fi)
• French: laboratoire (fr) m
• German: Labor (de) n, Laboratorium (de) n
• Icelandic: rannsóknarstofu (is)
• Ido: laboratorio (io)
• Italian: laboratorio (it) m

• Japanese: 研究所 (ja) (けんきゅうじょ, kenkyūjo) m
• Korean: 연구소 (ko) (yeonguso) (研究所 (ko))
• Latin: laboratorium (la) n
• Polish: laboratorium (pl) n
• Portuguese: laboratório (pt) m
• Romanian: laborator (ro) m
• Russian: лаборатория (ru) (laboratórija) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: obair-lann (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: laboràtōrij (sh) m
• Swedish: laboratorium (sv) n
• Thai: ห้องทดลอง (th) (haawngthohtlaawng)
• Turkish: laboratuvar (tr)
• Vietnamese: phòng thí nghiệm (vi)

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Translations to be checked

• Maltese: laboratorju

See also

• Laboratory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia