quinine

English

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Etymology

From Spanish quina (“cinchona bark”), from Quechua kina.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkwaɪnaɪn/

Noun

quinine (uncountable)

1. (pharmacology) A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 2/9/1, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days^[1]:

     He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

Translations

alkaloid used to treat malaria

• Catalan: quinina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奎寧 (cmn) (kuíníng)

• Czech: chinin (cs) m
• Danish: kinin (da)
• Dutch: kinine (nl)
• Esperanto: kinino (eo)
• Finnish: kiniini (fi)
• French: quinine (fr) f
• German: Chinin (de) n
• Icelandic: kínín (is) n
• Ido: quinino (io)

• Irish: quinín (ga) m
• Italian: chinino (it)
• Japanese: キニーネ (ja) (kinīne)
• Polish: chinina (pl)
• Portuguese: quinina (pt)
• Russian: хинин (ru) (xinín) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кѝнӣн (sh) m

  Roman: kìnīn (sh) m

• Slovak: chinín (sk)
• Slovene: kinín (sl) m
• Spanish: quinina (es) f

See also

• Jesuit's bark

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French

Noun

quinine f (plural quinines)

1. quinine

References

• “quinine” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).