vitamin C

English

Noun

vitamin C (uncountable)

1. The L-enantiomer of ascorbic acid, a water-soluble nutrient essential for life, synthesized by most animals and plants but not humans, although used in our bodies for many purposes. It is plentiful in citrus fruits and many vegetables, and a deficiency causes scurvy.

Synonyms

• E300 when used as an antioxidant

Translations

L-enantiomer of ascorbic acid

• Arabic: فيتامين سي, فيتامين ج
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 維生素C／维生素C (zh) (wéishēngsù-C)

• Danish: C-vitamin n
• Finnish: C-vitamiini (fi)
• French: vitamine C (fr) f
• Georgian: C ვიტამინი (C viṭamini), ვიტამინი C (viṭamini C)
• Hungarian: C-vitamin (hu)
• Icelandic: C-vítamín n
• Indonesian: vitamin C (id)
• Japanese: ビタミンC (bitaminshī)
• Korean: 비타민 C (bitamin C)
• Polish: witamina C f
• Portuguese: vitamina C f
• Russian: витами́н C m (vitamín C)
• Spanish: vitamina C f
• Swahili: vitamini C
• Tagalog: bitamina C
• Turkish: C vitamini

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈtamin ˈt͡ʃe/, [fiˈt̪a.mɪɲ ˈt͡ʃe]

Noun

vitamin C

1. vitamin C

Synonyms

• asam askorbat
• asid askorbik (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “vitamin C” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.