chyme

English

Alternative forms

• chymus

Etymology

From Late Latin chymus, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɪm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

chyme (usually uncountable, plural chymes)

1. The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.

Derived terms

• chymous

Translations

partly digested food passed from the stomach to the duodenum

• Arabic: كيموس m (kayamus)
• Basque: kimo
• Belarusian: хімус m (ximus)
• Bengali: পাকমণ্ড (pakmonḍo)
• Bulgarian: химус m (himus)
• Catalan: quim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 食糜 (sik⁶ mei⁴)

  Mandarin: 食糜 (zh) (shímí)

• Czech: trávenina f
• Esperanto: ĥimo
• Finnish: ruokasula (fi)
• French: chyme (fr) m
• Galician: quimo m
• German: Chymus m
• Haitian Creole: chim
• Hungarian: gyomortartalom (hu), ételpép sg, gyomorpép, bélbennék sg
• Icelandic: fæðumauk n
• Ido: chimo (io)
• Indonesian: kimus (id)
• Italian: chimo (it) m
• Japanese: 糜粥 (ja) (びじゃく, bijaku)
• Kazakh: химус (ximus)
• Korean: 유미즙(乳縻汁) (yumijeup)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kîmos f

• Latvian: hīms m
• Malay: kim
• Persian: کیموس (fa)
• Portuguese: quimo m
• Russian: хи́мус (ru) (xímus)
• Spanish: quimo (es) m
• Swedish: kymus (sv)
• Tagalog: kimo
• Ukrainian: хі́мус m (xímus)
• Vietnamese: nhũ chấp
• Welsh: treulfwyd m

Anagrams

• chemy

French

Etymology

From Late Latin chymus, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃim/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

chyme m (plural chymes)

1. chyme

Descendants

• → Romanian: chim

Further reading

• “chyme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.