inhaler

English

An inhaler

Etymology

inhale +‎ -er

Noun

inhaler (plural inhalers)

1. One who inhales.
   • 1963, Consumers Union of United States, Consumer reports, volume 28, page 277:

     The exposure of the mouse lungs to smoke was, of course, relatively mild as compared with the exposure of the lungs of a human smoke-inhaler who gets true cancer.

2. (medicine) A device with a canister holding medicine (either in powder or gas form) which is sprayed and inhaled by the patient, often for treating asthma and other respiratory diseases.

   Hyponyms: dry powder inhaler, metered-dose inhaler

   • 1976 April 10, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:

     Gay peep shows -- adult magazines, movies, locker room, inhalers.

Derived terms

• metered-dose inhaler
• dry powder inhaler

Translations

canister containing medicine

• Bulgarian: инхалатор m (inhalator)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吸入器 (zh) (xīrùqì), 噴藥器／喷药器 (pēnyàoqì)

• Czech: inhalátor m
• Danish: inhalator c
• Dutch: inhalator (nl)
• Finnish: inhalaattori (fi)
• French: inhalateur (fr) m
• German: Inhalator m
• Italian: inalatore m
• Japanese: 吸入器 (きゅうにゅうき, kyūnyūki)
• Macedonian: инхала́тор m (inhalátor), аероста́т m (aerostát)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: inhalator m

  Nynorsk: inhalator m

• Polish: inhalator (pl) m
• Portuguese: inalador m, bombinha f (informal)
• Romanian: inhalator (ro) n
• Russian: ингаля́тор (ru) m (ingaljátor)
• Spanish: inhalador m
• Swedish: inhalator (sv) c
• Tagalog: langhapan
• Turkish: inhalatör

See also

• antasthmatic
• antiemphysemic
• bronchodilatory

 

Anagrams

• hernial

Dutch

Etymology 1

From inhalen (“to overtake”) +‎ -er (agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnˌɦaː.lər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: in‧ha‧ler

Noun

inhaler c (plural inhalers, diminutive inhalertje n)

1. overtaker (a driver who overtakes another vehicle)

   Inhalers die de vluchtstrook gebruiken als inhaalstrook riskeren een forse boete.

   Overtakers who use the emergency lane as an overtaking lane risk a hefty fine.

Etymology 2

From English inhaler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɦeː.lər/
• Hyphenation: in‧ha‧ler

Noun

inhaler m (plural inhalers, diminutive inhalertje n)

1. inhaler

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.na.le/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: inhalé, inhalée, inhalées, inhalés, inhalez

Verb

inhaler

1. to inhale

Conjugation

Conjugation of inhaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	inhaler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	inhalant /i.na.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		inhalé /i.na.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	inhale /i.nal/	inhales /i.nal/	inhale /i.nal/	inhalons /i.na.lɔ̃/	inhalez /i.na.le/	inhalent /i.nal/
	imperfect	inhalais /i.na.lɛ/	inhalais /i.na.lɛ/	inhalait /i.na.lɛ/	inhalions /i.na.ljɔ̃/	inhaliez /i.na.lje/	inhalaient /i.na.lɛ/
	past historic2	inhalai /i.na.le/	inhalas /i.na.la/	inhala /i.na.la/	inhalâmes /i.na.lam/	inhalâtes /i.na.lat/	inhalèrent /i.na.lɛʁ/
	future	inhalerai /i.nal.ʁe/	inhaleras /i.nal.ʁa/	inhalera /i.nal.ʁa/	inhalerons /i.nal.ʁɔ̃/	inhalerez /i.nal.ʁe/	inhaleront /i.nal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inhalerais /i.nal.ʁɛ/	inhalerais /i.nal.ʁɛ/	inhalerait /i.nal.ʁɛ/	inhalerions /i.na.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	inhaleriez /i.na.lə.ʁje/	inhaleraient /i.nal.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	inhale /i.nal/	inhales /i.nal/	inhale /i.nal/	inhalions /i.na.ljɔ̃/	inhaliez /i.na.lje/	inhalent /i.nal/
	imperfect2	inhalasse /i.na.las/	inhalasses /i.na.las/	inhalât /i.na.la/	inhalassions /i.na.la.sjɔ̃/	inhalassiez /i.na.la.sje/	inhalassent /i.na.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	inhale /i.nal/	—	inhalons /i.na.lɔ̃/	inhalez /i.na.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

inhāler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of inhālō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

inhaler

1. imperative of inhalere