albumen

See also: albúmen

English

Etymology

From Latin albūmen (“white of an egg”), from albus (“white”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈælbjʊmən/, /ælˈbjuːmən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈalbjʊmɪn/

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• Rhymes: -uːmən
• Hyphenation: al‧bu‧men

Noun

albumen (countable and uncountable, plural albumens or albumina)

1. The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.

   Synonyms: egg white, glair

   Coordinate term: yolk

Related terms

• albumin

Translations

white part of an egg

• Arabic: غِرْقِل‎ m (ḡirqil), آح البَيْض‎ m (ʔāḥ al-bayḍ), زُلَال‎ m (zulāl)

  Moroccan Arabic: بياض البيض‎ (byāḍ el-bayḍ, byāḍ el-bīḍ)

• Armenian: սպիտակուց (hy) (spitakucʿ)
• Belarusian: бяло́к m (bjalók)
• Bengali: সফেদী (sophedī)
• Bulgarian: белтък (bg) m (beltǎk)
• Catalan: albumen (ca) m, clara (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蛋白 (daan^6-2 baak⁶)

  Mandarin: 蛋白 (zh) (dànbái)

• Czech: bílek (cs) m
• Danish: hvide c, æggehvide (da) c
• Dutch: eiwit (nl) n
• Esperanto: albumeno
• Faroese: hvíti m, eggjahvíti m
• Finnish: valkuainen (fi), munanvalkuainen (fi)
• French: glaire (fr), blanc d’œuf (fr) m, blanc (fr)
• Galician: clara f, albume m
• German: Eiweiß (de) n
• Greek: λεύκωμα (el) n (léfkoma), ασπράδι (el) n (asprádi)
• Hebrew: חֶלְבּוֹן‎ (he) m (khelbón)
• Hungarian: tojásfehérje (hu)
• Icelandic: eggjahvíta (is) f, hvíta í eggi f
• Ido: albumeno (io)
• Indonesian: putih telur (id)
• Irish: gealacán m, gealacán uibhe m, albaimín m
• Italian: albume (it) m, chiara (it) f, bianco d'uovo m
• Japanese: 卵白 (ja) (らんぱく, ranpaku), 白身 (ja) (しろみ, shiromi), 蛋白 (ja) (たんぱく, tanpaku)
• Korean: 흰자위 (huinjawi), 난백(卵白) (nanbaek), 단백(蛋白) (ko) (danbaek)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سپێنە‎ (ku) (spêne)

  Northern Kurdish: spîk (ku) f, spîçk (ku) f

• Latin: albūmen, albāmentum
• Macedonian: белка f (belka)
• Malay: albumen, putih telur (ms)
• Maltese: l-abjad tal-bajd
• Mongolian: уураг (mn) (uurag)
• Norman: blianc d'oeu m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eggehvite m, eggekvite m

  Nynorsk: eggekvite f

• Plautdietsch: Eiawitt n, Wits m
• Polish: białko (pl) n
• Portuguese: clara (pt) f
• Romanian: albuș (ro) n
• Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) alv d'ov f, (Puter) alv d'öv f, (Vallader) alb d'öv f, (Sursilvan) clar d'iev f, (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) cler d'ov f, (Puter, Vallader) cler d'öv f
• Russian: бело́к (ru) m (belók)
• Scottish Gaelic: gealagan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: беланце n, бјеланце n, белањак m, бјелањак m, беланац m, бјеланац m

  Roman: belance (sh) n, bjelance (sh) n, belanjak (sh) m, bjelanjak (sh) m, belanac m, bjelanac m

• Slovak: bielok m
• Slovene: beljak (sl) m
• Spanish: albumen (es) f, clara (es) f
• Swedish: äggvita (sv) c, vita (sv) c
• Thai: ไข่ขาว (th) (khaì khaǎo)
• Turkish: yumurta akı (tr)
• Ukrainian: біло́к (uk) m (bilók), яє́чний біло́к m (jajéčnyj bilók)
• Venetian: ciàra f
• Vietnamese: lòng trắng
• Welsh: gwynnwy m
• Yiddish: ווײַסל‎ n (vaysl)

Further reading

• “albumen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Latin

Etymology

From albus (“white”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /alˈbuː.men/, [äɫ̪ˈbuːmɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /alˈbu.men/, [älˈbuːmen]

Noun

albūmen n (genitive albūminis); third declension

1. albumen; the white of an egg

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	albūmen	albūmina
Genitive	albūminis	albūminum
Dative	albūminī	albūminibus
Accusative	albūmen	albūmina
Ablative	albūmine	albūminibus
Vocative	albūmen	albūmina

Synonyms

• (albumen of an egg): albāmentum, albor, album

Related terms

• albāmentum
• albārium
• albārius
• albātus
• albēdō
• albeō
• albēscō
• albicēris
• albicō
• albidus
• albitūdō
• albor
• albūgō
• albulus
• album
• alburnum
• albus

 

Descendants

• English: albumen
• Russian: альбуми́н m (alʹbumín)
• Spanish: albumen, albúmina
• Italian: albume

References

• “albumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• albumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French albumen.

Noun

albumen n (uncountable)

1. albumen

Declension

declension of albumen (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) albumen	albumenul
genitive/dative	(unui) albumen	albumenului
vocative	albumenule

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin albūmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈbumen/ [alˈβ̞u.mẽn]
• Rhymes: -umen
• Syllabification: al‧bu‧men

Noun

albumen m (plural albúmenes)

1. egg white, albumen

   Synonym: clara

Related terms

• albúmina

Further reading

• “albumen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

albumen

1. definite plural of album