ammonia

English

Etymology

From Latin sal ammoniacus ‎(“salt of Amun, ammonium chloride”), named so because it was found near the temple of (Jupiter) Ammon in Egypt. Ammon derives from Ancient Greek Ἄμμων ‎(Ámmōn), from Egyptian jmn.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʌˈmon.jʌ/

Noun

ammonia ‎(uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH₃, with a pungent smell and taste.

Synonyms

• spirits of hartshorn (obsolete)
• volatile alkali (obsolete)

Derived terms

Terms derived from ammonia

• amine
• amino-
• ammonia borane

• ammonian
• ammonical

• ammonic
• ammonium

Translations

the compound NH₃

• Bulgarian: амоняк (bg) ‎(amonjak)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氨 ‎(on¹), 氨氣, 氨气 ‎(on¹ hei³), 阿摩尼亞, 阿摩尼亚 ‎(aa³ mo¹ nei⁴ aa³) (common name)

  Hakka: 氨 ‎(ôn), 阿摩尼亞, 阿摩尼亚 ‎(à-mo-ni-yá) (common name)

  Mandarin: 氨 (zh) ‎(ān), 氨氣 (zh), 氨气 (zh) ‎(ānqì), 阿摩尼亞 (zh), 阿摩尼亚 (zh) ‎(āmóníyà) (common name), 安摩尼亞 (zh), 安摩尼亚 (zh) ‎(ānmóníyà) (common name)

  Min Nan: 氨 ‎(an), a-mó͘-ní-á

• Czech: čpavek (cs) m, amoniak m
• Dutch: ammoniak (nl) m
• Esperanto: amoniako
• Estonian: ammoniaak
• Faroese: ammoniakk n
• Finnish: ammoniakki (fi)
• French: ammoniaque (fr) f, ammoniac (fr) m
• German: Ammoniak (de) n
• Greek: αμμωνία (el) f ‎(ammonía)
• Hungarian: ammónia (hu)

• Italian: ammoniaca (it) f
• Japanese: アンモニア (ja) ‎(anmonia)
• Maori: haukini
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ammoniakk (no) m

  Nynorsk: ammoniakk m

• Persian: آمونیاک (fa) ‎(âmuniyâk)
• Polish: amoniak (pl) m
• Portuguese: amoníaco (pt) m, amônia (pt) f
• Romanian: amoniac (ro) n
• Russian: аммиа́к (ru) m ‎(ammiák)
• Serbo-Croatian: amonijak (sh) m
• Slovak: čpavok m, amoniak m
• Spanish: amoníaco m
• Swedish: ammoniak (sv) c
• Turkish: amonyak (tr)

References

• Ammonia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ammonia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• Amaimon