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) enPR: əmōn'yə, IPA^(key): /əˈmoʊn.jə/

Noun

ammonia (countable and uncountable, plural ammonias)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH₃, with a pungent smell and taste
2. a solution of this compound in water used domestically as a cleaning fluid

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• 880 ammonia
• ammonia borane
• ammonian
• ammonia process
• ammonic
• ammonical
• ammonium
• liquid ammonia

 

Related terms

• amide
• amine
• amino-

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)
• Irish: amóinia f
• Italian: ammoniaca (it) f

• Japanese: アンモニア (ja) (anmonia)
• Latvian: amonjaks m
• 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:

  Cyrillic: амо̀нијак m

  Roman: amònijak (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
• ammonia at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Amaimon