arabinose

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab)bor.

Ancient Greek Ἄραψ (Áraps)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)

Ancient Greek Ἀραβικός (Arabikós)bor.

Latin arabicusder.

English arabic

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnusder.

Old French -inbor.

Middle English -in

English -ineclip.

English -in

English arabin

Ancient Greek γλεῦκος (gleûkos)der.

French glucose

English glucosebf.

English -ose

English arabinose

From arabin + -ose.

Noun

arabinose (countable and uncountable, plural arabinoses)

1. (biochemistry) An aldopentose that occurs most often in polysaccharides such as hemicellulose and pectin.

Derived terms

• aminoarabinose
• arabinonucleic
• arabinosic
• arabinoside
• cytosine arabinoside

Related terms

• arabinan
• arabinase

Translations

aldopentose that occurs most often in polysaccharides

• Catalan: arabinosa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉伯糖 (zh) (ālābótáng)

• Esperanto: arabinozo
• Finnish: arabinoosi
• Indonesian: arabinosa
• Italian: arabinosio m
• Portuguese: arabinose f
• Spanish: arabinosa f
• Thai: น้ำตาลอาราบิโนส (nám dtaan aaraabìnôht)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɾa.biˈnɔ.zi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɾa.biˈnɔ.zi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɾa.biˈnɔ.ze/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ɾɐ.biˈnɔ.zɨ/ [ɐ.ɾɐ.βiˈnɔ.zɨ]

• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧bi‧no‧se

Noun

arabinose f (plural arabinoses)

1. (biochemistry) arabinose (aldopentose that occurs most often in polysaccharides)

Further reading

• “arabinose”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “arabinose”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026