arginine

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Arginin, perhaps from Ancient Greek ἀργινόεις (arginóeis, “brightly-shining, white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹɡɪniːn/

Noun

arginine (countable and uncountable, plural arginines)

1. An amino acid found in animal foods that plays an important role in several physiological processes.

Synonyms

• Arg

Derived terms

• argininemia
• benzoylarginine
• boroarginine
• diarginine
• homoarginine
• hyperargininemia
• hypoargininemia
• ketoarginine
• leucylarginine
• methylarginine
• nitroarginine
• oligoarginine
• peptidylarginine
• phosphoarginine
• polyarginine
• vinylarginine

 

Translations

an amino acid

• Catalan: arginina
• Czech: arginin m
• Dutch: arginine (nl)
• Finnish: arginiini
• French: arginine (fr)
• Galician: arxinina f
• German: Arginin (de)
• Greek: αργινίνη (el) f (arginíni)
• Hebrew: ארגינין (arginin)
• Hungarian: arginin (hu)
• Irish: argainín m
• Italian: arginina (it)
• Japanese: アルギニン (aruginin)
• Kabuverdianu:

  ALUPEC: arjinina

  Badiu: arjinina

  São Vicente: arginina

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• Latin: arginina
• Latvian: arginīns
• Lithuanian: argininas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Arginin
• Persian: آرژینین (âržinin)
• Polish: arginina f
• Portuguese: arginina
• Romanian: arginină (ro) f
• Russian: аргини́н (ru) (arginín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аргѝнӣн m

  Roman: argìnīn (sh)

• Slovak: arginín
• Spanish: arginina f
• Swedish: arginin (sv)
• Turkish: arginin
• Ukrainian: аргінін (arhinin)

Anagrams

• Nigerian, geraniin

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Italian

Noun

arginine f

1. plural of arginina

Anagrams

• nigerina
• rinnegai