aspirin

See also: Aspirin

English

Etymology

From the German trademark Aspirin, from acetylierte Spirsäure (literally “acetylated spiraeic acid”). The trade name Aspirin is a registered trademark in some countries, but has entered the English language in generic usage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæspɹɪn/, /ˈæspɪɹɪn/

Noun

aspirin (countable and uncountable, plural aspirins)

1. (uncountable, pharmacology) an analgesic drug, acetylsalicylic acid

   Synonyms: acetylsalicylic acid, ASA

   Hypernym: NSAID

   Coordinate terms: Tylenol/tylenol, paracetamol, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, codeine

2. (countable) a tablet containing this substance

Derived terms

• aspirinate

Translations

analgesic drug

• Albanian: aspirinë (sq)
• Arabic: أَسْبِرِين (ar) m (ʔasbirīn)
• Armenian: ասպիրին (hy) (aspirin)
• Bulgarian: аспири́н m (aspirín)
• Catalan: aspirina f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿士匹靈／阿士匹灵 (aa³ si⁶ pat¹ ling⁴), 阿士匹灵 (aa³ si⁶ pat¹ ling⁴)

  Hakka: 阿斯匹靈／阿斯匹灵, 阿斯匹灵 (à-sṳ-phi-lín)

  Mandarin: 阿斯匹靈／阿斯匹灵 (zh) (āsīpǐlíng), 阿斯匹灵 (zh) (āsīpīlíng, āsīpǐlíng), 阿司匹靈／阿司匹灵 (zh), 阿司匹灵 (zh) (āsīpīlíng, āsīpǐlíng), 阿司匹林 (zh) (āsīpǐlín, āsīpīlín), 阿斯匹林 (zh) (āsīpīlín, āsīpǐlín)

• Czech: aspirin m
• Dutch: aspirine (nl)
• Esperanto: aspirino
• Estonian: aspiriin
• Finnish: aspiriini (fi)
• French: aspirine (fr) f
• Galician: aspirina (gl) f
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• German: Aspirin (de) n
• Greek: ασπιρίνη (el) f (aspiríni)
• Haitian Creole: aspirin
• Hebrew: אַסְפִּירִין m (aspirín)
• Hindi: एस्पिरिन m (espirin)
• Hungarian: aszpirin (hu)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: aspirina (it) f
• Japanese: アスピリン (asupirin)
• Portuguese: aspirina (pt) f
• Romanian: aspirină (ro) f
• Russian: аспири́н (ru) m (aspirín)
• Spanish: aspirina (es) f, aspirinar f
• Tagalog: aspirina
• Thai: แอสไพริน (ɛ́ɛs-pai-rin)
• Yiddish: אַספּירין f (aspirin)
• Zhuang: ahswhbizlinz

tablet containing acetylsalicylic acid

• Albanian: aspirinë (sq)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿士匹靈／阿士匹灵 (aa³ si⁶ pat¹ ling⁴), 阿士匹灵 (aa³ si⁶ pat¹ ling⁴)

  Hakka: 阿斯匹靈／阿斯匹灵, 阿斯匹灵 (à-sṳ-phi-lín)

  Mandarin: 阿斯匹靈／阿斯匹灵 (zh) (āsīpǐlíng), 阿斯匹灵 (zh) (āsīpīlíng, āsīpǐlíng), 阿司匹靈／阿司匹灵 (zh), 阿司匹灵 (zh) (āsīpīlíng, āsīpǐlíng), 阿司匹林 (zh) (āsīpǐlín, āsīpīlín), 阿斯匹林 (zh) (āsīpīlín, āsīpǐlín)

• Dutch: aspirientje (nl) n
• Finnish: aspiriini (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: ασπιρίνη (el) f (aspiríni)
• Haitian Creole: aspirin
• Hungarian: aszpirin (hu)
• Persian: آسپرین (fa)
• Romanian: aspirină (ro) f
• Tagalog: aspirina
• Thai: แอสไพริน (ɛ́ɛs-pai-rin)

Further reading

• aspirin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Piranis, in pairs

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈpi.ɾin]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [asˈpi.ɾin]

Verb

aspirin

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Czech

Noun

1. aspirin

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Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch aspirine.

Noun

aspirin (first-person possessive aspirinku, second-person possessive aspirinmu, third-person possessive aspirinnya)

1. aspirin

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aspǐriːn/
• Hyphenation: a‧spi‧rin

Noun

aspìrīn m (Cyrillic spelling аспѝрӣн)

1. aspirin

Declension

Declension of aspirin

	singular
nominative	aspìrīn
genitive	aspirína
dative	aspirinu
accusative	aspirin
vocative	aspirine
locative	aspirinu
instrumental	aspirinom