formalin

English

Noun

formalin (countable and uncountable, plural formalins)

1. A solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant and to preserve biological specimens.
   • 2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 20:

     If you failed to bathe it in the formalin solution every time, its flesh might cross the precipitous border into decay.

Derived terms

• formalinise
• paraformalin
• postformalin
• preformalin

Translations

a solution of formaldehyde in water

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 福爾馬林 / 福尔马林 (zh) (fú'ěrmǎlín), 福馬林 / 福马林 (zh) (fúmǎlín) (Taiwan), 福美林 (fúměilín) (rare), 福爾麥令 / 福尔麦令 (fú'ěrmàilìng) (rare), 富爾瑪林 / 富尔玛林 (zh) (fù'ěrmǎlín) (rare)

• Czech: formalin m
• Finnish: formaliini (fi)
• French: formol (fr) m
• German: Formalin n
• Japanese: ホルマリン (ja) (horumarin)
• Korean: 포르말린 (poreumallin)
• Russian: формали́н (ru) m (formalín)
• Tagalog: pormalina
• Thai: ฟอร์มาลิน (th)

See also

• formol

Anagrams

• informal

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈformalɪn]
• IPA^(key): [ˈformaliːn]

Noun

formalin m inan

1. formalin

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “formalin”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “formalin”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English formalin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔrˈma.lɪn/
• Rhymes: -lɪn
• Hyphenation: for‧ma‧lin

Noun

formalin

1. formalin (a solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant and to preserve biological specimens)