inhibitor

See also: Inhibitor

English

Etymology

From inhibit +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈhɪbɪtɚ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

inhibitor (plural inhibitors)

1. One who, or that which, inhibits.

   I found daily meditation to be a useful inhibitor of negative thoughts.

2. (chemistry) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction.
   • 2024 March 21, Kristen Rogers, “If antidepressants are killing your sex life, here’s what you can do”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The class of antidepressants most commonly associated with sexual dysfunction is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which treat depression by ultimately increasing levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain. […] A common solution is switching to bupropion, which is a norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor, or NDRI.

3. (biology) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific biological process.

Derived terms

• inhibitory

Compound words

• angioinhibitor
• carbidopa
• cathelin
• coinhibitor
• isoinhibitor
• neuroinhibitor
• noninhibitor
• ovoinhibitor
• proinhibitor
• salirasib
• sympathoinhibitor
• vasoinhibitor
• vigabatrin

Expressions

• ACE inhibitor
• Bowman-Birk protease inhibitor
• enzyme inhibitor
• protease inhibitor
• proton-pump inhibitor
• proton pump inhibitor
• puberty inhibitor
• selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
• serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor
• TNF inhibitor

Translations

substance slowing a reaction

• Afrikaans: inhibeerder
• Azerbaijani: ingibitor
• Basque: inhibitzaile
• Bulgarian: инхибитор (bg) (inhibitor)
• Catalan: inhibidor m
• Chichewa: woletsa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 抑制劑 / 抑制剂 (jik¹ zai³ zai¹)

• Czech: inhibitor (cs) m zpomalovač m
• Danish: hæmmer
• Dutch: inhibitor m, remmer (nl) m
• Estonian: inhibiitor
• Finnish: estoaine, inhibiittori (fi)
• French: inhibiteur (fr) m
• Georgian: ინჰიბიტორი (inhibiṭori)
• German: Inhibitor (de) m
• Greek: αναστολέας (el) m (anastoléas)
• Gujarati: બાધક (bādhak)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: hemill (is) m
• Indonesian: inhibitor (id), penghambat (id)
• Italian: inibitore (it)
• Japanese: 阻害剤 (sogaizai)
• Kazakh: ингибиторы m pl (iñibitory)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rêgir (ku)

• Lithuanian: inhibitorius
• Malay: perencat (ms)
• Mongolian: дарангуйлагч (mn) (darangujlagč)
• Polish: inhibitor (pl) m
• Portuguese: inibidor
• Romanian: inhibitor (ro)
• Russian: ингиби́тор (ru) m (ingibítor)
• Sotho: sesitisa
• Spanish: inhibidor (es)
• Swahili: kiviza
• Tagalog: panansala
• Telugu: నిరోధకము (nirōdhakamu)
• Yiddish: אינהיביטאָר (inhibitor)

See also

• catalyst

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪnɦɪbɪtor]

Noun

inhibitor m inan

1. (chemistry, biology, pharmacology) inhibitor

   inhibitor koroze. ― rust inhibitor.

Declension

Declension of inhibitor (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	inhibitor	inhibitory
genitive	inhibitoru	inhibitorů
dative	inhibitoru	inhibitorům
accusative	inhibitor	inhibitory
vocative	inhibitore	inhibitory
locative	inhibitoru	inhibitorech
instrumental	inhibitorem	inhibitory

Related terms

• inhibice
• inhibiční

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from English inhibitor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.hi.ˈbi.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -tɔr, -ɔr, -r
• Hyphenation: in‧hi‧bi‧tor

Noun

inhibitor (plural inhibitor-inhibitor)

1. (biology, chemistry) inhibitor: any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction or biological process

   Synonym: penghambat

   Synonym: perencat (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “inhibitor”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English inhibitor, French inhibiteur, German Inhibitor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.xiˈbi.tɔr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -itɔr
• Syllabification: in‧hi‧bi‧tor

Noun

inhibitor m inan

1. (chemistry) inhibitor

Declension

Declension of inhibitor

	singular	plural
nominative	inhibitor	inhibitory
genitive	inhibitora	inhibitorów
dative	inhibitorowi	inhibitorom
accusative	inhibitor	inhibitory
instrumental	inhibitorem	inhibitorami
locative	inhibitorze	inhibitorach
vocative	inhibitorze	inhibitory

Derived terms

adjective

• inhibitorowy

Further reading

• inhibitor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French inhibiteur.

Noun

inhibitor m (plural inhibitori)

1. inhibitor

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	inhibitor	inhibitorul		inhibitori	inhibitorii
genitive-dative	inhibitor	inhibitorului		inhibitori	inhibitorilor
vocative	inhibitorule			inhibitorilor