insulin

See also: Insulin

English

Etymology

From Latin īnsula (“island”) (named for the islets of Langerhans, where insulin is produced) +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsjʊlin/, /ˈɪnʃʊlɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsəlɪn/
• Hyphenation: in‧su‧lin

Noun

insulin (countable and uncountable, plural insulins)

1. A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism.

Translations

polypeptide hormone

• Afrikaans: insulien
• Albanian: insulina
• Arabic: إِنْسُولِين‏‎ m (ʾinsulin)
• Armenian: ինսուլին (hy) (insulin)
• Asturian: insulina
• Basque: intsulina
• Belarusian: інсулі́н m (insulín)
• Bulgarian: инсули́н m (insulín)
• Catalan: insulina
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胰島素 (zh), 胰岛素 (zh) (yídǎosù)

• Czech: inzulin (cs), inzulín (cs) m
• Danish: insulin (da)
• Dhivehi: އިންސިޔުލިން‏‎ (insiyulin)
• Dutch: insuline (nl) m
• Esperanto: insulino
• Estonian: insuliin
• Finnish: insuliini (fi)
• French: insuline (fr) f
• Galician: insulina
• Georgian: ინსულინი (insulini)
• German: Insulin (de) n
• Greek: ινσουλίνη (el) f (insoulíni)
• Hebrew: אינסולין‏‎ (he) m (insulin)
• Hindi: मधुसूदनी (hi) (madhusūdnī)
• Hungarian: inzulin (hu)
• Icelandic: insúlín (is), eyjavaki m
• Indonesian: insulin (id)
• Irish: inslin
• Italian: insulina (it) f
• Japanese: インスリン (insurin), インシュリン (ja) (inshurin)
• Kapampangan: insulin

• Korean: 인슐린 (insyullin)
• Kurdish: însulîn
• Latin: insulinum
• Latvian: insulīns
• Lithuanian: insulinas
• Macedonian: инсулин (insulin)
• Malay: insulin
• Malayalam: ഇന്‍സുലിന്‍ (in‍sulin‍)
• Maori: taiaki huka
• Norwegian: insulin
• Norwegian Nynorsk: insulin
• Occitan: insulina
• Persian: انسولین‏‎ (fa) (ensulin)
• Polish: insulina (pl) f
• Portuguese: insulina (pt) f
• Romanian: insulină (ro)
• Russian: инсули́н (ru) m (insulín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: инсулин m, инзулин

  Roman: insulin m, inzulin (sh)

• Slovak: inzulín m
• Slovene: insulin m
• Spanish: insulina (es) f
• Sundanese: insulin
• Swedish: insulin (sv)
• Thai: อินซูลิน (th) (insoolin)
• Turkish: insülin (tr)
• Ukrainian: інсулі́н m (insulín)
• Urdu: جزیرین‏‎
• Vietnamese: insulin (vi)
• Yiddish: אינסולין‏‎ (insulin)

Derived terms

• insulin-like growth factor / IGF

Anagrams

• inulins