laboratory

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Latin labōs

Latin labor

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin labōrō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Late Latin labōrātor

Medieval Latin labōrātōrius

Medieval Latin labōrātōriumbor.

English laboratory

Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ləˈbɔɹətɹe/, /-tɹɪ/, /-tɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlæbɹəˌtɔɹi/, /ləˈbɔɹəˌtɔɹi/, /ləˈbɔɹətɹi/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ləˈbɔɹətɹiː/, /ˈlɛbɹəˌtoːɹiː/
• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /laboɾaˈtoɾi/, [lɐ.bo.ɾɐˈt̪oː.ɾɪ], /ˈlabɾatoɾi/, [ˌlab.ɾɐ.t̪oˈɾɪ]
• Hyphenation: lab‧or‧a‧to‧ry, Philippines: la‧bo‧ra‧to‧ry

Noun

laboratory (plural laboratories)

1. A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
2. A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Laboratory”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 325:

     Again she read the passage that had riveted her attention; and, rising from her seat, carried the still open volume, and laid it on a slab by the furnace in the laboratory: it was a celebrated treatise on poisons, written in the fifteenth century.

   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

     [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.

Synonyms

• lab (colloquial)
• laboratorium (archaic or nonstandard)

Derived terms

• biolaboratory
• collaboratory
• hot laboratory
• interlaboratory
• intralaboratory
• laboratorian
• laboratorily
• laboratorist
• laboratory assistant
• laboratory coat
• laboratoryful
• laboratorylike
• laboratory mouse
• laboratory rat
• laboratoryware
• language laboratory
• multilaboratory
• nonlaboratory

Translations

room, building or institution equipped for scientific research

• Afrikaans: laboratorium (af)
• Albanian: laborator (sq) m
• Arabic: مَعْمَل m (maʕmal), مُخْتَبَر m (muḵtabar)
• Aragonese: laboratorio m
• Armenian: լաբորատորիա (hy) (laboratoria)
• Asturian: llaboratoriu m
• Azerbaijani: laboratoriya (az)
• Belarusian: лабарато́рыя f (labaratóryja)
• Bengali: পরীক্ষাগার (bn) (porikkhagar)
• Bulgarian: лаборато́рия f (laboratórija)
• Burmese: ဓာတ်ခွဲခန်း (my) (dhathkwai:hkan:)
• Catalan: laboratori (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 實驗室 / 实验室 (sat⁶ jim⁶ sat¹)

  Mandarin: 實驗室 / 实验室 (zh) (shíyànshì)

• Corsican: laburatoriu m, laboratoriu m
• Crimean Tatar: laboratoriya
• Czech: laboratoř (cs) f
• Danish: laboratorium (da) n
• Dutch: laboratorium (nl) n, lab (nl) n, labo (nl) n
• Emilian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: laboratorio (eo), esplorejo
• Estonian: laboratoorium, labor (et)
• Finnish: laboratorio (fi), labra (fi), labbis (fi)
• French: laboratoire (fr) m
• Frisian:

  North Frisian: Laboor n (Sylt)

• Friulian: laboratori m
• Galician: laboratorio (gl) m
• Georgian: ლაბორატორია (laboraṭoria)
• German: Labor (de) n, Laboratorium (de) n, Laborgebäude n
• Greek: εργαστήριο (el) m (ergastírio)
• Hebrew: מַעֲבָּדָה (he) f (ma'abadá)
• Hindi: प्रयोगशाला f (prayogśālā)
• Hungarian: laboratórium (hu), (storeroom for science class) szertár (hu)
• Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: rannsóknarstofa f, tilraunastofa f
• Ido: laboratorio (io)
• Indonesian: laboratorium (id)
• Interlingua: laboratorio (ia)
• Irish: saotharlann f
• Italian: laboratorio (it) m
• Japanese: 研究室 (ja) (けんきゅうしつ, kenkyūshitsu), 実験室 (ja) (じっけんしつ, jikkenshitsu), ラボ (rabo)
• Kalmyk: лаборатор (laborator)
• Kazakh: зертхана (kk) (zertxana), лаборатория (laboratorıya)
• Khmer: ទីពិសោធ (tii pisaot)
• Korean: 실험실(實驗室) (ko) (silheomsil), 랩 (ko) (raep)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ezmûngeh (ku), labaratûwar

• Kyrgyz: лаборатория (ky) (laboratoriya)
• Latin: labōrātōrium n
• Latvian: laboratorija f
• Ligurian: laboratöio m
• Lithuanian: laboratorija f
• Lombard: laboratori m
• Low German:

  East Frisian Low German: laboor n

• Macedonian: лабораторија (mk) f (laboratorija)
• Malay: makmal (ms)
• Maltese: laboratorju
• Marathi: प्रयोगशाळा (mr) f (prayogśāḷā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: лаборатори (mn) (laboratori)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: laboratorium (no) n

  Nynorsk: laboratorium n

• Pashto: لابراتوار m (lābrātwãr), آزمايشګاه m (āzmāyéšgāh)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: آزْمایِشْگاه (âzmâyešgâh), لابْراتُوار (lâbrâtovâr)

• Piedmontese: laboratòri m
• Plautdietsch: Proowkoma f
• Polish: laboratorium (pl) n, pracownia (pl) f
• Portuguese: laboratório (pt) m
• Romagnol: laburatöri m
• Romanian: laborator (ro) m
• Russian: лаборато́рия (ru) f (laboratórija)
• Scottish Gaelic: deuchainn-lann m, obair-lann m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лаборато̑риј m (Croatian), лабораторија f (Bosnian, Serbian)

  Latin: laboratȏrij m (Croatian), laboràtōrija (sh) f (Bosnian, Serbian)

• Sikkimese: ཉམ་ཞིབ་ཁང (nyam zhib khang)
• Slovak: laboratórium n
• Slovene: laboratorij (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: laboratorium m, labor m

• Sotho: serupa
• Spanish: laboratorio (es) m
• Swahili: maabara (sw)
• Swedish: laboratorium (sv) n, labb (sv) n, labbis (sv)
• Tagalog: panaliksikan, laboratoryo
• Tajik: лаборатория (laboratoriya)
• Tamil: ஆய்வுக்கூடம் (ta) (āyvukkūṭam)
• Tatar: лаборатория (laboratoriyä)
• Telugu: ప్రయోగశాల (te) (prayōgaśāla)
• Thai: ห้องปฏิบัติการ (hɔ̂ng-bpà-dtì-bàt-gaan)
• Turkish: laboratuvar (tr)
• Turkmen: laboratoriýa
• Ukrainian: лаборато́рія (uk) f (laboratórija)
• Urdu: تَجْرِبَہ گاہ (ur) m (tajriba gāh)
• Uyghur: تەجرىبىخانا (tejribixana), لابوراتورىيە (laboratoriye)
• Uzbek: laboratoriya (uz)
• Vietnamese: phòng thí nghiệm (vi)
• Welsh: labordy (cy) m
• Yiddish: לאַבאָראַטאָריע f (laboratorye)
• Zhuang: fuengzsaedniemh

place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured

• Albanian: laborator (sq) m
• Arabic: مُخْتَبَر m (muḵtabar), مَعْمَل m (maʕmal)
• Armenian: լաբորատորիա (hy) (laboratoria)
• Azerbaijani: laboratoriya (az)
• Belarusian: лабарато́рыя f (labaratóryja)
• Bengali: পরীক্ষাগার (bn) (porikkhagar)
• Bulgarian: лаборато́рия f (laboratórija)
• Burmese: ဓာတ်ခွဲခန်း (my) (dhathkwai:hkan:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 研究室 (yánjiūshì)

• Crimean Tatar: laboratoriya
• Czech: laboratoř (cs) f
• Danish: laboratorium (da) n
• Dutch: laboratorium (nl) n
• Estonian: laboratoorium
• Finnish: laboratorio (fi)
• French: laboratoire (fr) m
• Galician: laboratorio (gl) m
• Georgian: ლაბორატორია (laboraṭoria)
• German: Labor (de) n, Laboratorium (de) n, Laborgebäude n
• Greek: εργαστήριο (el) m (ergastírio)
• Hebrew: מַעְבָּדָה (he) f (ma'badá)
• Hindi: प्रयोगशाला f (prayogśālā)
• Hungarian: laboratórium (hu)
• Icelandic: rannsóknarstofu
• Ido: laboratorio (io)
• Irish: saotharlann f
• Italian: laboratorio (it) m
• Japanese: 研究所 (ja) (けんきゅうじょ, kenkyūjo), ラボラトリー (raboratorī)
• Kalmyk: лаборатор (laborator)
• Kazakh: зертхана (kk) (zertxana), лаборатория (laboratorıya)
• Khmer: ទីពិសោធ (tii pisaot)
• Korean: 연구실(研究室) (ko) (yeon'gusil)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ezmûngeh (ku), labaratûwar

• Kyrgyz: лаборатория (ky) (laboratoriya)
• Lao: ຫ້ອງທົດລອງ (hǭng thot lǭng)
• Latin: labōrātōrium n
• Latvian: laboratorija f
• Lithuanian: laboratorija f
• Macedonian: лабораторија (mk) f (laboratorija)
• Malay: makmal (ms)
• Maltese: laboratorju
• Marathi: प्रयोगशाळा (mr) f (prayogśāḷā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: лаборатори (mn) (laboratori)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: laboratorium (no) n

  Nynorsk: laboratorium n

• Pashto: لابراتوار m (lābrātwãr), آزمايشګاه m (āzmāyéšgāh)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: آزْمایِشْگاه (âzmâyešgâh), لابْراتُوار (lâbrâtovâr)

• Polish: laboratorium (pl) n
• Portuguese: laboratório (pt) m
• Romanian: laborator (ro) m
• Russian: лаборато́рия (ru) f (laboratórija)
• Scottish Gaelic: obair-lann m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лаборато̑риј m (Croatian), лабораторија f (Bosnian, Serbian)

  Latin: laboratȏrij m (Croatian), laboràtōrija (sh) f (Bosnian, Serbian)

• Slovak: laboratórium n
• Slovene: laboratorij (sl) m
• Spanish: laboratorio (es) m
• Swedish: laboratorium (sv) n
• Tajik: лаборатория (laboratoriya)
• Tatar: лаборатория (laboratoriyä)
• Thai: ห้องทดลอง (hɔ̂ng-tót-lɔɔng)
• Turkish: laboratuvar (tr)
• Turkmen: laboratoriýa
• Ukrainian: лаборато́рія (uk) f (laboratórija)
• Urdu: تَجْرِبَہ گاہ (ur) m (tajriba gāh)
• Uyghur: تەجرىبىخانا (tejribixana), لابوراتورىيە (laboratoriye)
• Uzbek: laboratoriya (uz)
• Vietnamese: phòng thí nghiệm (vi)
• Yiddish: לאַבאָראַטאָריע f (laboratorye)

See also

• laboratory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia