milligram

See also: mil·ligram and milli-gram

English

Alternative forms

• milligramme

Etymology

Borrowed from French milligramme, equivalent to milli- +‎ gram.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlɪɡɹæm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

milligram (plural milligrams)

2. (metrology) An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻³ grams. Symbol: mg

   Holonyms: gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram

   Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram

   • 2024 March 11, Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, “Dark roasted and dangerous: Everything you should know about caffeine intoxication”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The US Food and Drug Administration defines this limit as anything more than 400 milligrams of caffeine daily for healthy adults. This is equivalent to four or five cups of coffee.

   • 2025 March 29, Kristen Rogers, “Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Blue No. 1 and yellow No. 6 may also be toxic to some human cells. And as little as 1 milligram of yellow dye No. 5 may cause irritability, restlessness and sleep disturbances for sensitive children.

Translations

milligram

• Arabic: مِلِّيغْرَام (millīḡrām)
• Asturian: miligramu m
• Bengali: মিলিগ্রাম (bn) (miligram)
• Burmese: မီလီဂရမ် (my) (miliga.ram)
• Catalan: mil·ligram m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毫克 (zh) (háokè)

• Czech: miligram (cs) m
• Danish: milligram (da) n
• Esperanto: miligramo
• Finnish: milligramma (fi)
• French: milligramme (fr) m
• Galician: miligramo m
• German: Milligramm (de) n
• Greek: χιλιοστόγραμμο (el) n (chiliostógrammo)
• Hindi: मिलीग्राम m (milīgrām)
• Hungarian: milligramm (hu)
• Ido: miligramo (io)
• Italian: milligrammo (it)
• Japanese: ミリグラム (ja) (miriguramu)
• Kannada: ಮಿಲ್ಲೀಗ್ರಾಮು (millīgrāmu)
• Khmer: មិល្លីក្រាម (millii-kraam)
• Korean: 밀리그램 (ko) (milligeuraem)
• Malagasy: miligrama (mg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: milligram (no) n

  Nynorsk: milligram n

• Polish: miligram (pl) m
• Portuguese: miligrama (pt) m
• Romanian: miligram (ro) n
• Russian: миллигра́мм (ru) m (milligrámm)
• Spanish: miligramo (es) m
• Swedish: milligram (sv) n
• Tagalog: miligramo
• Telugu: మిల్లీగ్రాము (millīgrāmu)
• Thai: มิลลิกรัม (min-lí-gram)
• Vietnamese: miligam
• Yiddish: מיליגראַם m (miligram)
• Yoruba: mílígíráàmù

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French milligramme, equivalent to milli- +‎ gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.liˌɣrɑm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mil‧li‧gram

Noun

milligram n or m (plural milligrammen)

1. milligramme, milligram (0.001 gramme)

Tatar

Noun

milligram

1. milligram

Declension

    declension of milligram

Nominative	milligram
Genitive	milligramnıñ
Dative	milligramga
Accusative	milligramnı
Locative	milligramda
Ablative	milligramnan