mustard gas

English

Etymology

Calque of German Senfgas.

Noun

mustard gas (countable and uncountable, plural mustard gases)

1. A vesicant gas, bis (2-chloroethyl) sulfide, (ClC₂H₄)₂S, once used in chemical warfare.

   The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

   • 1939 June, “What the Railways are Doing: London Transport Air Raid Precautions”, in Railway Magazine, page 462:

     The necessarily elaborate precautions taken to decontaminate vehicles and trains which have been in contact with mustard gas were shown, and examples of the board's breakdown and ambulance vehicles were available for inspection.

Synonyms

• dichlorodiethyl sulfide
• sulfur mustard, sulphur mustard
• yellow cross liquid
• yperite

Translations

vesicant gas

• Afrikaans: yperiet, mosterdgas
• Arabic: غاز الخردل‎
• Armenian: իպրիտ (hy) (iprit)
• Azerbaijani: iprit
• Basque: ziape-gas
• Breton: iperit, gaz moustard
• Bulgarian: иприт (iprit), горчичен газ (gorčičen gaz)
• Catalan: gas mostassa m, mostassa sulfurada f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 芥子氣

  Mandarin: 芥子氣 (zh), 芥子气 (zh) (jièzǐqì), 芥子毒氣, 芥子毒气 (jièzǐ dúqì)

• Czech: yperit (cs), hořčičný plyn
• Danish: sennepsgas
• Dutch: mosterdgas (nl) n, yperiet (nl) n
• Esperanto: iperito, mustarda gaso
• Estonian: ipriit, sinepigaas
• Finnish: sinappikaasu (fi)
• French: gaz moutarde (fr) m, ypérite (fr) f
• Galician: gas mostaza (gl)
• Georgian: მდოგვის გაზი (mdogvis gazi), მდოგვის აირი (mdogvis airi), იპრიტი (iṗriṭi)
• German: Senfgas (de) n, Gelbkreuz n
• Greek: αέριο μουστάρδας n (aério moustárdas)
• Hebrew: גז חרדל‎
• Hindi: मस्टर्ड गैस (masṭarḍ gais), सल्फर मस्टर्ड (salphar masṭarḍ)
• Hungarian: mustárgáz, kén-mustár
• Icelandic: sinnepsgas
• Indonesian: yperit
• Irish: gás mustaird
• Italian: iprite (it) f

• Japanese: マスタードガス (masutādo gasu)
• Kazakh: иприт (ïprït)
• Korean: 머스터드 황 (meoseuteodeu hwang), 머스터드 가스 (meoseuteodeu gaseu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gaza xerdelî

• Kyrgyz: иприт (iprit)
• Latin: ypertium, gasum sinapis
• Latvian: iprīts
• Lithuanian: ipritas
• Norwegian: sennepsgass
• Occitan: gas mostarda m
• Persian: گاز خردل‎
• Polish: gaz musztardowy (pl) m, iperyt siarkowy (pl) f
• Portuguese: gás mostarda m, iperita (pt) f
• Romanian: iperită (ro), gaz muștar
• Russian: горчичный газ (ru) m (gorčičnyj gaz), иприт (ru) m (iprit)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ипѐрӣт

  Roman: iperit (sh) m

• Slovak: yperit (sk)
• Slovene: iperit, gorčični plin
• Spanish: gas mostaza m
• Swedish: senapsgas (sv) c
• Tamil: கடுகுவாயு (kaṭukuvāyu)
• Turkish: iperit, hardal gazı
• Ukrainian: іприт (ipryt)
• Welsh: nwy mwstard
• West Flemish: yperiet, mosterdgas
• Western Panjabi: مسٹرڈ گیس‎