propane

English

Structural formula for propane.

Etymology

From clipping of propionic acid + -ane, from French propionique, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró) + πίων (píōn, “fat”). Analyzable as prop- +‎ -ane, borrowing or calque of German Propan.

Pronunciation

• enPR: prō'pān' IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊpeɪn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

propane (countable and uncountable, plural propanes)

2. (organic chemistry) An aliphatic hydrocarbon, C₃H₈, a constituent of natural gas. [from 1867]
   • 1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222:

     Propane gas is used for cooking and cylinder containers are placed to one side of the underframe, with battery boxes and electrical control boxes at the other side.

4. (US, synecdochically) LPG.

Synonyms

• E944 when used as a propellant

Hypernyms

• alkane

Derived terms

• biopropane
• bromochloropropane
• bromopropane
• chloropropane
• cyclopropane
• epoxypropane
• halopropane
• iodopropane
• isopropanide
• methylpropane
• nitropropane
• perfluoropropane
• phenylpropane
• procyclidine
• propanediol
• propanelike
• propanethial
• propanocaine
• propanoic
• propanol
• trimethylolpropane

Translations

aliphatic hydrocarbon: C₃H₈

• Afrikaans: propaan
• Arabic: بْرُوبَان m (brūbān), پْرُوپَان m (prūpān)
• Azerbaijani: propan
• Belarusian: прапа́н m (prapán)
• Bulgarian: пропа́н m (propán)
• Catalan: propà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 丙烷 (zh) (bǐngwán)

• Czech: propan (cs) m
• Dutch: propaan (nl) n
• Esperanto: propano
• Finnish: propaani (fi)
• French: propane (fr) m
• German: Propan (de) n
• Hungarian: propán (hu)
• Icelandic: própan n
• Indonesian: propana (id)
• Italian: propano (it) m
• Japanese: プロパン (ja) (puropan)
• Kazakh: пропан (propan)
• Khmer: ប្រូផេន (proupheen)
• Korean: 프로페인 (peuropein), 프로판 (peuropan)
• Navajo: níłchʼi łikoní
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: propan (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: propan m or n

• Plautdietsch: Propän f
• Polish: propan (pl) m
• Portuguese: propano (pt) m
• Romanian: propan (ro) n
• Russian: пропа́н (ru) m (propán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: про̀па̄н m

  Roman: pròpān (sh) m

• Slovak: propán m
• Spanish: propano m
• Swedish: propan (sv) n
• Tagalog: taltan
• Thai: โพรเพน (th)
• Turkish: propan (tr)
• Ukrainian: пропа́н m (propán)

References

• “propane”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “propane”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• on paper

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

propane m (plural propanes)

1. propane

Further reading

• “propane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.