propane

English

Etymology

From German Propan, using -ane.

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

propane (countable and uncountable, plural propanes)

1. (organic chemistry) An aliphatic hydrocarbon, C₃H₈, a constituent of natural gas.

Synonyms

• E944 when used as a propellant

Derived terms

• cyclopropane
• propanelike

Translations

aliphatic hydrocarbon: C₃H₈

• Afrikaans: propaan
• Arabic: بْرُوبَان m (brubān)
• 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
• Italian: propano (it) m
• Japanese: プロパン (ja) (puropan)
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• Kazakh: пропан (propan)
• Navajo: níłchʼi łikoní
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: propan (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: propan m or n

• Polish: propan (pl) m
• Portuguese: propano (pt) m
• 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
• Turkish: propan (tr)
• Ukrainian: пропа́н m (propán)

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