ribosome

English

Etymology

From ribo- +‎ -some.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪbəˌsəʊm/, /ˈɹaɪbəˌzəʊm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪbəˌsoʊm/, /ˈɹaɪbəˌzoʊm/

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

ribosome (plural ribosomes)

1. (biology, cytology) A small organelle found in all cells; involved in the production of proteins by translating messenger RNA. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

• cytoribosome
• mitoribosome
• monoribosome
• oligoribosome
• oncoribosome
• plastoribosome
• polyribosome
• preribosome
• ribosomal
• ribosomic
• ribosomically
• ribosomopathy
• subribosome

Translations

organelle

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: ribosoma m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 核糖體 / 核糖体 (hat⁶ tong⁴ tai²), 核糖核蛋白體 / 核糖核蛋白体 (hat⁶ tong⁴ hat⁶ daan^6-2 bak⁶ tai²) (dated), 核蛋白體 / 核蛋白体 (hat⁶ daan^6-2 bak⁶ tai²) (dated)

  Mandarin: 核糖體 / 核糖体 (zh) (hétángtǐ), 核糖核蛋白體 / 核糖核蛋白体 (hétáng hédànbáitǐ) (dated), 核蛋白體 / 核蛋白体 (hédànbáitǐ) (dated)

• Czech: ribozom (cs) m
• Dutch: ribosoom (nl) n
• Esperanto: ribosomo
• Finnish: ribosomi (fi)
• French: ribosome (fr) m
• German: Ribosom (de) n
• Greek: ριβόσωμα (el) n (rivósoma)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: राइबोसोम (rāibosom)
• Hungarian: riboszóma (hu)
• Icelandic: netkorn
• Indonesian: ribosom (id)
• Italian: ribosoma (it) m
• Japanese: リボソーム (ja) (ribosōmu)
• Khmer: រីបូសូម (riibousoum)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: ribosoma f
• Maori: tuipūmua
• Polish: rybosom (pl) m
• Portuguese: ribossomo (pt), ribossoma (pt)
• Romanian: ribozom (ro) m
• Russian: рибосо́ма (ru) f (ribosóma)
• Spanish: ribosoma (es) m
• Swedish: ribosom (sv) c
• Tagalog: ribolawas
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ribozom (tr)
• Ukrainian: рибосо́ма f (rybosóma)
• Vietnamese: ribôxôm
• Welsh: ribosom m

Further reading

• ribosome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bosomier, broomies

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

ribosome m (plural ribosomes)

1. ribosome

Further reading

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