sarin

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sarin"

English

Etymology

Named after the initials of its creators, Gerhard Schrader (1903–1990), Ambros, Rüdiger and Van der Linde.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːɹɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːɹən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

sarin (uncountable)

1. (toxicology, military) The nerve gas O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon.

   Synonym: GB

   • 2017 April 12, Samuel Osborne, “Vladimir Putin says US-Russia relations are worse since Donald Trump took office”, in The Independent‎^[1]:

     The health minister in Turkey, which treated many of the attack's victims and conducted autopsies on others, said test results conducted on victims confirmed sarin gas was used.

   • 2022 April 17, Scott Lucas, “When Will There Be Justice Over Assad’s Sarin Attacks?”, in EA WorldView‎^[2]:

     Because Syria was not a signatory of the Chemical Weapons Convention, there was no international mechanism to ascribe responsibility for the attack, although UN inspectors did conclude that sarin had been deployed.

   • 2022 April 18, Paul Withers, “Putin chemical weapon horror: Ukrainian mayor says 'remains' of sarin found after retreat”, in Daily Express‎^[3]:

     Trostianets mayor Yuriy Bova said officials had discovered traces of the deadly substance sarin and other chemical substances. Sarin is a clear and odourless substance that is classed as a potentially lethal nerve agent.

Derived terms

• cyclosarin

Translations

nerve gas

• Arabic: سَارِين m (sārīn)
• Armenian: զարին (hy) (zarin)
• Belarusian: зары́н m (zarýn)
• Bengali: সারিন (śarin)
• Bulgarian: зари́н m (zarín)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沙林 (zh) (shālín)

• Estonian: sariin
• Finnish: sariini (fi)
• French: sarin (fr) m
• Georgian: ზარინი (zarini)
• German: Sarin (de) n
• Greek: σαρίν (el) n (sarín)
• Japanese: サリン (ja) (sarin)
• Korean: 사린 (ko) (sarin)
• Latin: sarinum n
• Persian: سارین (sârin)
• Portuguese: sarin m
• Russian: зари́н (ru) m (zarín)
• Spanish: sarín m
• Swedish: sarin (sv) n
• Turkish: sarin
• Ukrainian: зари́н m (zarýn)

Anagrams

• Nairs, Nasir, Rains, Risan, arnis, naris, nasri, rains, ranis, siRNA, sirna

Finnish

Noun

sarin

1. genitive singular of sari

Anagrams

• risan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁɛ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

sarin m (uncountable)

1. sarin

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sarin.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈɾĩ/

Noun

sarin m (uncountable)

1. sarin (a neurotoxin used as a chemical weapon)

Further reading

• “sarin”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sarin”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Sarin.

Noun

sarin n (uncountable)

1. sarin (neurotoxin)

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sarin	sarinul
genitive-dative	sarin	sarinului
vocative	sarinule

References

• sarin in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Swedish

Noun

sarin

1. definite singular of sari