syringe

See also: Syringe

English

a syringe with hypodermic needle

Etymology

From Middle French syringe (“syringe”), from Latin sȳringem, accusative of sȳrinx (“reed, panpipe”), from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pipe, syrinx”). Doublet of syrinx.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈɹɪn(d)ʒ/, /ˈsɪɹɪn(d)ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈsɪɹɪnd͡ʒ/

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ
• Hyphenation: sy‧ringe

Noun

syringe (plural syringes)

1. A device used for injecting or drawing fluids through a membrane.
   • 2013 January 2, Lisa Selin Davis, “Is the Medical Community Failing Breastfeeding Moms?”, in Time‎^[1]:

     In Kelly’s case, once the baby was admitted to the hospital, she began to use formula, fed through a syringe—she was told to avoid bottles because the baby would reject the breast.

2. A device consisting of a hypodermic needle, a chamber for containing liquids, and a piston for applying pressure (to inject) or reducing pressure (to draw); a hypodermic syringe.

   an ear syringe

Usage notes

• Syringe mostly refers specifically to medical devices for injecting drugs into a human body or drawing blood from one (or other human fluids), but the broader definition sees occasional use, particularly in specialized fields.

Derived terms

• butterfly syringe
• garden syringe
• gas syringe
• hypodermic syringe
• ink syringe
• meat syringe
• microsyringe
• nanosyringe
• syringeable
• syringeful
• syringeless
• syringelike

Translations

a device used for injecting or drawing fluids through a membrane

• Albanian: shiringë (sq) f
• Azerbaijani: şpris, şırınqa
• Bulgarian: спринцовка (bg) f (sprincovka)
• Catalan: xeringa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 針筒 / 针筒 (zh) (zhēntǒng), 注射器 (zh) (zhùshèqì)

• Danish: sprøjte c
• Finnish: ruisku (fi)
• French: poire (fr) f
• Galician: xiringa f
• German: Spritze (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: κλυστήρ m (klustḗr)

• Indonesian: sepuit (id)
• Japanese: 注射器 (ja) (ちゅうしゃき, chūshaki)
• Māori: pūwero
• Plautdietsch: Spretz f
• Polish: strzykawka (pl) f
• Portuguese: seringa (pt) f
• Russian: спринцо́вка (ru) f (sprincóvka)
• Slovak: striekačka f
• Spanish: jeringa (es) f
• Swahili: sirinji (sw)
• Tagalog: panturok, hiringgilya
• Turkish: şırınga (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: شرنغه (şırınga)

• Vietnamese: xi-lanh (vi), xi lanh (vi)

hypodermic syringe

• Albanian: shiringë (sq) f
• Arabic: حُقْنَة f (ḥuqna), مِحْقَنَة f (miḥqana)

  Moroccan Arabic: إبرة f (ʔibra), برة f (bra), شوكة f (šūka)

• Armenian: ներարկիչ (hy) (nerarkičʻ), շպրից (hy) (špricʻ)
• Asturian: xeringa f
• Azerbaijani: şırınqa f, şpris
• Basque: xiringa
• Belarusian: шпрыц m (špryc)
• Bengali: সিরিঞ্জ (bn) (śirinjo)
• Bulgarian: шприц (bg) m (špric), спринцо́вка (bg) f (sprincóvka)
• Burmese: ပြွတ် (my) (prwat)
• Catalan: xeringa (ca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵙⴳⵏⵉⵜ f (tisgnit)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 注射器 (zyu³ se⁶ hei³)

  Mandarin: 注射器 (zh) (zhùshèqì), 針筒 / 针筒 (zh) (zhēntǒng)

• Czech: injekční stříkačka f, stříkačka (cs) f
• Danish: sprøjte c
• Dutch: injectiespuit (nl) c, spuit (nl) c
• Esperanto: injektilo
• Estonian: prits
• Faroese: sproyta f
• Finnish: injektioruisku
• French: seringue (fr) f
• Galician: xiringa f, xeringa f
• Georgian: შპრიცი (šṗrici)
• German: Spritze (de) f
• Greek: σύριγγα (el) f (sýringa)
• Gujarati: સિરિંજ f (siriñj)
• Hebrew: מַזְרֵק (he) m (mazrék)
• Hindi: सुई (hi) f (suī), सिरिंज f (siriñj)
• Hungarian: fecskendő (hu)
• Icelandic: sprauta (is) f
• Indonesian: semprotan (id), sepuit (id)
• Irish: steallaire f
• Italian: siringa (it) f
• Japanese: 注射器 (ja) (ちゅうしゃき, chūshaki)
• Kannada: ಸಿರಿಂಜ್ (siriñj)
• Kazakh: шприц (şpris)
• Khmer: សឺរ៉ាំង (səɨrang)
• Kongo: ntumbu
• Korean: 주사기(注射器) (ko) (jusagi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şirinqe (ku)

• Kyrgyz: шприц (ky) (şprits)
• Lao: ກ້ອງສີດຢາ (kǭng sīt yā), ກ້ອງສັກຢາ (kǭng sak yā), ກ້ອງສີດ (kǭng sīt), ເຄື່ອງສີດຢາ (khư̄ang sīt yā)
• Latin: sȳrinx f (medical, post-Medieval)
• Latvian: šļirce f
• Lithuanian: švirkštas f
• Macedonian: шприц m (špric)
• Malay: picagari
• Malayalam: സിറിഞ്ചു് (siṟiñcŭ)
• Māori: pūwero
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тариур (mn) (tariur)

• Norman: sérîngue f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sprøyte (no) m or f

• Occitan: seringa (oc) f
• Pashto: پېچکاري (ps) f (pečkārī)
• Persian:

  Dari: پیچْکَارِی (pēčkārī)

  Iranian Persian: سُرَنْگ (sorang)

• Plautdietsch: Spretz f
• Polish: strzykawka (pl) f
• Portuguese: seringa (pt) f
• Romanian: seringă (ro) f
• Russian: шприц (ru) m (špric)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бри̏згалица f, шпри̏ц m

  Latin: brȉzgalica (sh) f, šprȉc (sh) m

• Slovak: striekačka f
• Slovene: brizgalka f, brizga f
• Spanish: jeringa (es) f, jeringuilla f
• Swedish: spruta (sv) c
• Tagalog: hiringgilya, panturok
• Tajik: сӯзан (tg) (süzan), шпритс (šprits), сӯзандору (süzandoru)
• Tamil: மருந்தூசி (ta) (maruntūci)
• Tashelhit: ⵜⵉⵙⴳⵏⵉⵜ f (tisgnit), ⵜⴰⵙⵎⵉ f (tasmi)
• Thai: เข็มฉีดยา (th) (kěm-chìit-yaa-chaa), กระบอกฉีดยา (th) (grà-bɔ̀ɔk-chìit-yaa)
• Turkish: enjektör (tr), şırınga (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: شرنغه (şırınga)

• Turkmen: şpris
• Ukrainian: шприц m (špryc)
• Urdu: مِحْقَنَہ m (mihqana), سِرِنْج f (sirinj)
• Uyghur: شپىرىس (shpiris)
• Uzbek: shprits (uz)
• Vietnamese: ống chích (vi), bơm tiêm (vi), ống tiêm (vi)
• Walloon: sirinke (wa) f
• Welsh: chwistrell (cy), chwistrellau (cy) m
• Yiddish: שפּריץ m (shprits)

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• Norman: ^{(please verify)} êclyiche f (Jersey)

See also

• inject
• intravenous
• needle
• shoot up
• 💉

Verb

syringe (third-person singular simple present syringes, present participle syringing, simple past and past participle syringed)

1. (transitive) To clean or rinse by means of a syringe.

   Have your ears syringed! They're so dirty!

2. (transitive) To inject by means of a syringe.

Translations

to clean or rinse

• Finnish: ruiskuttaa (fi)
• German: ausspülen (de)
• Romanian: clăti (ro)

to inject

• Bulgarian: инжектирам (bg) (inžektiram)
• Finnish: ruiskuttaa (fi)
• German: spritzen (de), injizieren (de)
• Romanian: injecta (ro)

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} seringuer (fr)

References

• Category:syringes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Rigneys, Yingers, reysing

French

Alternative forms

• syrinx

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French syringe, from Latin sȳringem, accusative of sȳrinx, from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx).

Cognate with Italian siringe, Portuguese siringe, Spanish siringe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ʁɛ̃ʒ/

Noun

syringe f (plural syringes)

1. syrinx

Related terms

• seringue

Descendants

• → Iranian Persian: سُرَنْگ (sorang)

Further reading

• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “syringe”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “syringe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [syːˈrɪŋ.ɡɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈrin̠ʲ.d͡ʒe]
• Homophone: Sȳringe

Noun

sȳringe f

1. ablative singular of sȳrinx

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin sȳringem, accusative of sȳrinx, from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx).

Cognate with Italian siringe, Portuguese siringe, Spanish siringe.

Noun

syringe f (plural syringes)

1. syringe

   Synonym: seringue

   • 1607, Dictionnaire François-Allemand & Allemand-François, page 380:

     Struͤtze […]. Vne ſyringe. / Struͤtzen […]. Ietter quelque choſe liquide d’une ſyringe.

     Struͤtze […]. A syringe. / Struͤtzen […]. To throw some liquid thing from a syringe.

Related terms

• seringue
• Syringe

Descendants

• → English: syringe
• French: syringe

Old English

Noun

sȳringe

1. inflection of sȳring:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural