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English
Etymology
From Latin albūmen (“white of an egg”), from albus (“white”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos (“white”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈælbjʊmən/, /ælˈbjuːmən/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈalbjʊmɪn/
- Rhymes: -uːmən
- Hyphenation: al‧bu‧men
Noun
albumen (countable and uncountable, plural albumens or albumina)
- The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.
- Synonyms: egg white, glair
- Coordinate term: yolk
1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 25:The various elements found in food are the following: Starch, sugar, fats, albumen, mineral substances, indigestible substances.
- (archaic) The endosperm of flowering plants.
Derived terms
Translations
white part of an egg
- Arabic: غِرْقِل m (ḡirqil), آح البَيْض m (ʔāḥ al-bayḍ), زُلَال m (zulāl)
- Moroccan Arabic: بياض البيض (byāḍ el-bayḍ, byāḍ el-bīḍ), بياض m (bayāḍ)
- Armenian: սպիտակուց (hy) (spitakucʻ)
- Belarusian: бяло́к m (bjalók)
- Bengali: সফেদী (śophedi)
- Bulgarian: белтък (bg) m (beltǎk), бялото на яйцето, бяло (bg) n (bjalo)
- Catalan: albumen (ca) m, clara (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 蛋白 (daan6-2 baak6)
- Hakka: 卵白 (lón-pha̍k)
- Hokkien: 卵清 (nn̄g-chheng), 白仁 (pe̍h-jîn, pe̍h-lîn), 卵白 (zh-min-nan) (nn̄g-pe̍h)
- Mandarin: 蛋白 (zh) (dànbái), 蛋清 (zh) (dànqīng), 卵白 (zh) (luǎnbái)
- Czech: bílek (cs) m
- Danish: hvide c, æggehvide (da) c
- Dutch: eiwit (nl) n
- Esperanto: albumeno
- Faroese: hvíti m, eggjahvíti m
- Finnish: valkuainen (fi), munanvalkuainen (fi)
- French: glaire (fr), blanc d’œuf (fr) m, blanc (fr), albumen (fr)
- Galician: clara f, albume m
- German: Eiweiß (de) n, Albumen (de)
- Greek: λεύκωμα (el) n (léfkoma), ασπράδι (el) n (asprádi)
- Ancient: λευκόν n (leukón)
- Hebrew: חֶלְבּוֹן (he) m (khelbón)
- Hungarian: tojásfehérje (hu), fehérje (hu)
- Icelandic: eggjahvíta (is) f, hvíta í eggi f
- Ido: albumeno (io)
- Indonesian: putih telur (id)
- Ingrian: valkulain, munanvalkulain
- Irish: gealacán m, gealacán uibhe m, albaimín m
- Italian: albume (it) m, chiara (it) f, bianco d'uovo m
- Japanese: 卵白 (ja) (らんぱく, ranpaku), 白身 (ja) (しろみ, shiromi), 蛋白 (ja) (たんぱく, tanpaku)
- Korean: 흰자위 (huinjawi), 난백(卵白) (nanbaek), 단백(蛋白) (ko) (danbaek)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: سپێناو (spênav)
- Northern Kurdish: spîk (ku) f, spîçk (ku) f
- Latin: albūmen, albāmentum
- Lithuanian: baltymas m
- Macedonian: белка f (belka)
- Malagasy: tapotsiny (mg)
- Malay: albumen, putih telur (ms)
- Maltese: l-abjad tal-bajd
- Manchu: ᡧᠣᡥᠣ (šoho)
- Maori: whakakahu
- Mongolian: уураг (mn) (uurag)
- Norman: blianc d'oeu m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: eggehvite m, eggekvite m, hvite m, kvite m
- Nynorsk: eggekvite f, kvite m
- Pannonian Rusyn: бильчок m (bilʹčok)
- Pashto: سپين (ps) m pl (spin)
- Persian: سفیده (fa) (sefide)
- Plautdietsch: Eiawitt n, Wits m
- Polish: białko (pl) n
- Portuguese: clara (pt) f, albúmen m
- Romanian: albuș (ro) n
- Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) alv d'ov f, (Puter) alv d'öv f, (Vallader) alb d'öv f, (Sursilvan) clar d'iev f, (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) cler d'ov f, (Puter, Vallader) cler d'öv f
- Russian: бело́к (ru) m (belók)
- Scottish Gaelic: gealagan m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: беланце n, бјеланце n, белањак m, бјелањак m, беланац m, бјеланац m
- Roman: belance (sh) n, bjelance (sh) n, belanjak (sh) m, bjelanjak (sh) m, belanac m, bjelanac m
- Slovak: bielok m
- Slovene: beljak (sl) m
- Spanish: albumen (es) m, clara (es) f
- Sundanese: bobodas endog, bobodas
- Swedish: äggvita (sv) c, vita (sv) c
- Tagalog: puti ng itlog
- Thai: ไข่ขาว (th) (khaì khaǎo)
- Turkish: ak (tr), beyaz (tr), yumurta akı (tr)
- Ukrainian: біло́к (uk) m (bilók), яє́чний біло́к m (jajéčnyj bilók)
- Venetan: ciàra f
- Vietnamese: lòng trắng
- Welsh: gwynnwy m
- Yiddish: ווײַסל n (vaysl)
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Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From albus (“white”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
albūmen n (genitive albūminis); third declension
- albumen; the white of an egg
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- “albumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- albumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French albumen.
Noun
albumen n (uncountable)
- albumen
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin albūmen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈbumen/
- Rhymes: -umen
- Syllabification: al‧bu‧men
Noun
albumen m (plural albúmenes)
- egg white, albumen
- Synonym: clara
Further reading
Swedish
Noun
albumen
- definite plural of album