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English
Etymology
Genericized trademark of German Aspirin, from acetylierte Spirsäure (literally “acetylated spiraeic acid”). The trade name Aspirin is a registered trademark in some countries, but has entered the English language in generic usage, as various German trademarks were nullified in the United States after World War I (see also heroin).
Pronunciation
Noun
aspirin (countable and uncountable, plural aspirins)
- (uncountable, organic chemistry, pharmacology) an analgesic drug, acetylsalicylic acid
- Synonyms: acetylsalicylic acid, ASA
- Hypernym: NSAID
- Coordinate terms: Tylenol/tylenol, paracetamol, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, codeine
- (countable) a tablet containing this substance
1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 107:"It nearly drove me insane. I took heaven alone knows how many aspirins."
Derived terms
Translations
analgesic drug
- Albanian: aspirinë (sq)
- Arabic: أَسْبِرِين (ar) m (ʔasbirīn)
- Armenian: ասպիրին (hy) (aspirin)
- Belarusian: аспіры́н m (aspirýn)
- Bulgarian: аспири́н m (aspirín)
- Catalan: aspirina f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 阿士匹靈/阿士匹灵 (aa3 si6 pat1 ling4)
- Hakka: 阿斯匹靈/阿斯匹灵 (à-sṳ-phi-lín)
- Mandarin: 阿斯匹靈/阿斯匹灵 (zh) (āsīpīlíng, āsīpǐlíng), 阿司匹靈/阿司匹灵 (zh) (āsīpīlíng, āsīpǐlíng), 阿司匹林 (zh) (āsīpǐlín, āsīpīlín), 阿斯匹林 (zh) (āsīpīlín, āsīpǐlín)
- Czech: aspirin (cs) m
- Dutch: aspirine (nl)
- Esperanto: aspirino
- Estonian: aspiriin (et)
- Finnish: aspiriini (fi)
- French: aspirine (fr) f
- Galician: aspirina (gl) f
- Georgian: ასპირინი (asṗirini)
- German: Aspirin (de) n
- Greek: ασπιρίνη (el) f (aspiríni)
- Haitian Creole: aspirin
- Hebrew: אַסְפִּירִין m (aspirín)
- Hindi: एस्पिरिन m (espirin)
- Hungarian: aszpirin (hu)
- Indonesian: aspirin (id), asam asetilsalisilat (id)
- Italian: aspirina (it) f
- Japanese: アスピリン (ja) (asupirin)
- Khmer: អាស្ពីរីន (ʼaaspiiriin)
- Korean: 아스피린 (ko) (aseupirin)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: aspirin m, acetylsalisylsyre m or f
- Polish: aspiryna (pl) f
- Portuguese: aspirina (pt) f
- Romanian: aspirină (ro) f
- Russian: аспири́н (ru) m (aspirín)
- Spanish: aspirina (es) f, aspirinar f
- Swahili: aspirini
- Tagalog: aspirina
- Thai: แอสไพริน (ɛ́ɛs-pai-rin)
- Ukrainian: аспіри́н (uk) m (aspirýn)
- Yiddish: אַספּירין f (aspirin)
- Zhuang: ahswhbizlinz
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tablet containing acetylsalicylic acid
Further reading
Anagrams
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
aspirin
- inflection of aspirar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
aspirin m inan
- aspirin
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch aspirine, from the German trademark Aspirin, from acetylierte Spirsäure (literally “acetylated spiraeic acid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: as‧pi‧rin
Noun
aspirin (first-person possessive aspirinku, second-person possessive aspirinmu, third-person possessive aspirinnya)
- (pharmacology) aspirin
- Synonym: asam asetilsalisilat
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aspǐriːn/
- Hyphenation: a‧spi‧rin
Noun
aspìrīn m (Cyrillic spelling аспѝрӣн)
- aspirin
Declension
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from English aspirin, from the genericized trademark of German Aspirin. Doublet of aspirina.
Pronunciation
Noun
áspirín (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜐ᜔ᜉᜒᜇᜒᜈ᜔)
- aspirin
- Synonym: aspirina
Further reading
- “aspirin”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018