ammonia

English

Etymology

From Latin sal ammoniacus (“salt of Amun, ammonium chloride”), named so because it was found near the temple of (Jupiter) Ammon in Egypt. Ammon derives from Ancient Greek Ἄμμων (Ámmōn), from Egyptian jmn.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ʌˈmon.jʌ/

Noun

ammonia (uncountable)

(inorganic chemistry) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH₃, with a pungent smell and taste.

Synonyms

spirits of hartshorn (obsolete)
volatile alkali (obsolete)

Derived terms

Terms derived from ammonia

Translations

the compound NH₃

Bulgarian: амоняк (bg) (amonjak)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 氨 (on¹), 氨氣, 氨气 (on¹ hei³), 阿摩尼亞, 阿摩尼亚 (aa³ mo¹ nei⁴ aa³) (common name)

Hakka: 氨 (ôn), 阿摩尼亞, 阿摩尼亚 (à-mo-ni-yá) (common name)

Mandarin: 氨 (zh) (ān), 氨氣 (zh), 氨气 (zh) (ānqì), 阿摩尼亞 (zh), 阿摩尼亚 (zh) (āmóníyà) (common name), 安摩尼亞 (zh), 安摩尼亚 (zh) (ānmóníyà) (common name)

Min Nan: 氨 (an), a-mó͘-ní-á
Czech: čpavek (cs) m, amoniak m
Dutch: ammoniak (nl) m
Esperanto: amoniako
Estonian: ammoniaak
Faroese: ammoniakk n
Finnish: ammoniakki (fi)
French: ammoniaque (fr) f, ammoniac (fr) m
German: Ammoniak (de) n
Greek: αμμωνία (el) f (ammonía)
Hungarian: ammónia (hu)
Irish: amóinia f
Italian: ammoniaca (it) f

Japanese: アンモニア (ja) (anmonia)
Latvian: amonjaks m
Maori: haukini
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ammoniakk (no) m

Nynorsk: ammoniakk m
Persian: آمونیاک‎‎ (fa) (âmuniyâk)
Polish: amoniak (pl) m
Portuguese: amoníaco (pt) m, amônia (pt) f
Romanian: amoniac (ro) n
Russian: аммиа́к (ru) m (ammiák)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: амо̀нијак m

Roman: amònijak (sh) m
Slovak: čpavok m, amoniak m
Spanish: amoníaco m
Swedish: ammoniak (sv) c
Turkish: amonyak (tr)

References

ammonia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
ammonia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Amaimon

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