chloroform

See also: Chloroform

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chloroforme.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈklɔːɹə(ʊ)̩fɔː(ɹ)m/

Noun

chloroform (uncountable)

(chemistry) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl₃; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.

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Translations

(chemistry) an anesthetic

Arabic: كْلُورُوفُورْم‎ m (klurufūrm)
Basque: kloroformo
Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: cloroform (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 氯仿 (luk⁶ fong²)

Mandarin: 氯仿 (zh) (lǜfǎng), 哥羅仿 (zh), 哥罗仿 (zh) (gēluófǎng)
Czech: chloroform m
Esperanto: kloroformo
Finnish: kloroformi (fi)
French: chloroforme (fr) m
German: Chloroform (de) n
Hindi: क्लोरोफार्म (hi) m (klorophārma)
Hungarian: kloroform (hu)
Icelandic: klóróform n
Italian: cloroformio (it) m
Japanese: クロロホルム (kurorohorumu)

Korean: 클로로포름 (keulloroporeum)
Maori: kororohama
Polish: chloroform (pl) m
Portuguese: clorofórmio (pt) m
Russian: хлорофо́рм (ru) m (xlorofórm)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кло̏роформ m, хло̏роформ m

Roman: klȍroform (sh) m, hloroform m
Slovene: klorofórm m
Spanish: cloroformo (es) m
Swedish: kloroform (sv) c
Tagalog: kloropormo
Thai: คลอโรฟอร์ม (th)
Turkish: kloroform (tr)
Ukrainian: хлорофо́рм m (xlorofórm)

Verb

chloroform (third-person singular simple present chloroforms, present participle chloroforming, simple past and past participle chloroformed)

To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.

Related terms

Translations

to treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform

Finnish: nukuttaa kloloformilla, tainnuttaa kloloformilla
French: chloroformer (fr)
Hungarian: kloroformoz, kloroformmal elaltat

Italian: cloroformizzare (it)
Spanish: cloroformizar (es)

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xlɔˈrɔ.fɔrm/

Noun

chloroform m inan

chloroform CHCl₃

Declension

declension of chloroform

	singular
nominative	chloroform
genitive	chloroformu
dative	chloroformowi
accusative	chloroform
instrumental	chloroformem
locative	chloroformie
vocative	chloroformie

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