ampoule

See also: ampoulé

English

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ampoule

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• ampul, ampule

Etymology

Borrowed from French ampoule. Etymologically equivalent to amphora +‎ -ule/-le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.puːl/

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• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.pjuːl/

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• Hyphenation: am‧poule

Noun

ampoule (plural ampoules)

1. A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection.

Translations

small glass vial hermetically sealed

Albanian: ampulë (sq) f Amharic: አምፖል (ʾämpol) Arabic: أَمْبُولَة f (ʔambūla) Armenian: ամպուլա (hy) (ampula) Azerbaijani: ampula Belarusian: а́мпула f (ámpula) Bulgarian: а́мпула (bg) f (ámpula) Chinese: Cantonese: 安瓿 (on1 pau2) Mandarin: 安瓿 (zh) (ānbù) Czech: ampulka (cs) f Danish: ampul (da) c Dutch: ampul (nl) f Esperanto: ampolo Estonian: ampull Finnish: ampulli (fi) French: ampoule (fr) f Georgian: ამპულა (amṗula) German: Ampulle (de) f Greek: αμπούλα (el) f (ampoúla) Hebrew: אַמְפּוּלָה (he) f (ampúla) Hungarian: ampulla (hu) Icelandic: ampúla f, púla f, lyfjabiða f, lykja f Indonesian: ampul (id) Italian: ampolla (it) f Japanese: アンプル (ja) (anpuru) Kazakh: ампула (ampula) Khmer: អំពូល (ʼɑmpuul) Korean: 앰풀 (aempul) Kyrgyz: ампула (ampula) Latvian: ampula f Lithuanian: ampulė f Macedonian: ампула f (ampula) Malay: ampul (ms) Mongolian: Cyrillic: ампул (ampul) Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠫᠦᠯ (ampül) Norwegian: Bokmål: ampulle m Nynorsk: ampulle m Persian: آمپول (fa) (âmpul) Polish: ampułka (pl) f Portuguese: ampola (pt) f Romanian: ampulă (ro) f Russian: а́мпула (ru) f (ámpula) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: а̏мпула f Roman: ȁmpula (sh) f Slovak: ampulka f Slovene: ampula f Spanish: ampolla (es) f, ámpula f Swedish: ampull (sv) c Tajik: ампула (ampula) Tigrinya: ኣምፑል (ʾampul) Turkish: ampul (tr), ilaç ampulü, enjeksiyon ampulü Turkmen: ampula (tk) Ukrainian: а́мпула (uk) f (ámpula) Uzbek: ampula (uz) Vietnamese: ống thuốc (vi), ămpun

French

Etymology

From Latin ampulla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pul/

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Noun

ampoule f (plural ampoules)

1. light bulb
2. ampoule
3. blister
4. (Cajun) pimple, zit

Descendants

• → English: ampoule
• → Moore: ãmpulli
• → Persian: آمپول (âmpul)
• → Turkish: ampul
  • → Laz: ამფული (ampuli)

Further reading

• “ampoule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.