diazepam

See also: diazepám

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

diazepam

Wikipedia

Etymology

From (benzo)diazep(ine) +‎ am(ide).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dʌɪˈaz.ɪ.pam/, /dʌɪˈeɪ.zɪ.pam/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /daɪˈæz.əˌpæm/

  • Audio (US):

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Noun

diazepam (countable and uncountable, plural diazepams)

1. (pharmacology) A tranquilizing muscle relaxant drug (trademark Valium) used mainly to relieve anxiety.
   • 2001: The most effective anti-anxiety drugs (tranquillizers) are the benzodiazepines, epitomized by diazepam (Valium®). — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 57)

Derived terms

• -azepam
• fludiazepam
• lofendazam
• nordazepam

Translations

minor tranquillizer

Chinese: Mandarin: 地西泮 (zh) (dìxīpàn) Dutch: diazepam (nl) Finnish: diatsepaami (fi) French: diazépam (fr) m German: Diazepam (de) n Greek: διαζεπάμη f (diazepámi) Hungarian: diazepám (hu) Japanese: ジアゼパム (jiazepamu) Kazakh: диазепам (diazepam) Persian: دیازپام Polish: diazepam (pl) m, relanium (pl) n Portuguese: diazepam m Russian: диазепа́м (ru) m (diazepám), сибазо́н m (sibazón), рела́ниум m (relánium), седуксе́н (ru) m (seduksén) Spanish: diazepam m Thai: ไดแอซิแพม Turkish: diazepam

References

• “diazepam”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “diazepam”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

diazepam

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from English diazepam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaˈzɛ.pam/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛpam
• Syllabification: dia‧ze‧pam

Noun

diazepam m inan

1. (pharmacology) diazepam

   Synonym: relanium

Declension

Declension of diazepam

	singular
nominative	diazepam
genitive	diazepamu
dative	diazepamowi
accusative	diazepam
instrumental	diazepamem
locative	diazepamie
vocative	diazepamie

Further reading

• diazepam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.a.zeˈpɐ̃/ [d͡ʒɪ.a.zeˈpɐ̃], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒja.zeˈpɐ̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /di.ɐ.zɨˈpɐ̃/, (faster pronunciation) /djɐ.zɨˈpɐ̃/

Noun

diazepam m (uncountable)

1. (pharmacology) diazepam (minor tranquillizer, benzodiazepine)

Further reading

• “diazepam”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “diazepam”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English diazepam.

Noun

diazepam n (plural diazepame)

1. diazepam

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	diazepam	diazepamul		diazepame	diazepamele
genitive-dative	diazepam	diazepamului		diazepame	diazepamelor
vocative	diazepamule			diazepamelor

References

• diazepam in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaθeˈpam/ [d̪ja.θeˈpãm] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /djaseˈpam/ [d̪ja.seˈpãm] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: dia‧ze‧pam

Noun

diazepam m (plural diazepams)

1. diazepam