disinfectant

English

Etymology

English disinfect +‎ -ant. Borrowed from French désinfectant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪs.ɪnˈfɛktənt/

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Adjective

disinfectant (not comparable)

1. Serving to kill germs or viruses.

   I washed repeatedly with a disinfectant soap but I still caught the flu.

Translations

of a substance which kills germs and/or viruses

Catalan: desinfectant Chinese: Mandarin: 消毒劑 / 消毒剂 (zh) (Xiāodú jì) Czech: dezinfekční (cs) Danish: desinficerende Finnish: desinfiointiaine (fi) Galician: desinfectante German: desinfizierend (de) Greek: απολυμαντικός (el) (apolymantikós) Maori: patu huakita Occitan: desinfectant

Noun

disinfectant (countable and uncountable, plural disinfectants)

1. A substance that kills germs or viruses.

   The scalpels were soaked in disinfectant before the operation so disease wouldn't be spread.

Derived terms

• disinfectant time
• sunlight is the best disinfectant

Translations

A substance which kills germs and/or viruses

Arabic: مُطَهِّر m (muṭahhir) Armenian: ախտահանիչ միջոց (axtahaničʻ miǰocʻ), մանրէասպան միջոց (manrēaspan miǰocʻ) Belarusian: дэзінфекцыйны сродак m (dezinfjekcyjny sródak), дэзінфектант m (dezinfjektant) Catalan: desinfectant m Chinese: Mandarin: 消毒劑 / 消毒剂 (zh) (xiāodújì) Czech: dezinfekční prostředek m Danish: desinfektionsmiddel n Dutch: ontsmettingsmiddel (nl) n, antisepticum (nl) n, desinfectans (nl) n French: désinfectant (fr) m Galician: desinfectante m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Desinfektionsmittel (de) n Greek: απολυμαντικό (el) n (apolymantikó) Hindi: निस्संक्रामक f (nissaṅkrāmak) Indonesian: disinfektan (id) Italian: disinfettante (it) m Japanese: 消毒剤 (しょうどくざい, shōdokuzai) Kazakh: зарарсыздандырғыш (zararsyzdandyrğyş) Korean: 소독제(消毒劑) (ko) (sodokje) Luxembourgish: Desinfektiounsmëttel n Malay: penyahkuman, disinfektan (ms) Maori: (rongoā) patu huakita Norwegian: Bokmål: desinfeksjonsmiddel n Nynorsk: desinfeksjonsmiddel n Occitan: desinfectant m Portuguese: desinfetante (pt) m Romanian: dezinfectant (ro) n Russian: дезинфици́рующее сре́дство n (dezinficírujuščeje srédstvo) Spanish: desinfectante (es) m Swedish: desinfektionsmedel (sv) n Tagalog: pandes-impekta Turkish: dezenfektan (tr) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: thuốc tẩy uế

See also

• antiseptic or antibiotic (when used on living organisms)