gelatin

English

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gelatin

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Alternative forms

• gelatine

Etymology

Borrowed from French gélatine (“jelly, gel”), from Italian gelatina (“jelly, gel”), from gelare (“to freeze”), from Latin gelō (“to freeze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛlətɪn/, (less often) /ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/

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Noun

gelatin (countable and uncountable, plural gelatins)

1. A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc.
2. An edible jelly made from this material.
3. A thin, translucent membrane used as a filter for photography or for theatrical lighting effects.
   • 2010 April, Frank Zullo, “Imaging Prehistoric Sunrises”, in Astronomy, volume 38, number 4, page 50:

     For both images I placed a Kodak 4.0 neutral-density gelatin filter over the lens to reduce the Sun's brightness.

Synonyms

• E441 when used as a gelling agent

Derived terms

• ballistic gelatin
• blasting gelatin
• bromogelatin
• degelatinise
• explosive gelatin
• gel
• gelatigenous
• gelatinase
• gelatinate
• gelatination
• gelatini
• gelatiniferous
• gelatiniform
• gelatinify
• gelatinisation
• gelatinisation, gelatinization
• gelatinise, gelatinize
• gelatinization
• gelatinlike
• gelatinoid
• gelatinolytic
• gelatinous
• gelatin salad
• metagelatin
• nitrogelatin
• photogelatin
• progelatinase

Translations

protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen

Albanian: xhelatinë (sq) f Arabic: جِيلَاتِين m (jīlātīn), جِيلَاتِين m (jilatīn) Bulgarian: желатин (bg) m (želatin) Catalan: gelatina (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 魚膠 / 鱼胶 (jyu4 gaau1) Mandarin: 明膠 / 明胶 (zh) (míngjiāo), 吉利丁 (jílìdīng) Czech: želatina f Dutch: gelatine (nl) Finnish: liivate (fi), gelatiini (fi) French: gélatine (fr) f Galician: xelatina (gl) f Georgian: ჟელატინი (želaṭini) German: Gelatine (de) f Hungarian: zselatin (hu) Indonesian: agar (id) Irish: geilitín m Japanese: ゼラチン (ja) (zerachin) Kazakh: желатин (jelatin) Korean: 젤라틴 (jellatin) Kyrgyz: желатин (ky) (jelatin) Maori: tetepe, keretini Mongolian: царцмаг (mn) (carcmag) Nahuatl: necuhtlachihchihualpitzac Persian: ژلاتین (fa) (želâtin) Polish: żelatyna (pl) f Portuguese: gelatina (pt) f Romanian: gelatină (ro) f Russian: желати́н (ru) m (želatín) Spanish: gelatina (es) f Swedish: gelatin (sv) n Thai: เจลาติน (jee-laa-dtin) Turkish: jelatin (tr) Turkmen: gelatin Ukrainian: желати́н m (želatýn) Vietnamese: gelatin (vi)

edible jelly

Albanian: xhelatinë (sq) f Bulgarian: желе (bg) n (žele), пелте n (pelte) Catalan: gelatina (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: gelatine (nl) m or f Esperanto: gelateno Finnish: liivate (fi) Georgian: ჟელატინი (želaṭini) German: Gelatine (de) f Greek: ζελατίνη (el) (zelatíni) Gujarati: સરેશ (sareś) Hawaiian: ʻūnina Irish: geilitín m Kazakh: желатин (jelatin) Ottoman Turkish: پختی (pıhtı) Polish: żelatyna (pl) f Portuguese: gelatina (pt) f Romanian: gelatină (ro) f Russian: желати́н (ru) m (želatín) Spanish: gelatina (es) f Swedish: gelatin (sv) Tagalog: helatina Thai: เจลาติน (jee-laa-dtin), เยลลี, เจลลี Turkish: jöle (tr) Ukrainian: желати́н m (želatýn)

translucent membrane

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: gelatiini (fi) Portuguese: gelatina (pt) f Spanish: gelatina (es) f Turkish: jelatin (tr)

Verb

gelatin (third-person singular simple present gelatins, present participle gelatining, simple past and past participle gelatined)

1. (transitive) To coat with gelatin.

Anagrams

• atingle, elating, genital, langite, tag line, tagline

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

gelatin

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From Latin gelatus via French gélatine.

Pronunciation

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Noun

gelatin m or n (definite singular gelatinen or gelatinet)

1. gelatine or gelatin

References

• “gelatin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin gelatus via French gélatine.

Noun

gelatin m or n (definite singular gelatinen or gelatinet)

1. gelatine or gelatin

References

• “gelatin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

gelatin

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

From Latin gelatus via French gélatine.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

gelatin n (uncountable)

1. gelatine

Declension

Declension of gelatin

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	gelatin	gelatins
	definite	gelatinet	gelatinets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• gelatin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gelatin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gelatin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• gentila