arginine

English

Etymology

From German Arginin, from Ancient Greek ἄργυρος (árguros, “silver”) and ἀργινόεις (arginóeis, “silvery, brightly shining”) in reference to arginine nitrate crystals' silver-white appearance when first refined from lupin seedlings by Ernst Schulze and Ernst Steiger in 1886.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹɡɪniːn/

Noun

arginine (countable and uncountable, plural arginines)

1. An amino acid found in animal foods that plays an important role in several physiological processes.

Synonyms

• Arg

Derived terms

• argininemia
• benzoylarginine
• boroarginine
• diarginine
• homoarginine
• hyperargininemia
• hypoargininemia
• ketoarginine
• leucylarginine
• methylarginine
• nitroarginine
• oligoarginine
• peptidylarginine
• phosphoarginine
• polyarginine
• vinylarginine

 

Translations

an amino acid

• Catalan: arginina
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 精氨酸 (zh) (jīng'ānsuān)

• Czech: arginin m
• Dutch: arginine (nl)
• Finnish: arginiini
• French: arginine (fr)
• Galician: arxinina f
• German: Arginin (de)
• Greek: αργινίνη (el) f (arginíni)
• Hebrew: ארגינין (arginin)
• Hungarian: arginin (hu)
• Irish: argainín m
• Italian: arginina (it)
• Japanese: アルギニン (aruginin)
• Kabuverdianu:

  ALUPEC: arjinina

  Badiu: arjinina

  São Vicente: arginina

• Kazakh: аргинин (arginin)
• Kyrgyz: аргинин (arginin)
• Latin: arginina
• Latvian: arginīns
• Lithuanian: argininas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Arginin
• Persian: آرژینین (âržinin)
• Polish: arginina f
• Portuguese: arginina
• Romanian: arginină (ro) f
• Russian: аргини́н (ru) (arginín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аргѝнӣн m

  Roman: argìnīn (sh)

• Slovak: arginín
• Spanish: arginina (es) f
• Swedish: arginin (sv)
• Turkish: arginin
• Ukrainian: аргінін (arhinin)

Anagrams

• Nigerian, geraniin

Italian

Noun

arginine f

1. plural of arginina

Anagrams

• ginnerai, nigerina, rinnegai