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)
• 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)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: desinfeksjonsmiddel n

  Nynorsk: desinfeksjonsmiddel n

• Occitan: desinfectant m
• Portuguese: desinfetante 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)