camphor

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EtymologyEdit

From Old French camphore or Medieval Latin camphora, from Arabic كافور, via an Austronesian language such as Malay kapur from Sanskrit कर्पूर ‎(karpūra). It is possible that the Sanskrit term was borrowed from Malay rather than vice versa.

PronunciationEdit

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmfɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmfə/

NounEdit

camphor ‎(countable and uncountable, plural camphors)

1. (organic chemistry) A white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone, with a strong pungent odour, used in pharmacy.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X

     I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.

Derived termsEdit

• camphory

TranslationsEdit

white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone

• Acehnese: kapur
• Arabic: كَافُور ‎(kāfūr)
• Armenian: կամֆորա (hy) ‎(kamfora), քափուր (hy) ‎(kʿapʿur)
• Catalan: càmfora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 樟腦 (zh), 樟脑 (zh) ‎(zhāngnǎo)

• Czech: kafr m
• Dhivehi: ކާފޫރު ‎(kāfūru)
• Esperanto: kamforo (eo)
• Faroese: kamfur n
• Finnish: kamferi
• French: camphre (fr) m
• German: Kampfer (de) m, (scientific) Campher m
• Greek: καμφορά (el) f ‎(kamforá)
• Gujarati: કપૂર ‎(kapūr)
• Hindi: कपूर (hi) ‎(kapūr)
• Hungarian: kámfor (hu)
• Icelandic: kamfóra f
• Indonesian: kapur barus (id), kamper (id)
• Italian: canfora (it) f
• Japanese: 樟脳 ‎(しょうのう, shōnō), カンフル ‎(kanfuru)
• Kannada: ಕರ್ಪೂರ (kn) ‎(karpūra)
• Khmer: កប៌ូរ (km) ‎(kaaboo)
• Korean: 장뇌 ‎(jangnoe) (樟腦)

• Malagasy: ravintsara (mg)
• Malay: kapur barus
• Malayalam: പച്ചക്കര്‍പ്പൂരം ‎(paccakkar‍ppūraṃ), കര്‍പ്പൂരം ‎(kar‍ppūraṃ)
• Marathi: कापूर ‎(kāpūr)
• Middle Persian: kʾp̄wl ‎(kāpūr)
• Mongolian: гавар (mn) ‎(gavar), камфор (mn) ‎(kamfor) (scientific)
• Nepali: कपुर ‎(kapur)
• Persian: كافور ‎(kâfur)
• Polish: kamfora (pl) f
• Portuguese: cânfora f
• Romanian: camfor (ro) n
• Russian: камфара́ (ru) f ‎(kamfará), ка́мфора (ru) f ‎(kámfora)
• Sanskrit: कर्पूरम् ‎(karpūram)
• Sindhi: काफ़ूर ‎(kāfūr)
• Sinhalese: කපුරු ‎(kapuru)
• Spanish: alcanfor m
• Swahili: kafuri
• Tagalog: alkampor (tl)
• Tamil: கற்பூரம் (ta) ‎(kaṟpūram)
• Telugu: కర్పూరము (te) ‎(karpūramu)
• Vietnamese: long não (vi) (龍腦)

Derived termsEdit

• camphorate
• camphorated
• camphoraceous
• camphor tree