fatty acid

English

Noun

fatty acid (plural fatty acids)

1. (organic chemistry, biochemistry) Any of a class of aliphatic carboxylic acids, of general formula C_nH_2n+1COOH, that occur combined with glycerol as animal or vegetable oils and fats. Only those with an even number of carbon atoms are normally found in natural fats.

Usage notes

1. The above general formula applies to the saturated fatty acids. Remove 2 hydrogen atoms for an unsaturated fatty acid, and 2 hydrogen atoms for every double bond in a polyunsaturated fatty acid.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:fatty acid

Related terms

• acetic acid - C₂
• butyric acid - C₄
• caproic acid - C₆
• caprylic acid - C₈
• capric acid - C₁₀
• lauric acid - C₁₂
• myristic acid - C₁₄
• palmitic acid - C₁₆
• stearic acid - C₁₈
• arachidic acid - C₂₀
• obtusilic acid, caproleic acid - C₁₀ unsaturated
• lauroleic acid, linderic acid - C₁₂ unsaturated
• myristoleic acid, physeteric acid, tsuzuic acid - C₁₄ unsaturated
• palmitoleic acid - C₁₆ unsaturated
• petroselinic acid, oleic acid, vaccenic acid - C₁₈ unsaturated
• gadoleic acid, gondoic acid - C₂₀ unsaturated
• cetoleic acid, erucic acid - C₂₂ unsaturated
• nervonic acid - C₂₄ unsaturated
• elaidic acid - C₁₈ trans-unsaturated
• linoleic acid - C₁₈ diunsaturated
• linolenic acid - C₁₈ polyunsaturated
• arachidonic acid - C₂₀ polyunsaturated

Translations

acid

• Belarusian: тлу́стая кіслата́ f (tlústaja kislatá)
• Bulgarian: ма́стна киселина́ f (mástna kiseliná)
• Catalan: àcid gras m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 脂肪酸 (zi¹ fong¹ syun¹)

  Hokkien: 脂肪酸 (chi-hông-sng, chí-hông-sng)

  Mandarin: 脂肪酸 (zh) (zhīfángsuān), 脂酸 (zh) (zhīsuān)

• Czech: mastná kyselina f
• Danish: fedtsyre c
• Dutch: vetzuur (nl) n
• Faroese: fitisýra f
• Finnish: rasvahappo (fi)
• French: acide gras (fr) m
• Galician: ácido graxo (gl) m
• German: Fettsäure (de) f
• Greek: λιπαρό οξύ n (liparó oxý)
• Hindi: वसीय अम्ल (vasīya amla)
• Hungarian: zsírsav (hu)
• Icelandic: fitusýra (is) f
• Indonesian: asam lemak (id)
• Irish: aigéad sailleach m
• Italian: acido grasso (it)
• Japanese: 脂肪酸 (ja) (しぼうさん, shibōsan)
• Javanese: ꦲꦱꦩ꧀ꦊꦩꦏ꧀ (asam lemak)
• Kannada: ಕೊಬ್ಬಿನ ಆಮ್ಲ (kobbina āmla)
• Kazakh: майлы қышқыл (maily qyşqyl)
• Khmer: អាស៊ីតខ្លាញ់ (ʼaasiit khlañ)
• Korean: 지방산(脂肪酸) (ko) (jibangsan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: asîda çewrî f

• Latvian: taukskābe (lv) f
• Macedonian: масна киселина f (masna kiselina)
• Maori: waikawa ngako
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fettsyre m or f

  Nynorsk: feittsyre f

• Polish: kwas tłuszczowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: ácido graxo (pt) m
• Romanian: acid gras (ro) m
• Russian: жи́рная кислота́ f (žírnaja kislotá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ма̑сна̄ киселѝна f

  Roman: mȃsnā kiselìna f

• Spanish: ácido graso m
• Sundanese: ᮃᮞᮙ᮪ ᮜᮨᮙᮊ᮪ (asam lemak)
• Swedish: fettsyra (sv) c
• Tamil: கொழுப்பு அமிலம் (koḻuppu amilam)
• Thai: กรดไขมัน (gròt-kǎi-man)
• Turkish: yağ asidi (tr)
• Ukrainian: жи́рна кислота́ f (žýrna kyslotá)
• Welsh: asid brasterog m

References

• “fatty acid”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.