chromosome

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• UK: /ˈkɹəʊ.məˌsəʊm/
  Play
• US: /ˈkɹoʊməˌsoʊm/
  Play
• US: /ˈkɹoʊməˌzoʊm/
  Play
• UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: K R OW1 M AH0 S OW2 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET 2: K R OW1 M AH0 Z OW2 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

19th century: from German Chromosom, ultimately from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”) + σῶμα (sôma, “body”) (because they are stained under the microscope). Equivalent to chromo- + -some.

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kromozom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Arabic: كْرُومُوسُوم (krumusūm) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Arabic: صِبْغِيّ (ṣibḡiyy) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Armenian: քրոմոսոմ (kʻromosom) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Asturian: cromosoma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Azerbaijani: xromosom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Belarusian: храмасо́ма (xramasóma) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Bengali: তন্তুসদৃশ বস্তু (tontuśodriś bostu) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Bulgarian: хромозо́ма (hromozóma) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Bulgarian: хромозо́м (hromozóm) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Burmese: ခရိုမိုဆုမ်း (hka.ruimuihcum:) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Catalan: cromosoma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Eastern Min Chinese: 染色體 /染色体 (niēng sáik tā̤) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Hakka Chinese: 染色體 /染色体 (ngiam-set-thí) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Chinese: 染色體 /染色体 (liám-sek-thé) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Chinese Mandarin: 染色體 /染色体 (rǎnsètǐ) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Czech: chromozom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Danish: kromosom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Dutch: chromosoom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Esperanto: kromosomo — structure in the cell nucleus
• Estonian: kromosoom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Finnish: kromosomi — structure in the cell nucleus
• French: chromosome — structure in the cell nucleus
• West-Frisian: gromosoom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Galician: cromosoma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Georgian: ქრომოსომა (kromosoma) — structure in the cell nucleus
• German: Chromosom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Greek: χρωμόσωμα (chromósoma) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Gujarati: રંગસૂત્ર (raṅgsūtra) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Hebrew: כְרוֹמוֹזוֹם (kromosom) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Hindi: गुणसूत्र (guṇsūtra) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Hindi: गुण सूत्र (guṇ sūtra) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Hungarian: kromoszóma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Icelandic: litningur — structure in the cell nucleus
• Ido: kromosomo — structure in the cell nucleus
• Indonesian: kromosom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Irish: crómasóm — structure in the cell nucleus
• Italian: cromosoma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Japanese: 染色体 (senshokutai) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Kannada: ವರ್ಣತಂತು (varṇatantu) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Kazakh: хромосома (xromosoma) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Khmer: វណ្ណាង្គ (vonnang) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Khmer: ក្រូម៉ូសូម (kroumousoum) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Korean: 염색체 (yeomsaekche) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Korean: 물들체 (muldeulche) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Kyrgyz: хромосома (hromosoma) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Lao: ກະໂລໂມຊົມ (ka lō mō som) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Latvian: hromosoma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Lithuanian: chromosoma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Macedonian: хромозом (hromozom) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Māori: pūira — structure in the cell nucleus
• Marathi: गुणसूत्र (guṇasūtra) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Mongolian: хромосом (xromosom) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Mongolian: будагт цогц (budagt cogc) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Mongolian: ᠾᠷᠣᠮᠰᠣᠮ (hromsom) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠳᠤᠭᠲᠤ ᠴᠣᠭᠴᠠ (buduɣtu čoɣča) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Nepali: गुणसूत्र (guṇasūtra) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Norwegian Bokmål: kromosom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kromosom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Occitan: cromosòma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Persian: رنگین تن (rangin tan) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Persian: فامتن (fāmtan) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Polish: chromosom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Portuguese: cromossoma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Portuguese: cromossomo — structure in the cell nucleus
• Punjabi: ਗੁਣਸੂਤਰ (guṇsūtar) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Romanian: cromozom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Russian: хромосо́ма (xromosóma) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Serbo-Croatian: хромозом — structure in the cell nucleus
• Serbo-Croatian: hromozom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Slovak: chromozóm — structure in the cell nucleus
• Slovene: kromosom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Spanish: cromosoma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Swahili: chembeuzi — structure in the cell nucleus
• Swedish: kromosom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Tagalog: kromosoma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Tajik: хромосома (xromosoma) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Tamil: நிறப்புரி (niṟappuri) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Tamil: நிறமூர்த்தம் (niṟamūrttam) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Telugu: వారసవాహిక (vārasavāhika) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Thai: โครโมโซม (kroo-moo-soom) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Turkish: kromozom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Ukrainian: хромосо́ма (xromosóma) — structure in the cell nucleus
• Uzbek: xromosoma — structure in the cell nucleus
• Vietnamese: chất sinh sắt — structure in the cell nucleus
• Vietnamese: nhiểm sắc thể — structure in the cell nucleus
• Volapük: kromosom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Welsh: cromosom — structure in the cell nucleus
• Yiddish: כראָמאָסאָם (khromosom) — structure in the cell nucleus