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• /fɔː(ɹ)ˈmældɪhaɪd/
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• CMU ARPABET: F AO0 R M AE1 L D AH0 HH AY2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: F ER0 M AE1 L D AH0 HH AY2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English form(yl) Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor. Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor. Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl) Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor. Latin alcoholder. Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin de-der. Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der. German Aldehydbor. English aldehyde English formaldehyde From form(yl) + aldehyde.

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: фармальдэгі́д (farmalʹdehíd) — the organic compound HCHO
• Catalan: formaldehid — the organic compound HCHO
• Chinese Cantonese: 甲醛 (gaap3 cyun4) — the organic compound HCHO
• Chinese Cantonese: 蟻醛 /蚁醛 (ngai5 cyun4) — the organic compound HCHO
• Chinese Mandarin: 甲醛 (jiǎquán) — the organic compound HCHO
• Chinese Mandarin: 蟻醛 /蚁醛 (yǐquán) — the organic compound HCHO
• Czech: formaldehyd — the organic compound HCHO
• Danish: formaldehyd — the organic compound HCHO
• Dutch: formaldehyde — the organic compound HCHO
• Esperanto: formaldehido — the organic compound HCHO
• Finnish: formaldehydi — the organic compound HCHO
• French: formaldéhyde — the organic compound HCHO
• German: Formaldehyd — the organic compound HCHO
• Greek: φορμαλδεΰδη (formaldeÿ́di) — the organic compound HCHO
• Hebrew: פורמלין (formalín) — the organic compound HCHO
• Hindi: वम्रसुव्युद (vamrasuvyud) — the organic compound HCHO
• Hungarian: formaldehid — the organic compound HCHO
• Ido: formaldehido — the organic compound HCHO
• Ido: metanalo — the organic compound HCHO
• Indonesian: formaldehida — the organic compound HCHO
• Italian: formaldeide — the organic compound HCHO
• Japanese: ホルムアルデヒド (horumuarudehido) — the organic compound HCHO
• Korean: 폼알데하이드 (pomaldehaideu) — the organic compound HCHO
• Latvian: formaldehīds — the organic compound HCHO
• Lithuanian: formaldehidas — the organic compound HCHO
• Malay: formaldehid — the organic compound HCHO
• Malay: metanal — the organic compound HCHO
• Persian: فرمالدئید (formâlde'id) — the organic compound HCHO
• Persian: فرمالدهید (formâldehid) — the organic compound HCHO
• Polish: aldehyd mrówkowy — the organic compound HCHO
• Polish: formaldehyd — the organic compound HCHO
• Polish: metanal — the organic compound HCHO
• Portuguese: formaldeído — the organic compound HCHO
• Romanian: formaldehidă — the organic compound HCHO
• Russian: формальдеги́д (formalʹdɛgíd) — the organic compound HCHO
• Spanish: formaldehído — the organic compound HCHO
• Swedish: formaldehyd — the organic compound HCHO
• Thai: ฟอร์มาลดีไฮด์ — the organic compound HCHO
• Turkish: formaldehit — the organic compound HCHO
• Ukrainian: формальдегі́д (formalʹdehíd) — the organic compound HCHO
• Vietnamese: fomanđêhít — the organic compound HCHO