lactose

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• UK: /ˈlæk.təʊs/
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• UK: /ˈlæk.təʊz/
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Borrowed from French lactose, from Latin lac (“milk”) + -ose (derivation of glucose). Coined by French chemist Marcelin Berthelot.

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: laktoza — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Arabic: لَاكْتُوز (lāktūz) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Arabic: لاكتوز (lāktōz) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Armenian: կաթնաշաքար (katʻnašakʻar) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Armenian: լակտոզ (laktoz) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Basque: laktosa — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Belarusian: лакто́за (laktóza) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Bulgarian: лактоза (laktoza) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Catalan: lactosa — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Chinese Cantonese: 乳糖 (jyu5 tong4) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Chinese: 奶糖 (leng-thn̂g, ni-thn̂g, lin-thn̂g) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Chinese Mandarin: 乳糖 (rǔtáng) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Czech: laktóza — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Danish: laktose — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Danish: mælkesukker — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Dutch: lactose — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Dutch: melksuiker — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Esperanto: laktozo — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Esperanto: laktosukero — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Estonian: laktoos — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Estonian: piimasuhkur — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Faroese: mjólkarsukur — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Finnish: laktoosi — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Finnish: maitosokeri — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• French: lactose — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Galician: lactosa — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Georgian: ლაქტოზა (lakṭoza) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• German: Laktose — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• German: Lactose — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• German: Milchzucker — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Greek: λακτόζη (laktózi) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Hebrew: לקטוז (laktóz) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Hindi: दुग्धधु (dugdhadhu) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Hungarian: laktóz — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Hungarian: tejcukor — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Icelandic: laktósi — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Icelandic: mjólkursykur — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Ido: laktoso — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Indonesian: laktosa — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Irish: lachtós — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Italian: lattosio — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Japanese: 乳糖 (nyūtō) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Japanese: ラクトース (rakutōsu) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Khmer: ឡាក់តូស (laktouh) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Korean: 락토스 (raktoseu) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Korean: 유당 (yudang) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Korean: 젖당 (jeotdang) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Latin: lactosum — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Latvian: laktoze — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Lithuanian: laktozė — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Macedonian: лактоза (laktoza) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Malagasy: laktôzy — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Malay: laktosa — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Māori: huka waiū — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Māori: reihuka — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Marathi: दुग्धधु (dugdhadhu) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Mongolian: лактоз (laktoz) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Mongolian: суун чихэр (suun čixer) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Nepali: दुग्धधु (dugdhadhu) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Norwegian Bokmål: laktose — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Norwegian Bokmål: melkesukker — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Norwegian Nynorsk: laktose — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mjølkesukker — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Occitan: lactòsa — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Persian: لاکتوز (lâktoz) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Polish: laktoza — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Portuguese: lactose — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Romanian: lactoză — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Russian: лакто́за (laktóza) — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Serbo-Croatian: laktoza — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Serbo-Croatian: mliječni šećer — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Slovak: laktóza — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Slovene: laktoza — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Slovene: mlečni sladkor — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Spanish: lactosa — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Sundanese: laktosa — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Sundanese: gula susu — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Swahili: laktosi — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Swedish: laktos — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Swedish: mjölksocker — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Tagalog: laktosa — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Thai: แล็กโทส — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Turkish: laktoz — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Turkish: süt şekeri — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Uzbek: laktoza — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Vietnamese: đường sữa — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Vietnamese: lactoza — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products
• Welsh: lactos — disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products