neuron

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• General-American: /ˈn(j)ʊɹɑn/
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• General-American: /ˈn(j)uɹɑn/
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• General-American: /ˈn(j)ɝɑn/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnjʊəɹɒn/
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• Canada: /ˈnjəɹɑn/
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• rhymes with -ʊəɹɒn
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• rhymes with -uːɹɒn
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• rhymes with -ɜːɹɒn
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• CMU ARPABET: N UH1 R AA0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From New Latin, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”), doublet of nerve and sinew. By surface analysis, neuro- + -on.

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عَصْبُون (ʕaṣbūn) — a cell of the nervous system
• Arabic: خَلِيَّة عَصَبِيَّة (ḵaliyya ʕaṣabiyya) — a cell of the nervous system
• Armenian: նեյրոն (neyron) — a cell of the nervous system
• Azerbaijani: sinir hüceyrəsi — a cell of the nervous system
• Catalan: neurona — a cell of the nervous system
• Chinese Cantonese: 神經細胞 /神经细胞 (san4 ging1 sai3 baau1) — a cell of the nervous system
• Chinese: 神經細胞 /神经细胞 (sîn-keng sè-pau, sîn-keng sòe-pau) — a cell of the nervous system
• Chinese Mandarin: 神經細胞 /神经细胞 (shénjīng xìbāo) — a cell of the nervous system
• Chinese Mandarin: 神經元 /神经元 (shénjīngyuán) — a cell of the nervous system
• Czech: neuron — a cell of the nervous system
• Danish: nervecelle — a cell of the nervous system
• Danish: neuron — a cell of the nervous system
• Dutch: neuron — a cell of the nervous system
• Dutch: zenuwcel — a cell of the nervous system
• Esperanto: neŭrono — a cell of the nervous system
• Finnish: neuroni — a cell of the nervous system
• Finnish: hermosolu — a cell of the nervous system
• French: neurone — a cell of the nervous system
• French: cellule nerveuse — a cell of the nervous system
• Georgian: ნეირონი (neironi) — a cell of the nervous system
• German: Neuron — a cell of the nervous system
• German: Nervenzelle — a cell of the nervous system
• Greek: νευρώνας (nevrónas) — a cell of the nervous system
• Hindi: तंत्रिकोशिका (tantrikośikā) — a cell of the nervous system
• Hungarian: idegsejt — a cell of the nervous system
• Hungarian: neuron — a cell of the nervous system
• Icelandic: taugafruma — a cell of the nervous system
• Ido: neurono — a cell of the nervous system
• Indonesian: neuron — a cell of the nervous system
• Italian: neurocito — a cell of the nervous system
• Japanese: 神経細胞 (shinkei saibō) — a cell of the nervous system
• Kazakh: нейрон (neiron) — a cell of the nervous system
• Kazakh: жүйке жасушасы (jüike jasuşasy) — a cell of the nervous system
• Khmer: ណឺរ៉ូន (nəɨroun) — a cell of the nervous system
• Korean: 신경 세포 (sin'gyeong sepo) — a cell of the nervous system
• Latin: neuron — a cell of the nervous system
• Latin: neuronum — a cell of the nervous system
• Latin: neurocytus — a cell of the nervous system
• Malayalam: നാഡീകോശം (nāḍīkōśaṁ) — a cell of the nervous system
• Manx: neayr-chillag — a cell of the nervous system
• Māori: pūtau io — a cell of the nervous system
• Norwegian Bokmål: nevron — a cell of the nervous system
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nevron — a cell of the nervous system
• Polish: neuron — a cell of the nervous system
• Polish: komórka nerwowa — a cell of the nervous system
• Brazilian Portuguese: neurônio — a cell of the nervous system
• European Portuguese: neurónio — a cell of the nervous system
• Romanian: neuron — a cell of the nervous system
• Russian: нейро́н (nejrón) — a cell of the nervous system
• Russian: не́рвная кле́тка (nérvnaja klétka) — a cell of the nervous system
• Spanish: neurona — a cell of the nervous system
• Swahili: nyuroni — a cell of the nervous system
• Swedish: neuron — a cell of the nervous system
• Swedish: nervcell — a cell of the nervous system
• Turkish: nöron — a cell of the nervous system
• Turkish: sinir hücresi — a cell of the nervous system
• Vietnamese: tế bào thần kinh — a cell of the nervous system
• Vietnamese: nơ-ron — a cell of the nervous system