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Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms and a nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C4H5N.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh2wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Hellenic *-rós Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós) Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)der. German Pyrrolbor. English pyrrole From German Pyrrol, corresponding to Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “reddish, fiery”) + -ole.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bashkir:
пиррол
(pirrol)
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Bulgarian:
пирол
(pirol)
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Catalan:
pirrole
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Chinese Cantonese:
吡咯
(bei2 lok6)
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Chinese Mandarin:
吡咯
(bǐluò)
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Esperanto:
pirolo
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Finnish:
pyroli
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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French:
pyrrole
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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German:
Pyrrol
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Italian:
pirrolo
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Japanese:
ピロール
(pirōru)
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Kazakh:
пиррол
(pirrol)
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Korean:
피롤
(pirol)
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Kyrgyz:
пиррол
(pirrol)
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Polish:
pirol
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Portuguese:
pirrol
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds
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Spanish:
pirrol
— any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds