name
Meaning 1
A surname from Hindi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sarin
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɑːɹɪn/
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General-American: /ˈsɑːɹən/
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CMU ARPABET: S AA0 R IH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The nerve gas O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: government, medicine, military, politics, sciences, toxicology, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: GB
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: GB
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organophosphate nerve agent
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi सरीन (sarīn), a typical surname of the Khatri community.
Named after the initials of its creators, Gerhard Schrader (1903–1990), Ambros, Rüdiger and Van der Linde.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: سَارِين (sārīn) — nerve gas
- Armenian: զարին (zarin) — nerve gas
- Belarusian: зары́н (zarýn) — nerve gas
- Bengali: সারিন (śarin) — nerve gas
- Bulgarian: зари́н (zarín) — nerve gas
- Chinese Mandarin: 沙林 (shālín) — nerve gas
- Estonian: sariin — nerve gas
- Finnish: sariini — nerve gas
- French: sarin — nerve gas
- Georgian: ზარინი (zarini) — nerve gas
- German: Sarin — nerve gas
- Greek: σαρίν (sarín) — nerve gas
- Japanese: サリン (sarin) — nerve gas
- Korean: 사린 (sarin) — nerve gas
- Latin: sarinum — nerve gas
- Persian: سارین (sârin) — nerve gas
- Portuguese: sarin — nerve gas
- Russian: зари́н (zarín) — nerve gas
- Spanish: sarín — nerve gas
- Swedish: sarin — nerve gas
- Turkish: sarin — nerve gas
- Ukrainian: зари́н (zarýn) — nerve gas