adrenaline

See also: adrénaline and adrenalinę

English

The chemical structure of adrenaline.

Alternative forms

adrenalin

Etymology

From adrenal +‎ -ine, coined by Japanese chemist Takamine Jōkichi in 1901.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈdɹɛnəlɪn/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

adrenaline (usually uncountable, plural adrenalines)

(biochemistry) Epinephrine, the hormone and neurotransmitter.
Excitement; thrills.
Bungee jumping is a thing that people would do to feel alive through the surge of adrenaline.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Catalan: adrenalina
→ Dutch: adrenaline
→ French: adrénaline
→ Spanish: adrenalina
→ Swahili: adrenalini

Translations

the compound epinephrine

Afrikaans: adrenalien (af)
Albanian: adrenalina ?
Arabic: أَدْرِينَالِين (ar) m (ʔadrīnālīn)
Armenian: ադրենալին (hy) (adrenalin)
Belarusian: адрэналі́н m (adrenalín)
Catalan: adrenalina (ca) f, epinefrina f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 腎上腺素／肾上腺素 (san⁶ soeng⁶ sin³ sou³)

Mandarin: 腎上腺素／肾上腺素 (zh) (shènshàngxiànsù)
Czech: adrenalin (cs) m
Danish: adrenalin c or n
Dutch: adrenaline (nl) f
Esperanto: adrenalino (eo)
Finnish: adrenaliini (fi)
French: adrénaline (fr) f
Galician: adrenalina (gl) f
German: Adrenalin (de) n
Greek: αδρεναλίνη (el) f (adrenalíni)
Hebrew: אדרנלין (he) m (adrenalín), אפינפרין (he) m (epinefrín)
Hindi: एड्रेनालाईन ? (eḍrenālāīn)
Hungarian: adrenalin (hu)
Ido: adrenalino (io)
Indonesian: adrenalin (id)
Irish: aidréanailín m
Italian: adrenalina (it) f
Japanese: アドレナリン (ja) (adorenarin), エピネフリン (epinefurin)
Korean: 아드레날린 (adeurenallin)
Malay: adrenalina
Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: adrenalin (no) n

Nynorsk: adrenalin n
Polish: adrenalina (pl) f
Portuguese: adrenalina (pt) f
Romanian: adrenalină (ro) f
Russian: адренали́н (ru) m (adrenalín)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: адрена̀лӣн m

Roman: adrenàlīn (sh) m
Slovak: adrenalín (sk) m inan, epinefrín m inan
Slovene: adrenalin
Spanish: adrenalina (es) f
Swahili: adrenalini
Swedish: adrenalin (sv) n
Tagalog: adrenalina
Thai: ฮอร์โมนเนื้อในต่อมหมวกไต
Turkish: adrenalin (tr)
Ukrainian: адреналі́н (uk) m (adrenalín)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
Zulu: please add this translation if you can

excitement

Japanese: 脳汁 (ja) (nōjiru)
Polish: adrenalina (pl) f

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English adrenaline.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑ.dreː.naːˈli.nə/, /aː.dreː.naːˈli.nə/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: adre‧na‧li‧ne
Rhymes: -inə

Noun

adrenaline f (uncountable)

adrenaline [from 1902]
- 1902 June 28, "Adrenaline.", Algemeen Handelsblad, fol. 2, Vol. 75, No. 23391, page 6 (page 2 of fol. 2).

Italian

Noun

adrenaline f pl

plural of adrenalina

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