enzyme

See also: Enzyme and enzymé

English

From German Enzym, coined 1878 by the German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) +‎ ζύμη (zúmē, “sourdough”).

enzyme (countable and uncountable, plural enzymes)

(biochemistry) A globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction.
(Christianity) leavened bread, as opposed to azyme

catalytic protein

Afrikaans: ensiem
Arabic: انزيم‎ ?
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Basque: entzima
Bulgarian: ензим m (enzim)
Catalan: enzim (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 酶 (mui⁴), 酵素 (gaau³ sou³, haau¹ sou³) (dated)
Mandarin: 酶 (zh) (méi), 酵素 (zh) (jiàosù) (dated)
Min Nan: 酵素 (zh-min-nan) (kàⁿ-sò͘)
Czech: enzym (cs) m
Danish: enzym (da) n
Dutch: enzym (nl) n
Esperanto: enzimo
Finnish: entsyymi (fi)
French: enzyme (fr) m or f
Galician: enzima f
German: Enzym (de) n
Greek: ένζυμο (el) n (énzymo)
Gujarati: ઉત્સેચક ? (utsecak)
Hebrew: אנזים‎ (he) m
Hungarian: enzim (hu)
Icelandic: ensím (is) n
Indonesian: enzim (id)
Irish: einsím f
Italian: enzima (it) ?
Japanese: 酵素 (ja) (こうそ, kōso)
Kazakh: фермент (ferment)
Khmer: អង់ស៊ីម (ʼɑngsiim)
Korean: 효소(酵素) (ko) (hyoso)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: enzîm f
Latvian: enzīms m
Lithuanian: fermentas m, enzimas m
Malay: enzim (ms)
Maori: pūmua whākōkī, whākōkī
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: enzym (no) n
Nynorsk: enzym n
Persian: آنزیم‎ (fa) (ânzim)
Polish: enzym (pl) m
Portuguese: enzima (pt) f
Russian: ферме́нт (ru) m (fermént), энзи́м (ru) m (enzím)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ензим m
Roman: enzim m
Somali: ensiim (so)
Spanish: enzima (es) f
Swedish: enzym (sv) n
Thai: เอนไซม์ (th) (en-saai)
Turkish: enzim (tr)
Ukrainian: ферме́нт (uk) m (fermént)
Vietnamese: enzym (vi)

From Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) +‎ ζύμη (zúmē, “sourdough”).

enzyme m or f (plural enzymes)

enzyme

inflection of enzymer:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative