ibuprofen

See also: Ibuprofen and ibuprofén

English

Chemical structure of ibuprofen

Etymology

From i(so)bu(tyl) +‎ pro(pionic acid) +‎ phen(yl).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌʌɪ.bjuːˈpɹəʊ.fən/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˌaɪ.bjuˈpɹoʊ.fən/, /ˌaɪ.biˈpɹoʊfən/, /aɪˈbju.pɹəf.ən/

Noun

ibuprofen (countable and uncountable, plural ibuprofens)

(pharmacology) A synthetic compound used widely as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug.
Synonym: (brand name) Advil

Derived terms

ibu
ibu- (used mostly in brand names)
-profen (“anti-inflammatory agent”)

Translations

anti-inflammatory drug

Catalan: ibuprofèn m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 布洛芬 (zh) (bùluòfēn)
Czech: ibuprofen m
Dutch: ibuprofen (nl)
Finnish: ibuprofeeni (fi)
French: ibuprofène (fr)
German: Ibuprofen n
Greek: ιβουπροφαίνη f (ivouprofaíni)
Hebrew: איבופרופן‎
Hungarian: ibuprofén (hu)
Irish: iobúpróifein f
Italian: ibuprofene m
Japanese: イブプロフェン (ibupurofen)
Korean: 이부프로펜 (ibupeuropen)
Latin: acidus propionicus isobutylphenylus
Lithuanian: Iboprofenas
Malay: ibuprofen
Polish: ibuprofen (pl)
Portuguese: ibuprofeno m
Romanian: ibuprofen
Russian: ибупрофе́н (ru) m (ibuprofén)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ибупро̀фе̄н m
Roman: ibupròfēn (sh) m
Spanish: ibuprofeno m
Swedish: ibuprofen (sv)
Tamil: ஐப்யூபுரூஃபன் (aipyūpurūfaṉ)
Thai: ไอบูโปรเฟน (aiboobporfayn)
Vietnamese: ibuprofen
Welsh: ibuprofen m

Verb

ibuprofen (third-person singular simple present ibuprofens, present participle ibuprofening, simple past and past participle ibuprofened)

(rare) To treat with ibuprofen; to administer ibuprofen to.
- 2003 October 16, John Wilson, “Mt. Whitney in a day”, in Daily Pilot‎:
  By this time, Greg says, he was seeing triple and had a bad headache and Nate was seriously exhausted. Everyone was ibuprofened to the max. We reached the summit at 12:45 p.m., with Greg and Nate suffering the most.
- 2019 [2018], Xhenet Aliu, Brass: A Novel, New York, NY: Random House, →ISBN, page 33:
  He remains behind in the nurse's office to bring down his blood pressure after you've been ice-packed, ibuprofened, and shuffled along to the assistant principal, where you sit alone for twenty minutes, […]

References

“ibuprofen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“ibuprofen”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Czech

Noun

ibuprofen m

(pharmacology) ibuprofen