amino acid

See also: aminoacid and aminoàcid

English

See amine and acid. Likely a calque of German Aminosäure, which is attested earlier.

amino acid (plural amino acids)

(organic chemistry) Any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group.
(biochemistry) Any of the twenty naturally occurring α-amino acids (having the amino, and carboxylic acid groups on the same carbon atom), and a variety of side chains, that combine, via peptide bonds, to form proteins.

amino acids

any organic compound containing amino and carboxylic acid

Arabic: حمض أميني‎ m (ḥimḍ amīni)
Catalan: aminoàcid m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 氨基酸 (on¹ gei¹ syun¹)
Mandarin: 氨基酸 (zh) (ānjīsuān), 胺基酸 (zh) (ānjīsuān, ànjīsuān)
Min Nan: 胺基酸 (an-ki-sng)
Czech: aminokyselina (cs) f
Danish: aminosyre (da) c
Dutch: aminozuur (nl) n
Esperanto: amina acido
Faroese: aminosýra f
Finnish: aminohappo (fi)
French: acide aminé (fr) m
Galician: aminoácido (gl) m
German: Aminosäure (de) f
Greek: αμινοξύ (el) n (aminoxý)
Hungarian: aminosav (hu)
Icelandic: amínósýra f
Ido: amin-acido (io)
Indonesian: asam amino (id)
Irish: aimínaigéad (ga) m
Italian: amminoacido (it) m
Japanese: アミノ酸 (ja) (アミノさん, amino-san)
Javanese: asem amino
Khmer: អាស៊ីតអាមីនេ (asit aminé)
Korean: 아미노산 (ko) (aminosan)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: asîda amînî f
Latvian: aminoskābe (lv) f
Maori: waikawa amino
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aminosyre (no) m or f
Nynorsk: aminosyre f
Polish: aminokwas (pl) m
Portuguese: aminoácido (pt) m
Romanian: aminoacid (ro) m
Russian: аминокислота́ (ru) f (aminokislotá)
Serbo-Croatian: aminokiselìna f
Spanish: aminoácido (es) m
Swedish: aminosyra (sv) c
Turkish: aminoasit
Welsh: asid amino m

any of the twenty α-amino acids