urea

urea

English

Etymology

New Latin, from French urée, from Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹiːə/, /ˈjʊəɹɪə/
• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

urea (countable and uncountable, plural ureas)

1. (organic chemistry, uncountable) A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH₂)₂, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine.
2. (chemistry, countable) Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R₁R₂N)CO(NR₃R₄).

Synonyms

• carbamide

Derived terms

• polyurea
• thiourea
• selenourea
• urea-formaldehyde resin

Translations

organic compound

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: карбамид (karbamid) Catalan: urea f Chinese: Cantonese: 尿素 (niu6 sou3) Mandarin: 尿素 (zh) (niàosù) Czech: urea (cs) f, močovina (cs) f, karbamid m Danish: urea c, urinstof (da) n Dutch: ureum (nl) n Esperanto: ureo Finnish: virtsa-aine (fi), urea (fi) French: urée (fr) f German: Harnstoff (de) m Greek: ουρία (el) f (ouría) Hebrew: שתנן‎ m (shitnán) Irish: úiré f Italian: urea (it) f Japanese: 尿素 (にょうそ, nyōso) Kazakh: несепнәр (nesepnär) Korean: 요소(尿素) (ko) (yoso) Maori: matū mimi Norwegian: Bokmål: urea, urinstoff n Nynorsk: urea, urinstoff n Polish: mocznik m Portuguese: ureia (pt) f Russian: мочеви́на (ru) f (močevína) Serbo-Croatian: mòkraćevina f, urea (sh) f, urèa (sh) f Slovene: sečnína f Spanish: urea (es) f Swedish: urea (sv) c, urinämne (sv) n Turkish: üre (tr)

derivative

Chinese: Cantonese: 脲 (niu6) Mandarin: 脲 (zh) (niào) Hungarian: karbamid (hu)

See also

• biuret

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Urea”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “urea”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

Anagrams

• Auer, eaur

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English urea), ultimately from New Latin urea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈureɑ/, [ˈure̞ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ureɑ
• Syllabification^(key): u‧re‧a

Noun

urea

1. urea

Declension

Inflection of urea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		urea	ureat
genitive		urean	ureoiden ureoitten
partitive		ureaa	ureoita
illative		ureaan	ureoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		urea	ureat
accusative	nom.	urea	ureat
	gen.	urean
genitive		urean	ureoiden ureoitten ureainrare
partitive		ureaa	ureoita
inessive		ureassa	ureoissa
elative		ureasta	ureoista
illative		ureaan	ureoihin
adessive		urealla	ureoilla
ablative		urealta	ureoilta
allative		urealle	ureoille
essive		ureana	ureoina
translative		ureaksi	ureoiksi
instructive		—	ureoin
abessive		ureatta	ureoitta
comitative		—	ureoineen

Possessive forms of urea (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	ureani	ureamme
2nd person	ureasi	ureanne
3rd person	ureansa

Synonyms

• virtsa-aine

Anagrams

• Eura, auer

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈrɛ.a/
  • Rhymes: -ɛa
  • Hyphenation: u‧rè‧a
• IPA^(key): /ˈu.re.a/
  • Rhymes: -urea
  • Hyphenation: ù‧re‧a

Noun

urea f (plural uree)

1. urea

Derived terms

• poliurea
• ureico

Anagrams

• aure

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French urée, from Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).

Noun

urea (indeclinable)

1. (uncountable) urea, carbamide

Synonyms

• karbamid
• urinstoff

References

• “urea” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French urée, from Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).

Noun

urea (indeclinable)

1. (uncountable) urea, carbamide

Synonyms

• karbamid
• urinstoff

References

• “urea” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈɾea/ [uˈɾe.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: u‧re‧a

Noun

urea f (plural ureas)

1. urea (organic compound)

Further reading

• “urea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014