ampoule

See also: ampoulé

English

Ampoules containing pharmaceutical products

Alternative forms

• ampul, ampule

Etymology

Borrowed from French ampoule. Etymologically equivalent to amphora +‎ -ule/-le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.puːl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.pjuːl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

ampoule (plural ampoules)

1. A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection.

Translations

small glass vial hermetically sealed

• Albanian: ampulë (sq) f
• Amharic: አምፖል (ʾämpol)
• Arabic: أَمْبُولَة f (ʔambūla)
• Armenian: ամպուլա (hy) (ampula)
• Azerbaijani: ampula
• Belarusian: а́мпула f (ámpula)
• Bulgarian: а́мпула (bg) f (ámpula)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 安瓿 (on¹ pau²)

  Mandarin: 安瓿 (zh) (ānbù)

• Czech: ampulka (cs) f
• Danish: ampul (da) c
• Dutch: ampul (nl) f
• Esperanto: ampolo
• Estonian: ampull
• Finnish: ampulli (fi)
• French: ampoule (fr) f
• Georgian: ამპულა (amṗula)
• German: Ampulle (de) f
• Greek: αμπούλα (el) f (ampoúla)
• Hebrew: אַמְפּוּלָה (he) f (ampúla)
• Hungarian: ampulla (hu)
• Icelandic: ampúla f, púla f, lyfjabiða f, lykja f
• Indonesian: ampul (id)
• Italian: ampolla (it) f
• Japanese: アンプル (ja) (anpuru)
• Kazakh: ампула (ampula)
• Khmer: អំពូល (ʼɑmpuul)
• Korean: 앰풀 (aempul)
• Kyrgyz: ампула (ampula)
• Latvian: ampula f
• Lithuanian: ampulė f
• Macedonian: ампула f (ampula)
• Malay: ampul (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ампул (ampul)

  Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠫᠦᠯ (ampül)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ampulle m

  Nynorsk: ampulle m

• Persian: آمپول (fa) (âmpul)
• Polish: ampułka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ampola (pt) f
• Romanian: ampulă (ro) f
• Russian: а́мпула (ru) f (ámpula)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̏мпула f

  Roman: ȁmpula (sh) f

• Slovak: ampulka f
• Slovene: ampula f
• Spanish: ampolla (es) f
• Swedish: ampull (sv) c
• Tajik: ампула (ampula)
• Tigrinya: ኣምፑል (ʾampul)
• Turkish: ampul (tr), ilaç ampulü, enjeksiyon ampulü
• Turkmen: ampula (tk)
• Ukrainian: а́мпула (uk) f (ámpula)
• Uzbek: ampula (uz)
• Vietnamese: ống thuốc (vi), ămpun

French

Etymology

From Latin ampulla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pul/

• Audio:

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Noun

ampoule f (plural ampoules)

1. light bulb
2. ampoule
3. blister
4. (Cajun) pimple, zit

Descendants

• → English: ampoule
• → Moore: ãmpulli
• → Persian: آمپول (âmpul)
• → Turkish: ampul
  • → Laz: ამფული (ampuli)

Further reading

• “ampoule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.