propane

English

Structural formula for propane.

Etymology

Analyzable as prop- +‎ -ane, borrowing or calque of German Propan.

Pronunciation

• enPR: prō'pān' IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊpeɪn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

propane (countable and uncountable, plural propanes)

1. (organic chemistry) An aliphatic hydrocarbon, C₃H₈, a constituent of natural gas. [from 1867]
   • 1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222:

     Propane gas is used for cooking and cylinder containers are placed to one side of the underframe, with battery boxes and electrical control boxes at the other side.

Synonyms

• E944 when used as a propellant

Hypernyms

• alkane

Derived terms

• biopropane
• bromochloropropane
• bromopropane
• chloropropane
• cyclopropane
• epoxypropane
• halopropane
• iodopropane
• isopropanide
• methylpropane
• nitropropane
• perfluoropropane
• phenylpropane
• procyclidine
• propanediol
• propanelike
• propanethial
• propanocaine
• propanoic
• propanol
• trimethylolpropane

 

Translations

aliphatic hydrocarbon: C₃H₈

• Afrikaans: propaan
• Arabic: بْرُوبَان m (brubān)
• Azerbaijani: propan
• Belarusian: прапа́н m (prapán)
• Bulgarian: пропа́н m (propán)
• Catalan: propà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 丙烷 (zh) (bǐngwán)

• Czech: propan (cs) m
• Dutch: propaan (nl) n
• Esperanto: propano
• Finnish: propaani (fi)
• French: propane (fr) m
• German: Propan (de) n
• Hungarian: propán (hu)
• Icelandic: própan n
• Indonesian: propana (id)
• Italian: propano (it) m
• Japanese: プロパン (ja) (puropan)
• Kazakh: пропан (propan)
• Khmer: ប្រូផេន (proupheen)
• Korean: 프로페인 (peuropein), 프로판 (peuropan)
• Navajo: níłchʼi łikoní
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: propan (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: propan m or n

• Plautdietsch: Propän f
• Polish: propan (pl) m
• Portuguese: propano (pt) m
• Romanian: propan (ro) n
• Russian: пропа́н (ru) m (propán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: про̀па̄н m

  Roman: pròpān (sh) m

• Slovak: propán m
• Spanish: propano m
• Swedish: propan (sv) n
• Tagalog: taltan
• Turkish: propan (tr)
• Ukrainian: пропа́н m (propán)

References

• “propane”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “propane”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• on paper

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

propane m (plural propanes)

1. propane

Further reading

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