pyrrole

English

Etymology

From German Pyrrol, corresponding to Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “reddish, fiery”) +‎ -ole.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪɹəʊl/

Noun

pyrrole (plural pyrroles)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms and a nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C₄H₅N. [from 19th c.]
   • 1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:

     The way the red crystals absorbed light suggested that the molecule might contain a porphyrin-like structure, a flat ring made up of four smaller rings called pyrroles […].

Synonyms

• azole

Derived terms

• acylpyrrole
• arylpyrrole
• benzylpyrrole
• bipyrrole
• cryptopyrrole
• dipyrrole
• fluoropyrrole
• kryptopyrrole
• oligopyrrole
• phenylpyrrole
• polypyrrole
• pyrrolic
• pyrrolobenzodiazepine
• tetrapyrrole
• vinylpyrrole

 

Descendants

• → Polish: pirol

Translations

any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds

• Bashkir: пиррол (pirrol)
• Bulgarian: пирол m (pirol)
• Catalan: pirrole m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 吡咯 (bei² lok⁶)

  Mandarin: 吡咯 (zh) (bǐluò)

• Esperanto: pirolo
• Finnish: pyroli
• French: pyrrole (fr) f
• German: Pyrrol
• Italian: pirrolo m
• Japanese: ピロール (pirōru)
• Kazakh: пиррол (pirrol)
• Korean: 피롤 (pirol)
• Kyrgyz: пиррол (pirrol)
• Polish: pirol (pl) m
• Portuguese: pirrol m
• Spanish: pirrol m

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

pyrrole f (plural pyrroles)

1. pyrrole

Further reading

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