ribosome

English

Etymology

From ribo- +‎ -some.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪbəˌsəʊm/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪbəˌsoʊm/
Audio (Canada): (file)

Noun

ribosome (plural ribosomes)

(biology, cytology) A small organelle found in all cells; involved in the production of proteins by translating messenger RNA. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

Translations

organelle

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: ribosoma m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 核糖體 / 核糖体 (hat⁶ tong⁴ tai²), 核糖核蛋白體 / 核糖核蛋白体 (hat⁶ tong⁴ hat⁶ daan^6-2 bak⁶ tai²) (dated), 核蛋白體 / 核蛋白体 (hat⁶ daan^6-2 bak⁶ tai²) (dated)

Mandarin: 核糖體 / 核糖体 (zh) (hétángtǐ), 核糖核蛋白體 / 核糖核蛋白体 (hétáng hédànbáitǐ) (dated), 核蛋白體 / 核蛋白体 (hédànbáitǐ) (dated)
Czech: ribozom (cs) m
Dutch: ribosoom (nl) n
Esperanto: ribosomo
Finnish: ribosomi (fi)
French: ribosome (fr) m
German: Ribosom (de) n
Greek: ριβόσωμα (el) n (rivósoma)
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hindi: राइबोसोम (rāibosom)
Hungarian: riboszóma (hu)
Icelandic: netkorn
Indonesian: ribosom (id)
Italian: ribosoma (it) m
Japanese: リボソーム (ja) (ribosōmu)
Khmer: រីបូសូម (riibousoum)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: ribosoma f
Maori: tuipūmua
Polish: rybosom (pl) m
Portuguese: ribossomo (pt), ribossoma (pt)
Romanian: ribozom (ro) m
Russian: рибосо́ма (ru) f (ribosóma)
Spanish: ribosoma (es) m
Swedish: ribosom (sv) c
Tagalog: ribolawas
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: ribozom (tr)
Ukrainian: рибосо́ма f (rybosóma)
Vietnamese: ribôxôm
Welsh: ribosom m

Further reading

ribosome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

bosomier, broomies

French

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

ribosome m (plural ribosomes)

ribosome

Further reading

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