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Lactose

Lactose

See also: lactose

German

Noun

Lactose f

Alternative spelling of Laktose

lactose

lactose

See also: Lactose

English

Noun

lactose ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lactoses)

(biochemistry) The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, (a product of glucose and galactose) used as a food and in medicinal compounds.

Synonyms

lactobiose

Translations

disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products

Albanian: laktoza
Armenian: կաթնաշաքար (hy) ‎(katʿnašakʿar), լակտոզ ‎(laktoz)
Basque: laktosa
Belarusian: лактоза ‎(laktoza)
Bulgarian: лактоза ‎(laktoza)
Catalan: lactosa f
Chinese:

Cantonese: 乳糖 ‎(jyu⁵ tong⁴)

Mandarin: 乳糖 (zh) ‎(rǔtáng)

Min Nan: 奶糖 ‎(leng-thn̂g, ni-thn̂g, lin-thn̂g)
Czech: laktóza (cs) f
Danish: laktose (da), mælkesukker
Dutch: lactose (nl) f, melksuiker (nl) m
Esperanto: laktozo (eo), laktosukero
Estonian: laktoos, piimasuhkur
Faroese: mjólkarsukur n
French: lactose (fr) m
Galician: lactosa (gl) f
Georgian: ლაქტოზა ‎(lakṭoza)
German: Laktose f, (alternatively:) Lactose (de), Milchzucker (de) m
Greek: λακτόζη (el) f ‎(laktózi)
Hebrew: לקטוז (he) m ‎(laktóz)
Hindi: दुग्धधु ‎(dugdhadhu)
Hungarian: laktóz, tejcukor
Icelandic: laktósi
Ido: laktoso (io)
Indonesian: laktosa (id)
Irish: lachtós
Italian: lattosio (it) m

Japanese: 乳糖 ‎(にゅうとう, nyūtō), ラクトース ‎(rakutōsu)
Korean: 락토스 ‎(raktoseu), 유당 ‎(yudang), 젖당 ‎(jeotdang)
Latin: lactosum
Latvian: laktoze (lv)
Lithuanian: laktozė
Macedonian: лактоза ‎(laktoza)
Malagasy: laktôzy (mg)
Malay: laktosa
Maori: huka waiū
Marathi: दुग्धधु ‎(dugdhadhu)
Nepali: दुग्धधु ‎(dugdhadhu)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: laktose, melkesukker

Nynorsk: laktose, mjølkesukker
Occitan: lactòsa
Persian: لاکتوز (fa) ‎(lâktoz)
Polish: laktoza (pl) f
Portuguese: lactose (pt) f
Russian: лакто́за (ru) f ‎(laktóza)
Serbo-Croatian: laktoza, mliječni šećer
Slovak: laktóza (sk)
Slovene: laktoza, mlečni sladkor
Spanish: lactosa f
Sundanese: laktosa, gula susu
Swedish: laktos (sv), mjölksocker (sv)
Thai: แล็กโทส
Turkish: laktoz (tr), süt şekeri
Uzbek: laktoza
Vietnamese: đường sữa, lactoza
Welsh: lactos m

Anagrams

alecost, coletas, locates, scatole, talcose, to scale

Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: lac‧to‧se

Etymology

From Latin lac ‎(“milk”) +‎ -ose ‎(“sugar”) (derivation of sucrose).

Noun

lactose f ‎(uncountable)

lactose

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lak.toz/

Noun

lactose m ‎(usually uncountable, plural lactoses)

(biochemistry) lactose

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɔzi

Noun

lactose f (plural lactoses)

(biochemistry) lactose (disaccharide sugar of milk)

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