camphor

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Etymology

From Old French camphore or Medieval Latin camphora, from Arabic كَافُور (kāfūr), in turn from an Austronesian word such as Malay kapur.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmfɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmfə/

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Noun

camphor (countable and uncountable, plural camphors)

1. (organic chemistry) A white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone, 1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, with a strong pungent odour, used in pharmacy.
   • 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Palace of Green Porcelain”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 115:

     Yet, oddly enough, I found a far unlikelier substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that by chance, I suppose, had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first that it was paraffin wax, and smashed the glass accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable. In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.

Derived terms

• bastard camphor tree
• Borneo camphor
• camphene
• camphine
• camphogen
• camphol
• campholic acid
• camphoraceous
• camphorate
• camphorated
• camphoric
• camphorimine
• camphorize
• camphorsulfonic acid
• camphorsulphonic
• camphorsultam
• camphor tree
• camphorweed
• camphorwood
• camphory
• camphoryl
• camphretic acid
• camphrous
• Malay camphor
• Ngai camphor
• norcamphor
• oxycamphor
• rose camphor
• salol-camphor
• Sumatran camphor
• turpentine camphor

Translations

white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone

Acehnese: kapur Arabic: كَافُور (kāfūr) Armenian: կամֆորա (hy) (kamfora), քափուր (hy) (kʻapʻur) Belarusian: ка́мфара f (kámfara) Bulgarian: ка́мфора (bg) f (kámfora) Burmese: ပရုတ် (my) (pa.rut) Catalan: càmfora f Chinese: Mandarin: 樟腦 / 樟脑 (zh) (zhāngnǎo) Cornish: kamfor m Czech: kafr m Danish: kamfer c Dhivehi: ކާފޫރު (kāfūru) Dutch: kamfer (nl) m Esperanto: kamforo (eo) Faroese: kamfur n Finnish: kamferi (fi) French: camphre (fr) m German: Kampfer (de) m, (scientific) Campher m Greek: καμφορά (el) f (kamforá) Gujarati: કપૂર (kapūr) Hausa: kafur Hebrew: קַמפוֹר Hindi: कपूर (hi) m (kapūr) Hungarian: kámfor (hu) Icelandic: kamfóra f Indonesian: kapur barus (id), kamper (id) Italian: canfora (it) f Japanese: 樟脳 (ja) (しょうのう, shōnō), カンフル (ja) (kanfuru) Kannada: ಕರ್ಪೂರ (kn) (karpūra) Kazakh: камфора (kamfora) Khmer: កប៌ូរ (km) (kaabou) Korean: 장뇌(樟腦) (jangnoe) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کافوور (kafûr) Northern Kurdish: kafûr (ku) Southern Kurdish: کافوور (kafûr) Lao: ກາລະບູນ (kā la būn) Latvian: kampars m Lithuanian: kamparas m Malagasy: ravintsara (mg) Malay: kapur barus Malayalam: പച്ചക്കർപ്പൂരം (paccakkaṟppūraṁ), കർപ്പൂരം (kaṟppūraṁ) Marathi: कापूर (kāpūr) Middle Persian: kʾp̄wl (kāpūr) Mongolian: Cyrillic: гавар (mn) (gavar), камфор (mn) (kamfor) (scientific) Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠪᠤᠷ (ɣabur), ᠻᠠᠮᠹᠣᠷ (kamfor) Nepali: कपुर (ne) (kapura) Norwegian: Bokmål: kamfer m or n Nynorsk: kamfer m or n Persian: کافور (fa) (kâfur) Polish: kamfora (pl) f Portuguese: cânfora f Punjabi: ਕਪੂਰ m (kapūr) Romanian: camfor (ro) n Russian: ка́мфора (ru) f (kámfora), камфара́ (ru) f (kamfará) Sanskrit: कर्पूर (sa) m or n (karpūra), कर्पूरम् m (karpūram) Shan: ပရုၵ်ႈ (pǎ rūk), ၽရူၵ်ႈ (phǎ rūuk) Sinhalese: කපුරු (kapuru) Slovak: gáfor (sk) m Slovene: kafra (sl) f Spanish: alcanfor (es) m Swahili: kafuri Swedish: kamfer (sv) c Tagalog: alkampor (tl) Tamil: கற்பூரம் (ta) (kaṟpūram) Telugu: కర్పూరము (te) (karpūramu) Thai: การบูร (th) (gaa-rá-buun) Turkish: kâfur (tr) Ukrainian: ка́мфора (uk) f (kámfora) Vietnamese: long não (vi) (龍腦) Welsh: camffor m

See also

• camphire