Etymology
From their general formula Cn(H2O)n; they were once thought to be hydrates of carbon.
Noun
carbohydrate (plural carbohydrates)
- (organic chemistry, nutrition) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant.
- Synonyms: (informal) carb, saccharide; see also Thesaurus:carbohydrate
These microbes are primarily responsible for breaking down cellulose and other carbohydrates into volatile fatty acids (VFAs).
2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
- (colloquial, by extension, metonymically) Any food rich in starch or other carbohydrates.
I'm cutting down on carbohydrates like bread and pasta.
Translations
organic compounds such as sugar, starch or cellulose
- Albanian: karbohidrat (sq) m
- Arabic: كَرْبُوهِيدْرَات pl (karbūhīdrāt)
- Armenian: ածխաջուր (hy) (acxaǰur)
- Azerbaijani: karbohidrat
- Belarusian: вугляво́д m (vuhljavód)
- Bulgarian: въглехидра́т (bg) m (vǎglehidrát)
- Burmese: ကစီဓာတ် (my) (ka.cidhat)
- Catalan: carbohidrat (ca) m, hidrat de carboni (ca) m, glúcid (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 碳水化合物 (taan3 seoi2 faa3 hap6 mat6), 醣類／糖类 (tong4 leoi6), 糖類／糖类 (tong4 leoi6)
- Mandarin: 碳水化合物 (zh) (tànshuǐhuàhéwù), 醣類／糖类 (zh) (tánglèi), 糖類／糖类 (zh) (tánglèi)
- Czech: sacharid (cs) m, uhlohydrát m
- Danish: kulhydrat n
- Dutch: koolhydraat (nl) n
- Esperanto: karbonhidrato
- Estonian: süsivesik
- Finnish: hiilihydraatti (fi)
- French: glucide (fr) m
- Galician: carbohidrato (gl) m
- Georgian: ნახშირწყალი (naxširc̣q̇ali)
- German: Kohlenhydrat (de) n
- Greek: υδατάνθρακας (el) m (ydatánthrakas)
- Hawaiian: kōpia
- Hindi: कार्बोहाइड्रेट m (kārbohāiḍreṭ)
- Hungarian: szénhidrát (hu)
- Icelandic: kolvetni (is) n
- Ido: karbohidrato (io)
- Indonesian: karbohidrat (id) n
- Irish: carbaihiodráit f
- Italian: carboidrato (it) m
- Japanese: 炭水化物 (ja) (たんすいかぶつ, tansuikabutsu), 含水炭素 (がんすいたんそ, gansuitanso) (obsolete)
- Kazakh: көмірсу (kömırsu)
- Khmer: កាបូអ៊ីដ្រាត (kaabouʼiidraat)
- Korean: 탄수화물(炭水化物) (ko) (tansuhwamul)
- Kyrgyz: көмүрсуу (kömürsuu)
- Latvian: ogļhidrāts (lv) m
- Lithuanian: angliavandenis m
- Macedonian: јаглехидра́т m (jaglehidrát)
- Malay: karbohidrat (ms)
- Maori: warowaihā
- Marathi: कर्बोदक n (karbodak)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: нүүрс ус (nüürs us)
- Mongolian: ᠨᠡᠭᠦᠷᠡᠰᠦ
ᠤᠰᠤ (negüresü usu)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: karbohydrat (no) n, kullhydrat (no) n
- Nynorsk: karbohydrat n
- Persian: کربوهیدرات (karbohidrât)
- Polish: węglowodan (pl) m, sacharyd (pl) m
- Portuguese: carboidrato (pt) m
- Romanian: carbohidrat (ro) m
- Russian: углево́д (ru) m (uglevód), карбогидра́т m (karbogidrát)
- Scottish Gaelic: gualaisg m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: угљени хидрат m, угљикохидрат m, карбохидрат m
- Roman: ugljeni hidrat m, ugljikohidrat m, karbohidrat m
- Slovak: sacharid m, uhľohydrát m
- Slovene: ogljikov hidrat m
- Spanish: carbohidrato m, hidrato de carbono
- Swahili: hamirojo, kabohaidreti
- Swedish: kolhydrat (sv) c
- Tajik: карбогидрат (karbogidrat), ангиштоб (angištob)
- Thai: คาร์โบไฮเดรต (th) (kaa-boo-hai-drèet)
- Turkish: karbonhidrat (tr)
- Turkmen: uglewod
- Ukrainian: вуглево́д m (vuhlevód)
- Uzbek: uglevod
- Vietnamese: hyđat-cacbon
- Welsh: carbohydrad m
- Zhuang: danqsuijvaqhozvuz
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