# absorbent
## English
### Etymology

From Latin absorbēns, present active participle of absorbeō (“absorb”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əbˈsɔː.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔː.bn̩t/
* (US) IPA: /æbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /æbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

absorbent (comparative more absorbent, superlative most absorbent)
* Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. [First attested in the early 18th century.]
    Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.

#### Derived terms

* absorbent cotton
* absorbent ground
* absorbently
* absorbent paper
* hydroabsorbent
* immunoabsorbent
* nonabsorbent
* non-absorbent
* photoabsorbent
* superabsorbent
* unabsorbent

#### Translations
### Noun

absorbent (plural absorbents)
* Anything which absorbs. [First attested in the early 18th century.]
** 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, page 225, Forgotten Books:In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year […] is low.
* (physiology, pluralized, now rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
* (medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
* (physical chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.

#### Descendants

* → Polish: absorbent
* → Norwegian Bokmål: absorbent

#### Translations

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### References

* 1 2 3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absorbent”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əp.surˈben]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əp.sorˈbent]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ap.soɾˈbent]

### Adjective

absorbent m or f (masculine and feminine plural absorbents)
* absorbent

### Noun

absorbent m (plural absorbents)
* absorbent

#### Related terms

* absorbir

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ap.sɔʁ.bɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

absorbent
* third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of absorber

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /abˈsor.bent/, [äpˈs̠ɔrbɛn̪t̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /abˈsor.bent/, [äbˈsɔrben̪t̪]

### Verb

absorbent
* third-person plural present active indicative of absorbeō

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English absorbent, from Latin absorbēns (“swallowing, absorbing”), present active participle of absorbeō (“absorb”), from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”), + and from sorbeō (“I suck in, drink up”), from Proto-Italic *sorβeō (“to suck in”), from Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti (“to be sipping, sucking”), from *srebʰ- (“to sip, gulp, suck (in)”) and *-éyeti, from *-yeti (creates transitive imperfective verbs).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /absɔrˈbɛnt/, /apsɔrˈbɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnt
* Hyphenation: ab‧sor‧bent

### Noun

absorbent m (definite singular absorbenten, indefinite plural absorbenter, definite plural absorbentene)
* an absorbent or absorber (something which absorbs)
** 1971, Teknisk Ukeblad:absorbenter eller reflektorer på vegger eller i takabsorbents or reflectors on walls or ceilings

#### Synonyms

* absorbator (“absorber, absorbent”)

### References

* “absorbent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “absorbent” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “absorbent” in Store norske leksikon

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English absorbent, from Latin absorbēns. First attested in 1925.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /apˈsɔr.bɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrbɛnt
* Syllabification: ab‧sor‧bent

### Noun

absorbent m inan
* (chemistry) absorbent, absorber (anything which absorbs)
    Synonyms: absorber, pochłaniacz

#### Related terms

* absorpcjometryczny
* absorpcyjny
* absorpcjometrycznie
* absorbancja
* absorbat
* absorbencjum
* absorber
* absorpcja
* absorpcjometr
* absorpcjometria
* absorpcyjność
* absorbować impf, zaabsorbować pf

#### See also

* adsorbent

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “absorbent”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “absorbent”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
* ↑ Przemysł Chemiczny : miesięcznik poświęcony sprawom polskiego przemysłu chemicznego, wydawany staraniem Instytutu Badań Naukowych i Technicznych "Metan" we Lwowie‎, number R. 9, nr 11/12, 1925, page 257

### Further reading

* absorbent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* absorbent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* absorbent in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego