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From Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.
- (UK) IPA(key): /ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/, /ləˈbɔɹəˌtɔɹi/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈlæbɹəˌtɔɹi/, /ləˈbɔɹəˌtɔɹi/, /ləˈbɔɹətɹi/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ləˈbɔɹ.ə.tɹiː/, /ˈlɛb.ɹəˌtoːɹ.iː/
laboratory (plural laboratories)
- A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
- A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Laboratory”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 325:
Again she read the passage that had riveted her attention; and, rising from her seat, carried the still open volume, and laid it on a slab by the furnace in the laboratory: it was a celebrated treatise on poisons, written in the fifteenth century.
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
- lab (colloquial)
- laboratorium (archaic or nonstandard)
room, building or institution equipped for scientific research
- Afrikaans: laboratorium
- Albanian: laborator (sq) m
- Arabic: مَعْمَل m (maʕmal), مُخْتَبَر m (muḵtabar)
- Aragonese: laboratorio m
- Armenian: լաբորատորիա (hy) (laboratoria)
- Asturian: llaboratoriu m
- Azerbaijani: laboratoriya (az)
- Belarusian: лабарато́рыя f (labaratóryja)
- Bengali: পরীক্ষাগার (bn) (porikkhagar)
- Bulgarian: лаборато́рия f (laboratórija)
- Burmese: ဓာတ်ခွဲခန်း (my) (dhathkwai:hkan:)
- Catalan: laboratori (ca)
- Chinese:
- Corsican: laburatoriu m, laboratoriu m
- Crimean Tatar: laboratoriya
- Czech: laboratoř (cs) f
- Danish: laboratorium (da) n
- Dutch: laboratorium (nl) n, lab (nl) n, labo (nl) n
- Emilian: please add this translation if you can
- Esperanto: laboratorio (eo), esplorejo
- Estonian: laboratoorium
- Finnish: laboratorio (fi), labra (fi)
- French: laboratoire (fr) m
- Friulian: laboratori m
- Galician: laboratorio (gl) m
- Georgian: ლაბორატორია (laboraṭoria)
- German: Labor (de) n, Laboratorium (de) n, Laborgebäude n
- Greek: εργαστήριο (el) m (ergastírio)
- Hebrew: מַעֲבָּדָה (he) f (ma'abadá)
- Hindi: प्रयोगशाला f (prayogśālā)
- Hungarian: laboratórium (hu), (storeroom for science class) szertár (hu)
- Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can
- Icelandic: rannsóknarstofa, tilraunastofa
- Ido: laboratorio (io)
- Indonesian: laboratorium (id)
- Interlingua: laboratorio (ia)
- Irish: saotharlann f
- Italian: laboratorio (it) m
- Japanese: 実験室 (ja) (じっけんしつ, jikkenshitsu), ラボ (rabo)
- Kalmyk: лаборатор (laborator)
- Kazakh: зертхана (kk) (zertxana), лаборатория (laboratoriä)
- Khmer: ទីពិសោធ (tii pisaot)
- Korean: 실험실(實驗室) (ko) (silheomsil), 랩 (ko) (raep)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: ezmûngeh (ku), labaratûwar
- Kyrgyz: лаборатория (ky) (laboratoriya)
- Latin: labōrātōrium n
- Latvian: laboratorija f
- Ligurian: laboratöio m
- Lithuanian: laboratorija f
- Lombard: laboratori m
- Macedonian: лабораторија (mk) f (laboratorija)
- Malay: makmal (ms)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: лаборатори (mn) (laboratori)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: laboratorium (no) n
- Nynorsk: laboratorium n
- Pashto: لابراتوار m (lābrātwãr), آزمايشګاه m (āzmāyéšgāh)
- Persian: آزمایشگاه (fa) (âzmâyešgâh), لابراتوار (fa) (lâbrâtovâr)
- Piedmontese: laboratòri m
- Plautdietsch: Proowkoma f
- Polish: laboratorium (pl) n, pracownia (pl) f
- Portuguese: laboratório (pt) m
- Romagnol: laburatöri m
- Romanian: laborator (ro) m
- Russian: лаборато́рия (ru) f (laboratórija)
- Scottish Gaelic: deuchainn-lann m, obair-lann m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лабораториј m (Croatian), лабораторија f (Bosnian, Serbian)
- Roman: laboratorij m (Croatian), laboràtōrija (sh) f (Bosnian, Serbian)
- Slovak: laboratórium n
- Slovene: laboratorij (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: laboratorium m, labor m
- Sotho: serupa
- Spanish: laboratorio (es) m
- Swahili: maabara (sw)
- Swedish: laboratorium (sv) n, labb (sv) n
- Tagalog: panaliksikan, laboratoryo
- Tajik: лаборатория (laboratoriya)
- Tamil: ஆய்வுகூடம் (ta) (āyvukūṭam)
- Tatar: лаборатория (laboratoriyä)
- Telugu: ప్రయోగశాల (te) (prayōgaśāla)
- Thai: ห้องปฏิบัติการ (hɔ̂ng-bpà-dtì-bàt-gaan)
- Turkish: laboratuvar (tr)
- Turkmen: laboratoriýa
- Ukrainian: лаборато́рія (uk) f (laboratórija)
- Urdu: تجربہ گاہ (ur) m (tajurba-gāh)
- Uyghur: تەجرىبىخانا (tejribixana), لابوراتورىيە (laboratoriye)
- Uzbek: laboratoriya (uz)
- Vietnamese: phòng thí nghiệm (vi)
- Welsh: labordy (cy) m
- Yiddish: לאַבאָראַטאָריע f (laboratorye)
place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured
- Albanian: laborator (sq) m
- Arabic: مُخْتَبَر m (muḵtabar), مَعْمَل m (maʕmal)
- Armenian: լաբորատորիա (hy) (laboratoria)
- Azerbaijani: laboratoriya (az)
- Belarusian: лабарато́рыя f (labaratóryja)
- Bengali: পরীক্ষাগার (bn) (porikkhagar)
- Bulgarian: лаборато́рия f (laboratórija)
- Burmese: ဓာတ်ခွဲခန်း (my) (dhathkwai:hkan:)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 研究室 (yánjiūshì)
- Crimean Tatar: laboratoriya
- Czech: laboratoř (cs) f
- Danish: laboratorium (da) n
- Dutch: laboratorium (nl) n
- Estonian: laboratoorium
- Finnish: laboratorio (fi)
- French: laboratoire (fr) m
- Galician: laboratorio (gl) m
- Georgian: ლაბორატორია (laboraṭoria)
- German: Labor (de) n, Laboratorium (de) n, Laborgebäude n
- Greek: εργαστήριο (el) m (ergastírio)
- Hebrew: מַעְבָּדָה (he) f (ma'badá)
- Hindi: प्रयोगशाला f (prayogśālā)
- Hungarian: laboratórium (hu)
- Icelandic: rannsóknarstofu
- Ido: laboratorio (io)
- Irish: saotharlann f
- Italian: laboratorio (it) m
- Japanese: 研究所 (ja) m (けんきゅうじょ, kenkyūjo)
- Kalmyk: лаборатор (laborator)
- Kazakh: зертхана (kk) (zertxana), лаборатория (laboratoriä)
- Khmer: ទីពិសោធ (tii pisaot)
- Korean: 연구실(研究室) (ko) (yeon'gusil)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: ezmûngeh (ku), labaratûwar
- Kyrgyz: лаборатория (ky) (laboratoriya)
- Lao: ຫ້ອງທົດລອງ (hǭng thot lǭng)
- Latin: labōrātōrium n
- Latvian: laboratorija f
- Lithuanian: laboratorija f
- Macedonian: лабораторија (mk) f (laboratorija)
- Malay: makmal (ms)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: лаборатори (mn) (laboratori)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: laboratorium (no) n
- Nynorsk: laboratorium n
- Pashto: لابراتوار m (lābrātwãr), آزمايشګاه m (āzmāyéšgāh)
- Persian: آزمایشگاه (fa) (âzmâyešgâh), لابراتوار (fa) (lâbrâtovâr)
- Polish: laboratorium (pl) n
- Portuguese: laboratório (pt) m
- Romanian: laborator (ro) m
- Russian: лаборато́рия (ru) f (laboratórija)
- Scottish Gaelic: obair-lann m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лабораториј m (Croatian), лабораторија f (Bosnian, Serbian)
- Roman: laboratorij m (Croatian), laboràtōrija (sh) f (Bosnian, Serbian)
- Slovak: laboratórium n
- Slovene: laboratorij (sl) m
- Spanish: laboratorio (es) m
- Swedish: laboratorium (sv) n
- Tajik: лаборатория (laboratoriya)
- Tatar: лаборатория (laboratoriyä)
- Thai: ห้องทดลอง (hɔ̂ng-tót-lɔɔng)
- Turkish: laboratuvar (tr)
- Turkmen: laboratoriýa
- Ukrainian: лаборато́рія (uk) f (laboratórija)
- Urdu: تجربہ گاہ (ur) m (tajurba-gāh)
- Uyghur: تەجرىبىخانا (tejribixana), لابوراتورىيە (laboratoriye)
- Uzbek: laboratoriya (uz)
- Vietnamese: phòng thí nghiệm (vi)
- Yiddish: לאַבאָראַטאָריע f (laboratorye)
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