diazepam

See also: diazepám

English

Chemical structure of diazepam

Etymology

From (benzo)diazep(ine) +‎ am(ide).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dʌɪˈaz.ɪ.pam/, /dʌɪˈeɪ.zɪ.pam/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /daɪˈæz.əˌpæm/

  • Audio (US):

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Noun

diazepam (countable and uncountable, plural diazepams)

1. (pharmacology) A tranquilizing muscle relaxant drug (trademark Valium) used chiefly to relieve anxiety.
   • 2001: The most effective anti-anxiety drugs (tranquillizers) are the benzodiazepines, epitomized by diazepam (Valium®). — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 57)

Derived terms

• -azepam

Translations

minor tranquillizer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地西泮 (zh) (dìxīpàn)

• Dutch: diazepam (nl)
• Finnish: diatsepaami (fi)
• French: diazépam (fr) m
• German: Diazepam n
• Greek: διαζεπάμη f (diazepámi)
• Hungarian: diazepám (hu)
• Japanese: ジアゼパム (jiazepamu)
• Kazakh: диазепам (diazepam)
• Persian: دیازپام
• Polish: diazepam (pl) m, relanium (pl) n
• Portuguese: diazepam m
• Russian: диазепа́м (ru) m (diazepám), сибазо́н m (sibazón), рела́ниум m (relánium), седуксе́н (ru) m (seduksén)
• Spanish: diazepam m
• Thai: ไดแอซิแพม
• Turkish: diazepam

References

• “diazepam”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “diazepam”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English diazepam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaˈzɛ.pam/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛpam
• Syllabification: dia‧ze‧pam

Noun

diazepam m inan

1. (pharmacology) diazepam

   Synonym: relanium

Declension

Declension of diazepam

	singular
nominative	diazepam
genitive	diazepamu
dative	diazepamowi
accusative	diazepam
instrumental	diazepamem
locative	diazepamie
vocative	diazepamie

Further reading

• diazepam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.a.zeˈpɐ̃/ [d͡ʒɪ.a.zeˈpɐ̃], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒja.zeˈpɐ̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /di.ɐ.zɨˈpɐ̃/, (faster pronunciation) /djɐ.zɨˈpɐ̃/

Noun

diazepam m (uncountable)

1. (pharmacology) diazepam (minor tranquillizer, benzodiazepine)

Spanish

Noun

diazepam m (plural diazepams)

1. diazepam