Benzin

See also: benzin and benzín

German

Etymology

Coined by German chemist Eilhard Mitscherlich in 1833 from Benzoe +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɛnˈt͡siːn/
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)

Noun

Benzin n (strong, genitive Benzins, plural Benzine)

petrol, gasoline
Synonym: (colloquial) Sprit
- 1978, Mascha Kaléko, “Frühling über Berlin”, in Das lyrische Stenogrammheft / Kleines Lesebuch für Große, Hamburg: Rowohlt, →ISBN, page 37:
  Großstadtqualm statt Maiendüfte.
  —Frühling über Groß-Berlin!—
  Süße, wohlbekannte Düfte…
  Stammen höchstens von Benzin.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of Benzin [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Benzin	die	Benzine
genitive	eines	des	Benzins	der	Benzine
dative	einem	dem	Benzin	den	Benzinen
accusative	ein	das	Benzin	die	Benzine

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ Iraqi Arabic: بنزين
→ Hijazi Arabic: بنزين
→ Catalan: benzina
→ Danish: benzin
→ Dutch: benzine
→ Esperanto: benzino
→ French: benzine f
- → Greek: βενζίνη f (venzíni)
- → Polish: benzyna f
- → Romanian: benzină f
- → Turkish: benzin
- → Ukrainian: бензи́н (benzýn)
→ Hungarian: benzin
→ Italian: benzina f
→ Portuguese: benzina f
→ Russian: бензин m (benzin)
- → Armenian: բենզին (benzin)
- → Azerbaijani: benzin
- → Bezhta: бензин (benzin)
- → Georgian: ბენზინი (benzini)
- → Kazakh: бензин (benzin)
- → Kyrgyz: бензин (benzin)
- → Hebrew: בנזין (benzín)
- → Mongolian: бензин (benzin)
- → Tajik: бензин (benzin)
- → Turkmen: benzin
- → Uzbek: benzin
- → Yakut: бензин (benzin)
- → Yiddish: בענזין (benzin)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: бѐнзӣн m

Latin script: bènzīn m
→ Spanish: bencina
→ Swedish: bensin
→ Tok Pisin: bensin

Further reading

“Benzin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Benzin” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
“Benzin” in Duden online
Benzin on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de