absorbent

Etymology
From, present active participle of.

Adjective

 * 1) Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُمْتَصّ
 * Asturian: absorbente
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: sorba
 * Finnish: imukykyinen
 * French:
 * Galician: absorbente
 * German:
 * Interlingua: absorbente
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: absorbens
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: absorptiv, absorberende
 * Persian: درآشامنده, جذب‌کننده
 * Polish:, wchłanający, pochłanający, absorbujący,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: upijajući
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: nüsugik

Noun

 * 1) Anything which absorbs.
 * 2)  The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.
 * 1)  A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: поглъти́тел
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: absorbilo
 * Finnish: absorbentti
 * French:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, absorbator
 * Polish:, pochłaniacz
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: absorbentti
 * French:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:


 * Interlingua:

Etymology
From, from , present active participle of , from both , from , from , from , + and from , from , from , from and , from.

Noun

 * 1) an  or absorber

Etymology
, from. .

Noun

 * , absorber