organic compound

Etymology
Not only are organic compounds essential to living organisms, but the common belief until the 19th century was that only living organisms could produce them, whence the name. When it was shown in the early 1800s that they could also be produced in the laboratory, the old name was kept.

Noun

 * 1)  Any compound containing carbon atoms covalently bound to other atoms.

Usage notes
By convention they do not include the carbides, carbonates, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide; carbon disulfide is debatable.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 有機化合物
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: organická sloučenina
 * Danish: organisk forbindelse
 * Dutch: organische verbinding
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: composto orgánico
 * German: organische Verbindung
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: lífrænt efnasamband
 * Irish: comhdhúil orgánach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Malay: sebatian organik
 * Malayalam: കാർബണിക സംയുക്തം
 * Manx: co-vunstoo orgaanagh
 * Maori: matūwaro
 * Portuguese: composto orgânico
 * Romanian: compus organic
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: compuesto orgánico
 * Swedish: organisk förening
 * Tagalog: haying balangkap
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: cyfansoddyn organig