urea

From New Latin, from French urée, from Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹiːə/, /ˈjʊəɹɪə/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈjurɪjɑ/, /jʊˈrɪjɑ/
• Rhymes: -iːə

urea (countable and uncountable, plural ureas)

1. (organic chemistry, biochemistry, uncountable) A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH₂)₂, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine.
   • 2026 March 9, Sam Sifton, “The War’s Effect on the Supermarket”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 March 2026:

     Five of them — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — supply more than a third of the world’s urea, an important nitrogen fertilizer, and nearly a quarter of another one, ammonia. […] Over the past week, the price of urea sold in Egypt, a market that economists track closely, climbed more than 35 percent.

2. (organic chemistry, countable) Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R₁R₂N)CO(NR₃R₄).

• carbamide

• biuret

• David Barthelmy (1997–2026), “Urea”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “urea”, in Mindat.org, Keswick, Va.: Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2026.

• Auer, eaur

Internationalism (see English urea), ultimately from New Latin urea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈureɑ/, [ˈure̞ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ureɑ
• Syllabification^(key): u‧re‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): urea

urea

1. urea

• virtsa-aine

• “urea”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

• Eura, auer

• IPA^(key): /uˈrɛ.a/
  • Rhymes: -ɛa
  • Hyphenation: u‧rè‧a
• IPA^(key): /ˈu.re.a/
  • Rhymes: -urea
  • Hyphenation: ù‧re‧a

urea f (plural uree)

1. urea

• poliurea
• ureico

• aure

From French urée, from Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).

urea (indeclinable)

1. (uncountable) urea, carbamide

• karbamid
• urinstoff

• “urea” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From French urée, from Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).

urea (indeclinable)

1. (uncountable) urea, carbamide

• karbamid
• urinstoff

• “urea” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /uˈɾea/ [uˈɾe.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: u‧re‧a

urea f (plural ureas)

1. urea (organic compound)

• “urea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from English urea.

urea class IX (plural urea class X)

1. urea

urea c

1. urea

   Synonyms: urinämne, karbamid

Called karbamid in skincare products.

• “urea”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “urea”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “urea”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH