test tube

English

Alternative forms

• test-tube

Pronunciation

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Noun

two test tubes

test tube (plural test tubes)

1. (chemistry) A glass tube, rounded at one end and open at the other, used for small-scale laboratory tests.
   • 2026 October 5, Patrick Jackson, “US 'watching closely' after plague researcher dies in Russia, Rubio says”, in BBC News‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 October 2026, retrieved 5 October 2026:

     Unconfirmed reports had suggested the woman fell ill either after breaking a test tube containing the pathogen or following a field trip to a region where plague is found naturally among wild rodents.

Derived terms

• test tube baby

Translations

glass tube

• Albanian: provëz (sq) f, epruvetë f
• Arabic: أُنْبُوب اِخْتِبَار m (ʔunbūb iḵtibār)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: sınaq borusu, sınaq şüşəsi
• Bulgarian: епруве́тка (bg) f (epruvétka)
• Catalan: tub d'assaig m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試管 / 试管 (zh) (shìguǎn)

• Czech: zkumavka (cs) f
• Danish: reagensglas (da) n
• Dutch: reageerbuis (nl) f, proefbuis (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: koeputki (fi)
• French: tube à essai (fr), éprouvette (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: reagearbuiske c

• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Reagenzglas (de) n
• Greek: δοκιμαστικός σωλήνας (el) (dokimastikós solínas)
• Gujarati: કસનળી (kasnaḷī)
• Hebrew: מבחנה (he) f (mavhena)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kémcső (hu)
• Icelandic: tilraunaglas n
• Italian: provetta (it) f
• Japanese: 試験管 (ja) (しけんかん, shikenkan)
• Kazakh: сынауық (kk) (sınawıq)
• Khmer: បំពង់សាក (bâmpôngsak)
• Korean: 시험관(試驗管) (ko) (siheomgwan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: lûleya azmûnê f

• Latvian: mēģene f
• Lithuanian: mėgintuvėlis m
• Macedonian: епрувета f (epruveta)
• Malay: tabung uji
• Māori: ipuipu
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: टेस्ट ट्यूब (ṭesṭ ṭyūb)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prøverør n, reagensglass n, reagensrør n

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Plautdietsch: Proowglauss n
• Polish: próbówka (pl) f, probówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: proveta (pt) f, tubo de ensaio (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪਰੀਖਿਆ ਨਾਲ਼ੀ f (parīkhiā nāḷī)
• Romanian: eprubetă (ro) f
• Russian: проби́рка (ru) f (probírka)
• Serbo-Croatian: epruveta (sh) f
• Slovak: skúmavka (sk) f
• Slovene: epruvẹ̑ta (sl) f
• Spanish: tubo de ensayo (es) m
• Swedish: provrör (sv) n
• Tagalog: subukang tubo
• Thai: หลอดทดลอง (lɔ̀ɔt-tót-lɔɔng)
• Tibetan: ཚོད་ལྟ་ཤེལ་སྟོང (tshod lta shel stong)
• Turkish: deney tüpü
• Ukrainian: пробі́рка f (probírka)
• Vietnamese: ống nghiệm (vi)
• Welsh: tiwb prawf m