quinine

From Spanish quina (“cinchona bark”), from Quechua kina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪniːn/, /kwɪˈniːn/, /ˈkwaɪnaɪn/

quinine (countable and uncountable, plural quinines)

1. (pharmacology) A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

• Jesuit's bark

quinine f (plural quinines)

1. quinine

• “quinine” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).

• “quinine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).