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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”), from Vulgar Latin *flātor (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin flātor (“blower”), from flō, flāre (“to blow, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Doublet of blow and bleat.
Pronunciation
Noun
flavor (countable and uncountable, plural flavors) (American spelling)
- The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.
- Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
Flavor was added to the pudding.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
What flavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?
- The characteristic quality of something.
the flavor of an experience
- (informal) A kind or type.
Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.
- (hip-hop slang) Style.
1993, “Bring The Flavor”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:Who brings the flavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings the flavor? / That's me. I got it
- (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
- (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
the flavor of a rose
1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round , volume II, London: C. Whiting, , →OCLC, page 4:It was damp, it was not free from dry rot, there was a flavour of rats in it, and it was the gloomy victim of that indescribable decay which settles on all the work of man’s hands whenever it’s not turned to man’s account.
Derived terms
Translations
the quality produced by the sensation of taste
- Afrikaans: smaak
- Albanian: shije (sq) f
- Arabic: نَكْهَة f (nakha), طَعْم (ar) m (ṭaʕm)
- Armenian: համ (hy) (ham)
- Bashkir: тәм (təm)
- Basque: zapore
- Belarusian: смак m (smak), пры́смак m (prýsmak), арама́т m (aramát)
- Bulgarian: вкус (bg) m (vkus)
- Burmese: ရသ (my) (ra.sa.)
- Catalan: gust (ca) m, sabor (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 味道 (zh) (wèidao), 味兒/味儿 (zh) (wèir)
- Czech: příchuť (cs) f
- Danish: smag c
- Dutch: meug (nl) m, smaak (nl) m
- Finnish: maku (fi)
- French: goût (fr) m, saveur (fr) f
- Galician: sabor (gl) m, aroma (gl) m
- Georgian: არომატი (aromaṭi), გემო (gemo)
- German: Geschmack (de) m
- Alemannic German: Gust m
- Hebrew: טַעַם (he) m (tá'am)
- Hindi: स्वाद (hi) m (svād), सुवास (hi) m (suvās)
- Hungarian: zamat (hu), aroma (hu)
- Ingrian: maku
- Italian: sapore (it), gusto (it)
- Japanese: 味 (ja) (あじ, aji), 風味 (ja) (ふうみ, fūmi), 香味 (ja) (こうみ, kōmi), フレーバー (furēbā)
- Kalmyk: амтн (amtn)
- Khmer: រសជាតិ (rŭəh ciət), រស (km) (rŭəh)
- Korean: 향미(香味) (hyangmi), 풍미(風味) (ko) (pungmi), 맛 (ko) (mat)
- Lao: ລົດຊາດ (lo) (lot sāt)
- Latin: sapor m
- Lithuanian: skonis m
- Macedonian: вкус m (vkus)
- Malay: rasa (ms)
- Maori: namunamuā, hā, tāwara, tāwhara
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: please add this translation if you can
- Nepali: स्वाद (svād), फ्लेबर (phlebar)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: smak m
- Nynorsk: smak m
- Occitan: gost (oc) m, sabor (oc)
- Persian: طعم (fa) (ta'm), مزه (fa) (maze)
- Polish: smak (pl) m, aromat (pl) m
- Portuguese: sabor (pt) m, gosto (pt)
- Romanian: savoare (ro) f, gust (ro) n, aromă (ro) f
- Russian: вкус (ru) m (vkus), арома́т (ru) m (aromát), при́вкус (ru) m (prívkus)
- Slovak: príchuť f
- Slovene: okus (sl) m, priokus m
- Spanish: sabor (es) m, gusto (es) m
- Swedish: smak (sv) c
- Tajik: мазза (tg) (mazza)
- Thai: รสชาติ (th) (rót-châat), รส (th) (rót)
- Tocharian B: śūke
- Turkish: çeşni (tr)
- Ukrainian: смак (uk) m (smak), при́смак (uk) m (prýsmak), арома́т (uk) m (aromát)
- Vietnamese: hương vị (vi)
- Welsh: blas (cy) m
- White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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a substance used to produce a taste
- Afrikaans: smaakstof
- Arabic: بَهَار (ar) m (bahār)
- Belarusian: прыпра́ва f (prypráva)
- Bulgarian: подпра́вка (bg) f (podprávka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 調料/调料 (zh) (tiáoliào), 調味料/调味料 (zh) (tiáowèiliào)
- Czech: příchuť (cs) f
- Dutch: smaakstof (nl)
- Finnish: makuaine, mauste (fi)
- French: saveur (fr) f
- German: Geschmacksstoff (de) m, Geschmacksverstärker (de) m
- Italian: sapori (it) pl, fragranza (it) f, aroma (it) m
- Japanese: 香料 (ja) (こうりょう, kōryō), 調味料 (ja) (ちょうみりょう, chōmiryō)
- Korean: 향료(香料) (hyangnyo), 조미료(調味料) (ko) (jomiryo)
- Latin: sapor m
- Maori: whaktakakara
- Portuguese: condimento (pt) m
- Russian: припра́ва (ru) f (pripráva), доба́вка (ru) f (dobávka)
- Swedish: smakämne (sv) n, smaktillsats c
- Ukrainian: припра́ва f (prypráva)
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the characteristic quality of something
in physics, the types of quarks or leptons
Translations to be checked
Verb
flavor (third-person singular simple present flavors, present participle flavoring, simple past and past participle flavored)
- (American spelling, transitive) To add flavoring to something.
Translations
to add flavoring to something
- Bulgarian: подправям (bg) (podpravjam), придавам вкус (pridavam vkus)
- Esperanto: gustigi
- Finnish: maustaa (fi), höystää (fi), antaa makua
- French: assaisonner (fr)
- Galician: condimentar (gl)
- German: würzen (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek: ἀρτύω (artúō)
- Hungarian: ízesít (hu), fűszerez (hu)
- Irish: leasaigh
- Italian: condire (it), aromatizzare (it), profumare (it)
- Maori: waitāwhara, whakarehu, whakakakara
- Portuguese: condimentar (pt)
- Russian: приправля́ть (ru) impf (pripravljátʹ), припра́вить (ru) pf (priprávitʹ)
- Spanish: saborizar (es), condimentar (es)
- Swedish: smaksätta (sv)
- Turkish: lezzetlendirmek (tr), tatlandırmak (tr)
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See also
Further reading
Middle English
Noun
flavor
- Alternative form of flavour