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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin frāgrāns, present active participle of frāgrō (“I smell”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fragrant (comparative more fragrant, superlative most fragrant)
- Sweet-smelling; having a pleasant (usually strong) scent or fragrance.
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sweet-smelling
- Arabic: رَيًّا (rayyan), عَبِق (ʕabiq)
- Armenian: անուշաբույր (hy) (anušabuyr)
- Bikol Central: mahamot (bcl)
- Bulgarian: ароматен (bg) (aromaten), благоуханен (bg) (blagouhanen)
- Catalan: fragant
- Cebuano: humot
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 香 (hoeng1)
- Mandarin: 芬香 (zh) (fēnxiāng), 香 (zh) (xiāng), 芳香 (zh) (fāngxiāng)
- Czech: voňavý (cs) m
- Danish: duftende, vellugtende
- Esperanto: bonodora
- Finnish: hyväntuoksuinen, tuoksuva (fi)
- French: odorant (fr), aromatique (fr)
- Galician: fragrante (gl)
- Georgian: სურნელოვანი (surnelovani), კეთილსურნელოვანი (ḳetilsurnelovani), არომატული (aromaṭuli)
- German: duftend (de), wohlriechend (de)
- Gorontalo: wonu (gor)
- Greek: αρωματικός (el) (aromatikós), ευωδιαστός (el) (evodiastós)
- Ancient: εὔοσμος (eúosmos)
- Hawaiian: ʻala, ʻaʻala
- Higaonon: mahumut
- Hungarian: illatos (hu)
- Ilocano: nabanglo
- Indonesian: wangi (id), harum (id), semerbak (id)
- Irish: cumhra
- Japanese: 甘い香りのする (amai kaori no suru), 香り高い (かおりたかい, kaoritakai), 香ばしい (ja) (こうばしい, kōbashii), 芳しい (ja) (かんばしい, kanbashii)
- Javanese: wangi
- Kapampangan: mabanglu
- Kazakh: иісті (iıstı)
- Khmer: សុរភី (km) (so’ra’ pʰii), អប់ (km) (ɑp), ពិដោរ (km) (pi’dao), សុគន្ធ (km) (so’kʊən), សោគន្ធិកៈ (km) (saokoantʰi’ka’)
- Latin: suāveolens, hālāns
- Malay: wangi (ms), harum, semerbak
- Mongolian: анхилам (mn) (anxilam)
- Norwegian: duftende
- Bokmål: velluktende
- Nynorsk: velluktande
- Pashto: خوش بو (khūsh-bū)
- Plautdietsch: scheenrikjent
- Polish: pachnący (pl) m, wonny (pl) m
- Portuguese: cheiroso (pt) m
- Russian: арома́тный (ru) (aromátnyj), благоуха́ющий (ru) (blagouxájuščij), души́стый (ru) (dušístyj), благоуха́нный (ru) (blagouxánnyj), благово́нный (ru) (blagovónnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: cùbhraidh
- Spanish: fragante (es), perfumado (es)
- Sundanese: ᮓᮜᮤᮀᮓᮤᮀ (dalingding)
- Tagalog: mabango (tl)
- Thai: หอม (th) (hɔ̌ɔm)
- Turkish: ıtırlı (tr), rayihalı (tr)
- Ukrainian: ароматний (uk) m (aromatnyj), запашний (uk) m (zapašnyj), пахучий m (paxučyj)
- Vietnamese: thơm (vi)
- Welsh: persawr (cy), pêr (cy), peraroglus
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Latin
Verb
frāgrant
- third-person plural present active indicative of frāgrō
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French fragrant, from Latin fragrans.
Adjective
fragrant m or n (feminine singular fragrantă, masculine plural fragranți, feminine and neuter plural fragrante)
- fragrant
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