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English
Etymology
From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.
Pronunciation
Noun
odor (countable and uncountable, plural odors) (American spelling)
- Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
- Synonyms: scent, perfume; see also Thesaurus:smell
1895 May 7, H G Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC:Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.
- (figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 287:In different parts of the coast different species of animals are accounted sacred, because they are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead. Hence monkeys near Fishtown, snakes at Whydah, and crocodiles near Dix Cove live in the odour of sanctity."
- (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem.
- Synonyms: esteem, repute
- (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
Usage notes
The term odo(u)r often has a negative connotation. Preferred terms for a pleasant odor are fragrance, scent, and aroma.
Derived terms
Translations
any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume
- Arabic: رَائِحَة (ar) f (rāʔiḥa), (plural) رَوَائِح f pl (rawāʔiḥ), رِيحَة f (rīḥa)
- Armenian: հոտ (hy) (hot)
- Azerbaijani: qoxu (az)
- Bashkir: еҫ (yeś)
- Basque: usain
- Belarusian: пах m (pax)
- Bengali: গন্ধ (bn) (gondho)
- Brunei Malay: bau
- Bulgarian: миризма (bg) f (mirizma)
- Cherokee: ᎦᏩᏒᎩ (gawasvgi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 氣味 / 气味 (hei3 mei6)
- Hokkien: 氣味 / 气味 (zh-min-nan) (khì-bī)
- Mandarin: 氣味 / 气味 (zh) (qìwèi)
- Czech: pach (cs) m
- Dutch: reuk (nl) f
- Egyptian: (sṯ)
- Esperanto: odoro (eo)
- Finnish: tuoksu (fi), haju (fi)
- French: odeur (fr) f
- Georgian: სუნი (suni), სურნელი (surneli)
- German: Geruch (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃 f (dauns)
- Greek: οσμή (el) f (osmí), μυρωδιά (el) f (myrodiá)
- Ancient: ὀσμή f (osmḗ)
- Hebrew: ריח (he) m (réakh)
- Hindi: गंध (hi) f (gandh)
- Hungarian: szag (hu)
- Icelandic: lykt (is) f
- Ingrian: haju, haiso, haisu
- Irish: tuth f
- Italian: odore (it) m
- Japanese: 匂い (ja) (におい, nioi)
- Kazakh: иіс (iıs)
- Korean: 냄새 (ko) (naemsae)
- Latin: odor m
- Macedonian: ми́рис (mk) m (míris), ми́ризба f (mírizba)
- Malay: bau (ms)
- Middle English: odour, flavour
- Mongolian: анхилга (mn) (anxilga), үнэр (mn) (üner)
- Neapolitan: addore m
- Pashto: بوى m (buy)
- Persian: بو (fa) (bu)
- Plautdietsch: Jeroch n
- Polish: zapach (pl) m
- Portuguese: odor (pt) m
- Romanian: mireasmă (ro) f, miros (ro) n
- Russian: за́пах (ru) m (zápax)
- Sanskrit: गन्ध (sa) m (gandha)
- Scottish Gaelic: boladh m, fàileadh
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ми̏рӣс m
- Roman: mȉrīs (sh) m
- Slovak: vôňa f
- Slovene: vonj (sl) f
- Spanish: olor (es) m
- Swedish: lukt (sv) c, odör (sv) c
- Thai: กลิ่น (th) (glìn)
- Tocharian B: were
- Turkish: koku (tr), rayiha (tr)
- Tày: ai
- Ukrainian: за́пах m (zápax)
- Vietnamese: mùi (vi), hơi (vi)
- Yiddish: גערוך (gerukh), ריח (reyekh)
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strong, pervasive quality
See also
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *omte.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
odor (plural odorok or odrok)
- (dialectal) hollow, cavity
- Synonym: üreg
- (dialectal) the place for fodder in the barn
- (geology) geode (a nodule of stone having a cavity)
- Synonym: üreges kőzet
- (printing) matrix (the cavity or mold in which anything is formed)
Declension
or
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- odor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oˈdor/
- Rhymes: -or
- Hyphenation: o‧dór
Noun
odor m (apocopated)
- Apocopic form of odore
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Via rhotacism from Old Latin odōs (plural: odōses), from Proto-Italic *odōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éd-os, from *h₃ed- (“to smell”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
odor m (genitive odōris); third declension
- A smell, perfume, stench.
- (figuratively) Inkling, suggestion.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “odor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “odor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- odor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- odor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- with incense and perfumes: ture et odoribus incensis
- the perfume exhaled by flowers: odores, qui efflantur e floribus
- there are whispers of the appointment of a dictator: non nullus odor est dictaturae (Att. 4. 18)
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 425-6
Lombard
Etymology
From Latin odōrem.
Noun
odor
- a smell
Middle English
Noun
odor
- Alternative form of odour
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese odor (displacing collateral form olor), from Latin odōrem.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
- Hyphenation: o‧dor
Noun
odor m (plural odores)
- odour; smell
- Synonyms: cheiro, aroma
Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French odeur, Latin odor.
Noun
odor f (plural odoruri)
- smell
- Synonym: miros
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian odor.
Noun
odor n (plural odoare)
- treasure
Declension
Venetan
Etymology
From Latin odor, odōrem. Compare Italian odore.
Noun
odor m (plural odori) or odor m (plural oduri)
- smell, stink