incense

Etymology
From, from from , neuter past participle of. Compare. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and.

Pronunciation

 * Noun:
 * Verb:
 * Verb:
 * Verb:

Noun

 * 1) Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.
 * 2) The fragrant smoke released by burning incense (sense 1).
 * 3)  Homage; adulation.
 * 1)  Homage; adulation.
 * 1)  Homage; adulation.

Translations

 * Acehnese: keumeunyan
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: بخور
 * South Levantine Arabic: بخور
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: inciensu
 * Azerbaijani: buxur
 * Belarusian: ла́дан, фімія́м, кадзі́ла
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chakma:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 香
 * Mandarin:
 * Corsican: incensu, encensu
 * Czech:
 * Danish: røgelse, (dated)
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: སྤོས
 * Egyptian:
 * Emilian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: viiruk
 * Faroese: roykilsi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: incens
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: საკმეველი
 * German:, Räuchwerk (archaic)
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θυμίαμα
 * Hawaiian: heona
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: túis
 * Italian:, olibano
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh: ладан
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ທູບ, ກຳຍານ
 * Latin: thūs, suffīmen, thȳmiāma
 * Latvian:
 * Ligurian: incénso
 * Lithuanian: smilkalai
 * Lombard:
 * Macedonian: темјан, благомирис
 * Malay: dupa, kemenyan, setanggi
 * Maltese: inċens, bħur
 * Maori: whakakakara
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠩ
 * Norman: enchens
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, røkelse, røykelse
 * Nynorsk: virak, røykjelse
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: ѳѵмїамъ, темьꙗнъ, кадило
 * Old East Slavic: темьанъ, ладанъ, кадило
 * Old English: rēcels
 * Oromo: qayya
 * Pali: dhūpa
 * Persian: ,
 * Piedmontese: incens
 * Plautdietsch: Ruakstoff, Weiruak
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Rakhine:
 * Rohingya:
 * Romagnol: incéns, inzéns
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: timagna, timanza, timonza
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: та̀мјан
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kadidlo
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:, , sahumo
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: dupa
 * Tajik: бухур
 * Ternate: dupa
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: སྤོས
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ла́дан, фіміа́м,, ку́риво
 * Urdu: بخور
 * Uzbek: ladan
 * Vietnamese: (香),
 * Welsh: thus, arogldarth
 * Wolof: cuuraay
 * Yiddish: קטורת
 * Yucatec Maya: poom

Verb

 * 1)  To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
 * 2)  To anger or infuriate.
 * 3)  To incite, stimulate.
 * 4)  To offer incense to.
 * 5) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Second Nun's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 410-413:
 * "enm"
 * 1) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Second Nun's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 410-413:
 * "enm"

- And after this Almachius hastily Bad his ministres fecchen openly Cecile, so that she mighte in his presence Doon sacrifyce, and Iupiter encense.


 * 1)  To perfume with, or as with, incense.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:, de woede opwekken van
 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Russian:, , , , , , ,