scent

Etymology
From c.1400, from and, from , from  "to feel, perceive, ", from , present active infinitive of. Ultimately from, and thus related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of, , etc., or by influence of.

Noun

 * 1) A distinctive smell.
 * 2) A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
 * 3) The sense of smell.
 * 4)  A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
 * 5)  Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
 * 6)  Sense, perception.
 * 1) A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
 * 2) The sense of smell.
 * 3)  A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
 * 4)  Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
 * 5)  Sense, perception.
 * 1) The sense of smell.
 * 2)  A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
 * 3)  Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
 * 4)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
 * 2)  Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
 * 3)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
 * 2)  Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
 * 3)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
 * 2)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
 * 2)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
 * 2)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
 * 2)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Sense, perception.
 * 1)  Sense, perception.

Usage notes

 * Although historically the term was applied indifferently to odours of any kind, it is now more often used to refer to pleasant ones (like and ), while  and  are more often used for unpleasant ones.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: reuk
 * Arabic:, رَوَائِح
 * Hijazi Arabic: ريحة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bashkir: еҫ
 * Belarusian: за́пах, пах
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: esència,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, cheirume,
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ὀσμή
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: boladh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ;  ;
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: odor
 * Malay:
 * Maori: kakara, tīare
 * Maranao: bao
 * Norwegian:
 * Oromo: foolii
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Jeroch
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мирис
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: vôňa
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: were
 * Tok Pisin: smel
 * Ukrainian: за́пах
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: ,


 * Afrikaans: reuk
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, hajujälki ;
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans: reuksintuig
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans: parfuum, reukwater
 * Arabic: أَرِيج
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans: spoor
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ; ,
 * German:
 * Japanese: 手がかり
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Arabic:
 * French:
 * German: (1,2,3),  (1),  (2)
 * Italian: (1,2),  (3)
 * Korean:
 * Pashto:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
 * 2)  To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).
 * 3)  To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).
 * 4)  To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
 * 5)  To have a smell;  to give an impression (of something).
 * 6) * 1647, and, , ActIII, Scene2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al., p.325,
 * I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor?
 * 1) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
 * 1)  To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).
 * 2)  To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
 * 3)  To have a smell;  to give an impression (of something).
 * 4) * 1647, and, , ActIII, Scene2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al., p.325,
 * I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor?
 * 1) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
 * 1)  To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
 * 2)  To have a smell;  to give an impression (of something).
 * 3) * 1647, and, , ActIII, Scene2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al., p.325,
 * I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor?
 * 1) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
 * 1)  To have a smell;  to give an impression (of something).
 * 2) * 1647, and, , ActIII, Scene2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al., p.325,
 * I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor?
 * 1) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
 * 1) * 1647, and, , ActIII, Scene2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al., p.325,
 * I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor?
 * 1) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
 * I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor?
 * 1) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
 * 1) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 嗅到,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vainuta
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 嗅ぎ付ける
 * Malay: هيدو
 * Polish: zwietrzyć, zwęszyć
 * Portuguese: sentir (o) cheiro (de)
 * Russian: ; ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Japanese: におわせる
 * Polish: wypełniać wonią
 * Portuguese:, odorizar
 * Russian:


 * French: