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Definition: Smell |
SmellNoun1. The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses". 2. Any property detected by the olfactory system. 3. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason". 4. The faculty of smell. 5. The act of perceiving the odor of something. Verb1. Inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense. 2. Emit an odor; "The soup smells good". 3. Smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "smell" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Literature | Smell (an acute sense). James Mitchell was deaf, dumb, and blind from birth, "but he distinguished persons by their smell, and by means of the same sense formed correct judgments as to character." (Nineteenth Century, April, 1894, p. 579.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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An odor is the object of perception of the sense of olfaction. Odors are also called smells. The term stench, stink or reek is used to describe an unpleasant odor. The term fragrance is used by the perfume industry to describe a pleasant odor.
Odor receptors on the antennae
of a Luna mothOdors correspond to the objective phenomenon of chemicals dissolved in air, although, as with other senses, psychological factors can play a part in perception.
Certain odors, such as perfumes and flowers, are much sought after and large prices are paid for the most elite ones. Other whole industries have developed products to remove unpleasant odors. See deodorent.
Odors that are mostly perceived as "pleasant":
Odors that are mostly perceived as "unpleasant":
- flowers, trees, fresh fruit
The perception of odours is also very much dependent upon circumstance. The odor of cooking processes may be agreeable while cooking, but not after the meal when one is full. It is also culturally dependent what smells great to you may be quite unpleasant for your neighbors.
- bad breath, foot odor, feces, vomit, rotting fruit
The study of odours is an growing field, but is a complex and difficult one. The human olfactory system can detect many thousands of scents based on only very minute airborn concentrations of a chemical. The sense of smell of many animals is even better. Some fragrant flowers give off odor plumes that move downwind, and are detectable by bees more than a kilometer away.
Pheromones are odors that are deliberately used for communication. A female moth may release a pheromone that can entice a male moth from several kilometers. Honeybee queens constantly are releasing pheromones that regulate the activity of the hive. Workers can release such odors to call other bees into an appropriate cavity when a swarm moves in, or to "sound" an alarm when the hive is threatened.
There are hopes that smelling machines could do everything from test perfumes to help detect cancer, but as yet artificial noses are still quite inadequate.
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Olfaction, the sense of smell, is the detection of chemicals dissolved in air (or, by animals that breathe water, in water). In vertebrates it is located in the nose. The importance and sensitivity of smell varies among different organisms: most mammals have a good sense of smell, whereas most birds don't. Among birds, it is important in the tubenoses. Among mammals it is well developed in the carnivores and ungulates, who must always be aware of each other, and in those, such as moless, who smell for their food. It is less well developed in the catarrhine primates, and nonexistent in cetaceans, who in compensation have a sensitive and well-developed sense of taste.Insects have the sense of smell on their antennae. In many species it is highly tuned to pheromones; a male silkworm moth, for example, can smell a single molecule of bombykol.
Many vertebrates have an auxiliary olfactory sense organ called Jacobson's organ or the vomeronasal organ, located in the vomer, between the nose and the mouth. Snakes use it to smell prey, sticking their tongue out and touching it to the organ. Some mammals make a face called flehmen to direct air to this organ, which detects pheromones. In humans it is subliminal.
Mammals generally have about 1000 genes for odor receptors. Each receptor cell in the nose expresses one of these genes. Each gene is expressed by thousands of cells, whose axons converge in the olfactory bulb. Humans have 347 functional odor receptor genes; the rest have nonsense mutations. This number was determined by analyzing the genome in the Human Genome Project; the number may vary among ethnic groups, and does vary among individuals. Some people can smell amyl acetate (which smells like bananas), for instance; others can't.
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The term smell may refer to one of the following articles:
See also Wiktionary:Smell
- Olfaction - The sense of smell, that is, the ability to perceive odors
- Odor - the object being perceived by the sense of olfaction
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Synonyms: SmellSynonyms: aroma (n), feel (n), feeling (n), flavor (n), flavour (n), look (n), odor (n), odour (n), olfaction (n), olfactory modality (n), olfactory perception (n), olfactory property (n), olfactory sensation (n), scent (n), sense of smell (n), smelling (n), spirit (n), tone (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discovery | Be near the truth, be warm, get warmer, burn; smoke, scent, sniff, catch a whiff of, smell a rat. |
Ornament | Verb: ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp. |
Unbelief Doubt | Doubt; be doubtful; (uncertain); doubt the truth of; be skeptical as to; Adjective: diffide; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions; have one's doubts. |
Vulgarity | Verb: be vulgar; Adjective: misbehave; talk shop, smell of the shop. |
Warfare | Serve; see service, be on service, be on active service; campaign; wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire; spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood; on the warpath. |
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Crosswords: Smell |
| English words defined with "smell": sense of smell, smell out, smell up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "smell": Allegiance, Attractant ♦ Bucklersbury ♦ counselor, orientation and mobility ♦ Dutch weed ♦ ear mite ♦ Fingers' Ends ♦ Ham, HEATHEN, heatings ♦ Inkhorn Terms, instructor of blind ♦ MENAGERIE, mercaptans ♦ Netherweed, Nose ♦ Odor, Odour of Sanctity, ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY THERAPIST FOR THE BLIND, orientation therapist for blind, orientor ♦ Peroration, Pole-cat, PSIDIUM GUJAVA ♦ Rosamond, rosin spirit, Rowland ♦ Sensation Disorders, Smell a Rat, Smells of the Lamp, stench capsule, stinkdamp, sulfur water, sulfurous water, sulphur water, sulphurous water, SULZER, sweetening treatment, sweeting treatment, sycophant ♦ therapist for blin, to smell. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "smell": thyme. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's the smell, if there is such a thing (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Even with a swollen nose, I can still smell a rat. (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner) Nice to smell you again, Mr. Kitz (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) May I say that you smell really special (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett) Man, I smell like Phys (Goonies; writing credit: Chris Columbus) | |
Lyrics | Her eyes her smile her skin her smell her hair, her walk her talk her way her (There She Goes; performing artist: Babyface) But you can’t see, but you…can smell (Where Are You Going; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd (Hungry Like the Wolf; performing artist: Duran Duran) You can touch it, smell it, taste it so sweet (Epic; performing artist: Faith No More) You'll smell like a native (In France; performing artist: Frank Zappa) | |
Clever | When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide. (references; author: unknown) If your feet smell and your nose runs, you've been made upside-down. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sweet Smell of Success (1957) You and Your Senses of Smell and Taste (1955) Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001) | |
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 | "Boy! Smell that air!". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | You don't have to be Vietnamese to smell a rat Come crown King Dick!--Jan. 20 / / Youth International Party. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | You don't have to be Vietnamese to smell a rat : come crown King Dick!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 12 things to do instead of smoking cigarettes : jump, swim, smell, play ... nothing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Smell the roses" by Jewel Collins Commentary: "A just a girl smelling a flower on the fourth of july." | "Flowers" by C.H. So Commentary: "Some lovely purple flowers. Unfortunately I can never smell them." |
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 | Gorilla; sniff; sniffing; smelling; detect; inhale; inspire; scent; scent; nose; smell; snift; snuff; snuffle. |
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(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal | The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source. |
Benjamin Franklin | Fish and visitors smell in three days. |
| Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. | |
Cervantes | I begin to smell a rat. |
Charles Kingsley | Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. |
Martin Luther | If I break wind in Wittenberg they smell it in Rome. |
Shirley | Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. |
William Shakespeare | The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril. |
| What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. | |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Never had the exquisite sight, smell, sensation of nature, tranquil, warm, and brilliant after a storm, been more attractive to her. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You smell of powder |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | An evil smell, faint and foul as the light, curled upwards sluggishly out of the canisters and from the stale crusted dung |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | I smell her. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And, after all, I found their natural smell was much more supportable than when they used perfumes, under which I immediately swooned away |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us; leaving nothing but a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that our eyes once watered |
Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | ' and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial |
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Health | You Notice an Odd, Stale Smell. (references) | |
The diaper urine may have an unusual smell. (references) | ||
The urine may smell unusual or look cloudy. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ALLEGIANCE, n. This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. G.J. |
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Marla Hanson | I mean, there are things that trigger a sound, a smell, a certain situation, a feeling of helplessness. |
Sarah Ferguson | Well, I personally wouldn't because I love the sort of, I would love to think that you could go and sit there quietly and listen to the birds and smell the flowers and just be at peace and remember all the people that lost their lives on that day. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | I can smell the ocean and feel the sea sickness. |
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| "Smell" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 69.71% of the time. "Smell" is used about 3,519 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 69.71% | 2,453 | 3,662 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 22.96% | 808 | 8,626 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.1% | 250 | 18,796 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.2% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,519 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "smell". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Betharabah | N/A | Biblical | House of sweet smell |
| Jarvah | N/A | Biblical | A sweet smell |
| Jericho | N/A | Biblical | His sweet smell |
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Expressions using "smell": a nasty smell ♦ a smell of burning ♦ bad smell ♦ emit smell ♦ Foul smell ♦ have a bad smell ♦ have a sense of smell ♦ have a smell at smth. ♦ have a sweet smell ♦ i smell a rat ♦ lack of sense or smell ♦ lose its smell ♦ make a smell ♦ nasty smell ♦ perceive the smell of ♦ pleasant smell ♦ pronounced smell ♦ sense of smell ♦ smell a flower ♦ smell a rat ♦ smell about ♦ smell bad ♦ smell burning ♦ smell like ♦ smell musty ♦ smell of ♦ smell of burning ♦ smell of burning food ♦ smell of the lamp ♦ smell of the shop ♦ smell out ♦ smell sweet ♦ smell the lamp ♦ smell up ♦ take time to smell the roses ♦ to smell ♦ To smell a rat ♦ To smell of the lamp ♦ To smell of the shop ♦ To smell out ♦ unpleasant smell. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "smell": smell-absorbing, smell-brain, smell-cards, smell-conscious, smell-detecting, Smell-feast, smell-free, Smell-less, smell-making, smell-messages, smell-o-vision, smell-receptive, smell-sense, smell-smock, smell-traps. | |
Ending with "smell": after-smell, blood-smell, body-smell, heady-smell, horse-smell, leather-smell, non-smell, tele-smell. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
smell | 643 | bathroom smell | 26 |
smell like teen spirit | 556 | smell strawberry | 26 |
smell like teen spirit lyrics | 230 | like smell spirit tab teen | 25 |
skunk smell | 114 | dog smell | 24 |
foot smell | 95 | smell and taste | 24 |
nirvana smell like teen spirit lyrics | 94 | loss smell taste | 24 |
smell like nirvana | 75 | smoke smell | 22 |
vagina smell | 62 | get rid of skunk smell | 22 |
urine smell | 62 | sweet smell of success | 21 |
sense of smell | 61 | like smell spirt teen | 21 |
nirvana smell like teen spirit | 60 | loss sense smell | 21 |
i lyrics pussy smell | 39 | bad smell | 20 |
pussy smell | 39 | mildew smell | 20 |
loss of smell | 35 | smell it | 19 |
vaginal smell | 34 | new car smell | 19 |
i pussy smell | 33 | ass smell | 18 |
smell pantie | 33 | cat and smell | 18 |
skunk smell dog | 31 | remove cat urine smell | 17 |
cat urine smell | 28 | musty smell | 16 |
gee hair smell terrific | 27 | like smell spirit team | 16 |
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| Language | Translations for "smell"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | ruik, reuk (odor, odour, scent), geur (odor, odour, scent). (various references) | |
Albanian | erë (blow, era, Flavor, flavour, odor, odour, scent, smack, time, whiff, wind). (various references) | |
Arabic | قص الأثر بحاسة الشم, حاسة الشم (nose, scent, sense of smell), تفوح منه رائحة عفنة (pong, reek), إكتشف بحاسة الشم, إشتم (badmouth, bitch up, curse, jump, malign, offend, revile, rocket, scent, swear, talk dirty, tick), رائحة كريهة (fetidness, fetor, pong, rankness, reek, stink), رائحة نتنة (pong, reek, stench), رائحة (odor, odour, scent, smelling), شم (acumen, feel, nose, scent, sniff, snort, snuff). (various references) | |
Aymara | muct'aña (to smell). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ssímihkaa (to smell). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | усещам мирис, смърдя (reek, stink), воня (fetidness, fetor, hum, pong, reek, stench, stink), обоняние (nose, scent), мириша (nose, sniff, stink), мирис (scent), миризма (emanation, flavoring, flavouring, odor, odour, scent, smack), аромат (aroma, fragrance, nose, odor, odour, perfume, relish, sapor, savor, savour, scent), помирисвам, подушвам (get wind of, nose, scent, smell out, snuff, wind), издавам мириз, издавам аромат, душа (breast, ghost, heart, inside, lifeblood, mastermind, nature, nose, nuzzle, psyche, quest, scent, scrag, smell about, smother, sniff, soul, spirit, stifle, throttle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 氣 (air, gas, to be enraged, to get angry, to make sb. angry, vital breath, weather), 气味 (Odor, odour, scent, Smell-less). (various references) | |
Czech | smrdìt (hum, smell bad, stink), smrad (niff, odor, odour, pong, reek, stench, stink), zvìtřit (wind), zápach (fetidness, hum, mephitic, odor, odour, reek, scent), vonìt (emit, smell sweet), vùnì (Flavor, flavour, fragrance, odor, odour, perfume, scent, wind), ucítit (feel, wind), tušit (conjecture, forebode, presage, sense, surmise, suspect), předvídat (anticipate, divine, foresee, think ahead), pach (malodor, scent), páchnout (emit, reek, stink), cítit (feel, sense, taste), aróma (aroma, fragrance, relish, scent), èich (nose, scent). (various references) | |
Danish | stinke (reek, smell bad, stink), lugte (give off an odour, reek), lugt (odor, odour, scent). (various references) | |
Dutch | vies ruiken (reek, smell bad, stink), stinken (reek, smell bad, stink). (various references) | |
Esperanto | odoro (odor, odour, scent), odori (give off an odour, reek), flarsento, flaro, flari, fetori (reek, smell bad, stink). (various references) | |
Faeroese | snodda eftir, tevja, rúka (give off an odour, reek), anga (give off an odour, reek). (various references) | |
Farsi | حاکی بودن از (Bespeak, Bode, Signify, Symbolize), عطر (Ambrosia, Odor, Perfume, Scent), استشمام , رایحه داشتن , رایحه (Aroma, Breath, Odor, Scent), شامه (Membrane), بویاءی , بوکردن (Respire), بوکشی , بودادن (Scorch, Singe), بوءیدن , بو (Aroma, Savor, Scent, Whiff). (various references) | |
Finnish | haistaa (scent). (various references) | |
French | sentir (smack, smack of smth.), odorat (sense of smell), flairer (sniff at smth.), odeur (smelling). (various references) | |
Frisian | stjonke (reek, smell bad, stink), lucht (air, odor, odour, scent). (various references) | |
German | riechen (give off an odour, have a sense of smell, reek, savor, savour, sniff, to smell), Geruch (aroma, fragrance, odor, odour, perfume, scent, smack, stench, stink, whiff), wittern (get wind of, scent, sense, sniff, wind), duften (give off an odour, have a sense of smell, reek, to smell). (various references) | |
Greek | μυρωδιά (odor, odour, scent, tincture), μυρίζω (smack of). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | erë (odor, odour, scent, wind). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לתת ריח (be fragrant), להדיף ריח (emit smell), להריח (scent, sense), להסריח (reek, stink), חוש הריח (scent, sense of smell), הריח, ריח (aroma, fragrance, odor, odour, savor, savour, scent), רחרוח (sniff), צחנה (fetidness, reek, stench), ניא. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szag (odor, odour, olfactory, perfume, say, scent, spoor, whiff). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mencium (buss, osculate, sense, smack), membaui, endus (find out, get wond of, whiff), cium (kiss), berbau (be odorous, give off an odor), bau (aroma, foul, odour, scent, unpleasant), aroma (aroma, odor, odour). (various references) | |
Irish | boladh. (various references) | |
Italian | sentire (feel, give, give off an odour, hear, reek, sense, taste), profumo (odor, odors, odour, perfume, scent, sweetness), odorato (nose, scent, sense of smell). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 薫り (aroma, fragrance, scent), 香り (aroma, fragrance, scent). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | におい (aroma, fragrance, odour, perfume, scent, stench), かおり (aroma, fragrance, scent). (various references) | |
Korean | 냄새 (Odor, odour, scent). (various references) | |
Manx | soarey (psora, smelling), soaral (odorous, pong, scent, scented, sense of smell, smelling, whiff), soaraghey (scent, smelling), soar (aroma, bouquet, breath, odour, pong, scent, sense of smell, sniff). (various references) | |
Maori | hongi-a (to smell). (various references) | |
Mohawk | -tehswàtha' (to smell). (various references) | |
Norwegian | lukte (give off an odour, reek). (various references) | |
Papiamen | ole (give off an odour, reek), oló (odor, odour, scent), hole (give off an odour, reek), holó (odor, odour, scent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ellsmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cheiro (odor, odour, perfume, scent), odor (aroma, bloom, flavor, flavour, fragrance, fragrancy, odor, odour, perfume, scent), cheirar (breathe, give off an odour, inhale, nose, reek, savor, savour, scent, wind). (various references) | |
Romanian | simţ al mirosului, presimţi (divine, feel, scent, sense), parfum (aroma, bouquet, Flavor, flavour, fragrance, odor, odour, perfume, redolence, scent, sweet), mirosi (nose, nose out, savor, savour, scent, smack, smoke, sniff), miros (fragrance, nose, odor, odour, scent, sniff), fler (flair, scent), adulmeca (feel, foreknow, foresee, get on the scent, guess, nose, pick up the scent, scent, sense, smell out, smoke, sniff, suspect, trace). (various references) | |
Romansch | savurar (to smell). (various references) | |
Romany | soongàv (to smell). (various references) | |
Russian | ощущать запах (scenting), обоняние (nose, smelling), нюхать (nose, nuzzle, sniff at, snuff), запах (aroma, odor, odour, scent), понюхать. (various references) | |
Scottish | snot, fàileadh (savour; sense of smell), fàile, boladh (stink). (various references) | |
Sepedi | nkga (to smell). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smrdeti (stink), smrad (mephitis, odor, odour, stench, stink), pomirisati, onjušiti (sniff, snuff, snuff it), mirisati (reek, savor, savour, smack, sniff), miris (aroma, bouquet, flavor, flavour, fragrance, fragrancy, odor, odour, perfume, redolence, scent), čulo mirisa, aroma (aroma, bouquet, flavor, flavour, fragrance, fragrancy). (various references) | |
Sicilian | ciarari (to smell). (various references) | |
Spanish | oler (give off an odour, nose, pry, reek, savor, savour, scent, smack, smell out, sniff, sniff out, whiff), olor (aroma, flavour, odor, odour, scent, taint), apestar (infest, pong, reek, smell bad, smell out, stink, stink out), oler mal (reek, smell bad, stink). (various references) | |
Sranan | smeri (aroma, flavour, give off an odour, odor, odour, reek, scent, stench). (various references) | |
Swazi | kú-nuka (to smell). (various references) | |
Swedish | osa (reek, smell bad, smoke, stink), dofta (dust, give off an odour, reek), os, lukta (sniff, whiff), lukt (fume, odor, odour, scent, whiff), doft (aroma, fragrance, fragrancy, incense, odor, odour, savor, savour, scent, waft, whiff). (various references) | |
Thai | กลิ่น (odor, odour, olfaction, scent), ดมกลิ่น. (various references) | |
Turkish | sezmek (antedate, anticipate, be sensible of, detect, discern, divine, feel, guess, have a scent for smth., intuit, perceive, rumble, scent, see, sense, sniff, taste blood), pis koku (niff, pong, reek, stench, stink), kokusunu almak (get an inkling of, have a scent for smth., nose out, perceive the smell of, savor, savour, scent, smell out, sniff, snuff, taste blood, wind), kokusunda olmak (savor of, savour of, smell like), koku almak (nose, nose around), koku alma duyusu, koku (aura, drag, exhalation, Flavor, flavour, fragrance, odor, odour, redolence, scent, whiff, wind), kokmak (addle, fester, go bad, reek, savor of, savour of, stink), koklamak (nose, nose around, sniff, snuff), koklama (olfactory, smelling, sniff, sniffing, snuffle), kötü kokmak (stink, whiff), ima (adumbration, allusion, finger post, glance at, hint, implicitness, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, mention, office, pointer, reference, suggestion, whiff, whisper), hissetmek (feel, perceive, sense, take, understand). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ysgamak, ys (aroma, odor). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чути носом, нюхати (nose, nuzzle, olfact, sniff, whiff), нюх (flair, nose, olfaction, scent, smelling), натяк (allusion, cue, hint, intimation, office, shadow, suggestion, suspicion, telltale, tip, whisper), запах (nose, odor, odour, scent, wind), пахнути (breathe). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự hít mùi mùi thối, mùi ôi, khứu giác sự ngửi. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwyntio, gwynt (breath, wind), clywed (feel, hear, taste), arogli (scent), arogleuo (give odor, scent), arogl (odor, perfume, scent). (various references) | |
Yucatec | ch'e'eh (ado, din, noise, odor, odour, scent), book (odor, odour, scent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 2. ir. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | heliodori, heliodorum, nidor, odor, odore, odorem, odoremque, odores, odoribus, odoris. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | flaour, sentir. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 12, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H oun maria labousa litran murou nardou pistikhV polutimou hleiyen touV podaV tou ihsou kai exemaxen taiV qrixin authV touV podaV autou h de oikia eplhrwqh ek thV osmhV tou murou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Maria ergo accepit libram unguenti nardi pistici pretiosi unxit pedes Iesu et extersit capillis suis pedes eius et domus impleta est ex odore unguenti |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Maria nam an pund deorewurðre sealfemid þam wyrt ge-mengð þe nardus hatað.and smerede þas hælendes fet. & dreigdemid hire locken. & þt hus wæs ge-fylled ofþare sealfe swetnysse. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Therfor Marie took a pound of oynement of trewe narde precious, and anoyntide the feet of Jhesu, and wipte hise feet with hir heeris; and the hous was fulfillid of the sauour of the oynement. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then toke Mary a pounde of oyntmet called Nardus perfecte and precious and anoynted Iesus fete and wipt his fete with her heer and the housse was filled of the savre of the oyntmet. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 12, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Maria mikuhag tunga sa kilo nga bilihong pahumot nga lunsayng nardo, ug iyang gihaplasan niini si Jesus diha sa mga tiil, ug iyang gipahiran kini sa iyang mga buhok; ug ang balay nalukop sa kaamyon sa pahumot. |
| Croatian | Tada Marija uzme libru prave dragocjene nardove pomasti, pomaže Isusu noge i otare ih svojom kosom. I sva se kuæa napuni mirisom pomasti. |
| Danish | Da tog Maria et Pund af ægte, såre kostbar Nardussalve og salvede Jesu Fødder og tørrede hans Fødder med sit Hår; og Huset blev fuldt af Salvens Duft. |
| Dutch | Maria dan, genomen hebbende een pond zalf van onvervalsten, zeer kostelijken nardus, heeft de voeten van Jezus gezalfd, en met haar haren Zijn voeten afgedroogd; en het huis werd vervuld van den reuk der zalf. |
| Finnish | Niin Maria otti naulan oikeata, kallisarvoista nardusvoidetta ja voiteli Jeesuksen jalat ja pyyhki ne hiuksillaan; ja huone tuli täyteen voiteen tuoksua. |
| French | Marie, ayant pris une livre d`un parfum de nard pur de grand prix, oignit les pieds de Jésus, et elle lui essuya les pieds avec ses cheveux; et la maison fut remplie de l`odeur du parfum. |
| German | Da nahm Maria ein Pfund Salbe von ungefälschter, köstlicher Narde und salbte die Füße Jesu und trocknete mit ihrem Haar seine Füße; das Haus aber ward voll vom Geruch der Salbe. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè sa a, Mari pran yon boutèy demi lit plen yon odè ki fèt ak yon fèy yo rele na. Odè sa a te vann byen chè. Li vide tout odè a sou pye Jezi. Apre sa, li siye yo ak cheve li. Tout kay la te plen sant odè a. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian Maria datang dengan kira-kira setengah liter minyak wangi narwastu yang mahal sekali. Ia menuang minyak itu ke kaki Yesus, lalu menyekanya dengan rambutnya. Seluruh rumah itu menjadi harum karena minyak wangi itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu diambil oleh Maryam sekati minyak narwastu jati yang mahal harganya, diurapinya kaki Yesus serta disapunya kaki-Nya itu dengan rambutnya. Maka semerbaklah bau minyak narwastu itu memenuhi rumah itu. |
| Maori | Na ka mau a Meri ki tetahi pauna hinu kakara, he tino nara, he mea utu nui, whakawahia ana e ia nga waewae o Ihu, me te muru ano i ona waewae ki ona makawe; ki noa te whare i te kakara o te hinu. |
| Norwegian | Maria tok da et pund ekte, såre kostelig nardus-salve og salvet Jesu føtter, og tørket hans føtter med sitt hår; og huset blev fylt av salvens duft. |
| Portuguese | Então Maria, tomando uma libra de bálsamo de nardo puro, de grande preço, ungiu os pés de Jesus, e os enxugou com os seus cabelos; e encheu-se a casa do cheiro do bálsamo. |
| Rumanian | Maria a luat un litru cu mir de nard curat, de mare prey, a uns picioarele lui Isus, wi I -a wters picioarele cu pqrul ei; wi s`a umplut casa de mirosul mirului. |
| Shuar | Tura Marikia kunkuinian ti kuitjai ritru ajapén sumak itiamiayi. Tura Jesusa nawen kuer ni intiashijiai japirmiayi. Jeasha nu kunkuinjai ti shiir kunkunmiayi. |
| Swahili | Basi, Maria alichukua chupa ya marashi ya nardo safi ya thamani kubwa, akampaka Yesu miguu na kuipangusa kwa nywele zake. Nyumba yote ikajaa harufu ya marashi. |
| Swedish | Då tog Maria ett skålpund smörjelse av dyrbar äkta nardus och smorde därmed Jesu fötter; sedan torkade hon hans fötter med sitt hår. Och huset uppfylldes med vällukt av smörjelsen. |
| Uma | Bula-ra ngkoni', tumai-i Maria ngkeni hantanga' lite lana honga. Lana toe rababehi ngkai rali' kaju to mohonga, masuli' lia oli-na. Natua lana toe hi witi' -na Yesus pai' naporihi hante wuluwoo' -na. Mohonga-damo hobo' hi rala tomi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "smell": smelled, smeller, smellers, smellier, smelliest, smelling, smells, smelly. (additional references) | |
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"Smell" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asmall, Emmelle, mell, Omell, scell, sdel, selil, Semel, Semlali, Semmel, shmueli, skel, skell, smal, smali, smalp, Smeal, smeel, smel, smeld, smial, smilk, Smyrl, Stell, suell. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "smell" (pronounced sme"l) |
| 3 | -m e" l | Mel, Mell. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mells. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-m-s" | |
-1 letter: ells, elms, mell, mels, sell. | |
-2 letters: ell, elm, els, ems, mel, sel. | |
-3 letters: el, em, es, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-m-s" | |
+1 letter: milles, smells, smelly. | |
+2 letters: illumes, m | |
