fragrant

English

Alternative forms

fragraunt (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frāgrāns, present active participle of frāgrō (“I smell”).

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹeɪ.ɡɹənt/
Audio (US) (file)

Adjective

fragrant (comparative more fragrant, superlative most fragrant)

Sweet-smelling; having a pleasant (usually strong) scent or fragrance.

Antonyms

fetid, noisome, pungent, smelly

Related terms

fragrance

Translations

sweet-smelling

Arabic: رَيًّا‎‎ (rayyan), عَبِق‎‎ (ʿabiq)
Armenian: անուշաբույր (hy) (anušabuyr)
Bulgarian: ароматен (bg) (aromaten), благоуханен (bg) (blagouhanen)
Catalan: fragant
Chinese:
Cantonese: 香 (hoeng¹)

Mandarin: 芬香 (zh) (fēnxiāng), 香 (zh) (xiāng), 芳香 (zh) (fāngxiāng)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: hyväntuoksuinen, tuoksuva
French: odorant (fr), aromatique (fr)
Galician: fragrante (gl)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: duftend (de), wohlriechend (de)
Greek: αρωματικός (el) (aromatikós), ευωδιαστός (el) (evodiastós)
Hungarian: illatos (hu)
Indonesian: 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 (こうばしい, kōbashii), 芳しい (かんばしい, kanbashii)

Khmer: សុរភី (km) (so’ra’ pʰii), អប់ (km) (ɑp), ពិដោរ (km) (pi’dao), សុគន្ធ (km) (so’kʊən), សោគន្ធិកៈ (km) (saokoantʰi’ka’)
Latin: hālāns
Malay: wangi, harum
Mongolian: анхилам (mn) (anhilam)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: velluktende

Nynorsk: velluktande
Pashto: خوش بو‎‎ (khūsh-bū)
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)
Spanish: fragante (es)
Sundanese: ᮓᮜᮤᮀᮓᮤᮀ (dalingding)
Thai: หอม (hɔ̌ɔm)
Turkish: ıtırlı (tr), rayihalı (tr)
Vietnamese: thơm (vi)
Welsh: persawr (cy), pêr (cy), peraroglus

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Translations to be checked

Pashto: ^{(please verify)} بوي‎‎ (ps) (bū-e) (smell, odour, scent)

Latin

Verb

frāgrant

third-person plural present active indicative of frāgrō

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