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Perfume

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English

Pronunciation

  • AHD : pûr'fyoo͞m", pər-fyoo͞m'
  • IPA : /ˈpɜː(r)fju:m/
  • SAMPA : /"p3:(r)fju:m/

Noun

  1. A pleasant smell.
  2. A substance created to provide a pleasant smell.

Synonyms

Translations

  • Arabic: عطر
  • Bulgarian: благоухание n (1), парфюм m (1,2)
  • Catalan: perfum m
  • Chinese: 香水
  • Dutch: parfum n
  • Esperanto: parfumo
  • Finnish: tuoksu (1); hajuvesi , parfyymi (2)
  • French: parfum m
  • German: Parfum n, Parfüm n, Duftstoff m
  • Icelandic: Ilmvatn
  • Italian: profumo m
  • Japanese: 香水
  • Korean: 향수 (hangsu)
  • Norwegian: parfyme c
  • Polish: perfumy pl
  • Portuguese: perfume m
  • Russian: благоухание , аромат (1), духи (2)
  • Spanish: perfume m
  • Turkish: parfüm

Verb

  1. To apply perfume to something.

Translations

  • Bulgarian: парфюмирам
  • Dutch: parfumeren
  • French: parfumer
  • German: parfümieren
  • Italian: profumare
  • Polish: perfumować
  • Portuguese: perfumar
  • Spanish: perfumar

Related words

  • perfumed
  • perfumery

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA : /perˈfume/
  • SAMPA : /per"fume/

Noun

  1. perfume



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