smell

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
2. (countable, uncountable) The sense that detects odours.
3. (countable, uncountable) A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.

Verb

1. (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
2. (broadly, transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
3. (copulative, intransitive) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
4. (broadly, copulative, intransitive) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
5. (copulative, intransitive) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
6. (copulative, figuratively, intransitive) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
7. (obsolete) To give heed to.

Conceptes

olorar

👃

flairar

👃

ensumar

olor

👃

fer olor

olfacte

fer flaire

sentir

percebre

aroma

palpar

palpejar

flaire

👃

pudir

empestar

fragància

olfacció

ferumejar

fer olor a

fer pudor

empudegar

nas

👃

percepció olfativa

odorar

Sinònims

odor

scent

odour

sniff

stink

aroma

reek

fragrance

stench

perfume

sense of smell

olfaction

taste

feel

sense

nose

👃

give off an odour

inhale

whiff

smell bad

smelling

flavour

detect

breathe

bad smell

touch

hear

flavor

be fragrant

spirit

smell out

smack

foul

olfactory perception

finger

grope

acrid

kiss

😗

olfactory modality

exhalation

sniffing

snuff

smelliness

smell at

nose out

convey

look

malodorousness

milky

fetor

Traduccions

odeur

👃

sentir

👃

oler

👃

riechen

👃

Geruch

👃

olor

👃

odore

👃

ruiken

👃

cheirar

👃

flairer

👃

odorare

👃

olfatear

sentire

μυρίζω

puer

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/smɛl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: smellen

Heretat de anglès antic: *smyllan

Heretat de anglès mitjà: smel

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: smeele

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: smolen

Cognat amb neerlandès: smeulen

Cognat amb Middle Low German: smölen

Cognat amb baix alemany: smölen

Cognat amb baix alemany: smullen

Cognat amb flamenc occidental: smoel

Cognat amb danès: smul

Cognat amb lituà: smilkyti

Cognat amb lituà: smilkti

Cognat amb lituà: smalkinti

Cognat amb gaèlic irlandès mitjà: smál

Cognat amb rus: смола́

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *smel-
Proto-West Germanic *smalljan
Old English *smiellan
Middle English smellen
English smell
From Middle English smellen, smillen, smyllen, smullen, from Old English *smyllan, *smiellan (“to smell, emit fumes”), from Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (“to glow, burn, smoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *smel- (“to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”). The noun is from Middle English smel, smil, smul (“smell, odour”). Related to Saterland Frisian smeele (“to smoulder”), Middle Dutch smōlen (“to burn, smoulder”) (whence Dutch smeulen (“to smoulder”)), Middle Low German smölen (“to be hazy, be dusty”) (whence Low German smölen (“smoulder”)), Low German smullen (“emit smoke”), West Flemish smoel (“stuffy, muggy, hazy”), Danish smul (“dust, powder”), Lithuanian smilkyti (“to incense, fumigate”), Lithuanian smilkti (“to smudge, smolder, fume, reek”), Lithuanian smalkinti (“to fume”), Middle Irish smál, smól, smúal (“fire, gleed, embers, ashes”), Russian смола́ (smolá, “resin, tar”). Compare smoulder, smother.