smell

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

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

Verb

1. To sense a smell or smells.
2. Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
3. To smell bad; to stink.
4. To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
5. To detect or perceive; often with out.
6. (obsolete) To give heed to.
7. To smell of; to have a smell of

Konzepte

riechen

Geruch

wittern

duften

stinken

Duft

schnüffeln

befühlen

empfinden

fühlen

Gestank

Aroma

Wohlgeruch

Geruchssinn

schnuppern

antasten

betasten

tappen

tasten

Gerüche

riechen an

Odor

Olfaktus

Nase

muffeln

müffeln

Stank

— Geruch

gestunken

hinriechen

Ahnung bekommen

Verdacht hegen

Wind bekommen

ahnen

merken

scharfer Geruch

stechender Geruch

beschnuppern

beschnüffeln

übel riechen

atmen

einatmen

bemerken

spüren

Riechen

Dunst

-

Geruch ''m'' -s

stinken ''stank

gestunken''

Bukett

Geruchsorgan

Riechorgan

Geruchsinn

Riechsinn

Geruchswahrnehmung

hören

zuhören

abschnüffeln

sniefen

schniefen

schnofeln

Nässe

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/smɛl/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld-
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.