smell

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

odeur

sentir

flairer

puer

odorat

parfum

renifler

embaumer

sentir mauvais

puanteur

arôme

senteur

humer

mauvaise odeur

fragrance

flair

fétide

âcre

sens

fétidité

fumet

exhaler un odeur

sentir bon

émettre une odeur

lait

esprit

olfaction

cocotter

empester

schlinguer

odor

répandre un arôme

briller

être parfumé

exhaler une odeur

fort

pourri

pet

poisson

etc.

de sang

bouffée

momentané

puant

ressentir

regard

saveur

ton

respirer le parfum de

arome

odeur agréable

odeur suave

pif

fouetter

écouter

pleurnicher

nez

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/smɛl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.