# odor
## English
### Alternative forms

* odour (British spelling)

### Etymology

From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.
* Swedish odör (“bad smell”)

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈəʊdə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈoʊdəɹ/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Homophone: oater (some dialects)
* Rhymes: -əʊdə(ɹ)

### Noun

odor (countable and uncountable, plural odors) (American spelling)
* Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
    Synonyms: scent, perfume; see also Thesaurus:smell
** 1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC:Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.
* (figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
** 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 287:In different parts of the coast different species of animals are accounted sacred, because they are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead. Hence monkeys near Fishtown, snakes at Whydah, and crocodiles near Dix Cove live in the odour of sanctity."
* (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem.
    Synonyms: esteem, repute
* (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
** 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Luke xxiiij:[1], folio cxvii, recto:On the morowe after the ſaboth / erly in the mornynge / they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odourſ whych they had prepared / and other wemen wyth them.

#### Usage notes

The term odo(u)r often has a negative connotation. Preferred terms for a pleasant odor are fragrance, scent, and aroma.

#### Derived terms

* body odor, body odour
* fish odor syndrome
* in bad odor, in bad odour
* in good odor, in good odour
* odor of sanctity, odour of sanctity
* odorous
* odorously
* odorousness

#### Translations

Arabic: رَائِحَة (ar) f (rāʔiḥa), (plural) رَوَائِح f pl (rawāʔiḥ), رِيحَة f (rīḥa)
Armenian: հոտ (hy) (hot)
Azerbaijani: qoxu (az)
Bashkir: еҫ (yeś)
Basque: usain
Belarusian: пах m (pax)
Bengali: গন্ধ (bn) (gondho)
Brunei Malay: bau
Bulgarian: миризма (bg) f (mirizma)
Cherokee: ᎦᏩᏒᎩ (gawasvgi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 氣味 / 气味 (hei$^3$ mei$^6$)
Hokkien: 氣味 / 气味 (zh-min-nan) (khì-bī)
Mandarin: 氣味 / 气味 (zh) (qìwèi)
Czech: pach (cs) m
Dutch: reuk (nl) f
Egyptian: (sṯ)
Esperanto: odoro (eo)
Finnish: tuoksu (fi), haju (fi)
French: odeur (fr) f
Georgian: სუნი (suni), სურნელი (surneli)
German: Geruch (de) m
Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃 f (dauns)
Greek: οσμή (el) f (osmí), μυρωδιά (el) f (myrodiá)
Ancient: ὀσμή f (osmḗ)
Hebrew: ריח (he) m (réakh)
Hindi: गंध (hi) f (gandh)
Hungarian: szag (hu)
Icelandic: lykt (is) f
Ingrian: haju, haiso, haisu
Irish: tuth f
Italian: odore (it) m
Japanese: 匂い (ja) (におい, nioi)
Kazakh: иіс (iıs)
Korean: 냄새 (ko) (naemsae)
Latin: odor m
Macedonian: ми́рис (mk) m (míris), ми́ризба f (mírizba)
Malay: bau (ms)
Middle English: odour, flavour
Mongolian: анхилга (mn) (anxilga), үнэр (mn) (üner)
Neapolitan: addore m
Pashto: بوى m (buy)
Persian: بو (fa) (bu)
Plautdietsch: Jeroch n
Polish: zapach (pl) m
Portuguese: odor (pt) m
Romanian: mireasmă (ro) f, miros (ro) n
Russian: за́пах (ru) m (zápax)
Sanskrit: गन्ध (sa) m (gandha)
Scottish Gaelic: boladh m, fàileadh
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ми̏рӣс m
Roman: mȉrīs (sh) m
Slovak: vôňa f
Slovene: vonj (sl) f
Spanish: olor (es) m
Swedish: lukt (sv) c, odör (sv) c
Thai: กลิ่น (th) (glìn)
Tocharian B: were
Turkish: koku (tr), rayiha (tr)
Tày: ai
Ukrainian: за́пах m (zápax)
Vietnamese: mùi (vi), hơi (vi)
Yiddish: גערוך (gerukh), ריח (reyekh) :

#### See also

* aroma

### Anagrams

* door, oord, ordo, rood, Rood

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *omte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈodor]
* Hyphenation: odor
* Rhymes: -or

### Noun

odor (plural odorok or odrok)
* (dialectal) hollow, cavity
    Synonym: üreg
* (dialectal) the place for fodder in the barn
* (geology) geode (a nodule of stone having a cavity)
    Synonym: üreges kőzet
* (printing) matrix (the cavity or mold in which anything is formed)

#### Declension

or

#### Derived terms

* odras
* odros
* odroz

#### Related terms

* odú

### References

* ↑ Entry #667 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

### Further reading

* odor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oˈdor/
* Rhymes: -or
* Hyphenation: o‧dór

### Noun

odor m (apocopated)
* Apocopic form of odore

### Anagrams

* d'oro, doro, dorò, ordo, rodo, rodo-, rodò

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* odōs

### Etymology

Via rhotacism from Old Latin odōs (plural: odōses), from Proto-Italic *odōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éd-os, from *h₃ed- (“to smell”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈo.dor/, [ˈɔd̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈo.dor/, [ˈɔːd̪or]

### Noun

odor m (genitive odōris); third declension
* A smell, perfume, stench.
* (figuratively) Inkling, suggestion.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* odōrō
* odōror

#### Descendants

* Asturian: golor
* Catalan: olor
* → Czech: odér
* → Esperanto: odoro
** → Ido: odoro
* Friulian: odôr, nulôr
* Italian: odore
* Occitan: odor, olor
* Old French: odor
** Anglo-Norman: odour
*** → Middle English: odour
**** English: odor, odour
** French: odeur
*** → Swedish: odör
* Portuguese: odor
* Romanian: >? urdoare, → odor, odoare
* Romansch: odur, udur, odour
* Sicilian: uduri
* Spanish: olor
* Venetan: odor, udor

### References

* “odor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “odor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "odor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* odor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. with incense and perfumes: ture et odoribus incensis the perfume exhaled by flowers: odores, qui efflantur e floribus there are whispers of the appointment of a dictator: non nullus odor est dictaturae (Att. 4. 18)
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 425-6

## Lombard
### Etymology

From Latin odōrem.

### Noun

odor
* a smell

## Middle English
### Noun

odor
* Alternative form of odour

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese odor (displacing collateral form olor), from Latin odōrem.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /oˈdoʁ/ [oˈdoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /oˈdoʁ/ [oˈdoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /oˈdoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /oˈdoʁ/ [oˈdoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /oˈdoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈdoɾ/ [ɔˈðoɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈdoɾ/ [ɔˈðoɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈdo.ɾi/ [ɔˈðo.ɾi]
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
* Hyphenation: o‧dor

### Noun

odor m (plural odores)
* odour; smell
    Synonyms: cheiro, aroma

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* odoare

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French odeur, Latin odor.

#### Noun

odor f (plural odoruri)
* smell
    Synonym: miros

##### Related terms

* odora

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian odor.

#### Noun

odor n (plural odoare)
* treasure

##### Declension
## Venetan
### Alternative forms

* udor

### Etymology

From Latin odor, odōrem. Compare Italian odore.

### Noun

odor m (plural odori) or odor m (plural oduri)
* smell, stink