fragrant

English

Alternative forms

fragraunt (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frāgrāns, present active participle of frāgrō (“to smell”).

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹeɪ.ɡɹənt/
- Audio (US): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪɡɹənt
IPA^(key): (obsolete) /ˈfɹæ.ɡɹənt/^[1]

Adjective

fragrant (comparative more fragrant, superlative most fragrant)

Sweet-smelling; having a pleasant (usually strong) scent or fragrance.
fragrant flower

fragrant smell
Attractive (British, sometimes ironic or patronising)
- 1995, Christopher Hitchens, Letter to the London Review of Books, Vol. 17 No. 4, 23 February 1995:
  party-political interventions made by the fragrant Ms Stella Rimington.
- 2001, Kathryn Flett, Uneven Stephen, television review, The Guardian:
  the fragrant Ms Lawson should rename her show 'Nigella Swallows'

Synonyms

aromatic

Antonyms

fetid, noisome, pungent, smelly

Derived terms

Related terms

fragrance

Translations

sweet-smelling

Albanian: aromatik m, mermë (sq) m, erëmirë (sq) m
Amharic: መዓዛ ያለው (mäʿaza yaläw)
Arabic: رَيًّا (rayyan), عَبِق (ʕabiq)
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: անուշաբույր (hy) (anušabuyr)
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Bikol:
Central Bikol: mahamot (bcl)
Bulgarian: ароматен (bg) (aromaten), благоуханен (bg) (blagouhanen)
Catalan: fragant
Cebuano: humot
Chinese:
Cantonese: 香 (hoeng¹)

Mandarin: 芬香 (zh) (fēnxiāng), 香 (zh) (xiāng), 芳香 (zh) (fāngxiāng)
Czech: voňavý (cs) m
Danish: duftende, vellugtende
Esperanto: bonodora, ^{(please verify)} aroma (eo)
Finnish: hyväntuoksuinen, tuoksuva (fi)
French: odorant (fr), aromatique (fr)
Galician: fragrante (gl)
Georgian: სურნელოვანი (surnelovani), კეთილსურნელოვანი (ḳetilsurnelovani), არომატული (aromaṭuli)
German: duftend (de), wohlriechend (de)
Gorontalo: wonu (gor)
Greek: αρωματικός (el) (aromatikós), ευωδιαστός (el) (evodiastós)
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Ancient Greek: εὔοσμος (eúosmos)
Hawaiian: ʻala, ʻaʻala
Higaonon: mahumut
Hindi: सौंधा (saundhā)
Hungarian: illatos (hu)
Ilocano: nabanglo
Indonesian: wangi (id), harum (id), semerbak (id)
Irish: cumhra
Italian: fragrante (it)
Japanese: 甘い香りのする (amai kaori no suru), 香り高い (かおりたかい, kaoritakai), 香ばしい (ja) (こうばしい, kōbashii), 芳しい (ja) (かんばしい, kanbashii)
Javanese: wangi
Kapampangan: mabanglu
Kazakh: иісті (iıstı)
Khmer: សុរភី (km) (so’ra’ pʰii), អប់ (km) (ɑp), ពិដោរ (km) (pi’dao), សុគន្ធ (km) (so’kʊən), សោគន្ធិកៈ (km) (saokoantʰi’ka’)
Korean: 향기롭다 (ko) (hyanggiropda)
Latin: suāveolens, hālāns
Latvian: smaržīgs
Malay: wangi (ms), harum, semerbak
Marathi: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: анхилам (mn) (anxilam)
Norwegian: duftende
Bokmål: velluktende

Nynorsk: velluktande
Pashto: خوش بو (khūsh-bū)
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Plautdietsch: scheenrikjent
Polish: pachnący (pl) m, wonny (pl) m
Portuguese: cheiroso (pt) m
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: fragrant (ro)
Russian: арома́тный (ru) (aromátnyj), благоуха́ющий (ru) (blagouxájuščij), души́стый (ru) (dušístyj), благоуха́нный (ru) (blagouxánnyj), благово́нный (ru) (blagovónnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: cùbhraidh
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: fragante (es), perfumado (es), fragrante (es), bienoliente
Sundanese: ᮓᮜᮤᮀᮓᮤᮀ (dalingding)
Tagalog: mabango (tl)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: หอม (th) (hɔ̌ɔm)
Turkish: kokulu, ıtırlı (tr), rayihalı (tr), muattar (tr)
Ukrainian: ароматний (uk) m (aromatnyj), запашний (uk) m (zapašnyj), пахучий m (paxučyj)
Urdu: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: thơm (vi)
Welsh: persawrus (cy), peraroglus

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Pashto: ^{(please verify)} بوي (ps) (bū-e) (smell, odour, scent)

References

^ Walker, John (1791), “Fragrant”, in A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: G. G. J. and J. Robinſon […] and T. Cadell, →OCLC, page 250.

Latin

Verb

frāgrant

third-person plural present active indicative of frāgrō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fragrant, from Latin fragrans.

Adjective

fragrant m or n (feminine singular fragrantă, masculine plural fragranți, feminine/neuter plural fragrante)

fragrant

Declension

Declension of *fragrant*
		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	fragrant		fragrantă	fragranți	fragrante
nominative- accusative	definite	fragrantul		fragranta	fragranții	fragrantele
genitive- dative	indefinite	fragrant		fragrante	fragranți	fragrante
genitive- dative	definite	fragrantului		fragrantei	fragranților	fragrantelor

[1] Walker, John (1791), “Fragrant”, in A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: G. G. J. and J. Robinſon […] and T. Cadell, →OCLC, page 250.

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