censer

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• sĕn′sər
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• UK: /ˈsɛn.sə/
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• US: /ˈsɛn.sɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɛnsə(ɹ)
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• homophone: censor
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• homophone: sensor
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• CMU ARPABET: S EH1 N S ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English censer, from Anglo-Norman censier, from Old French encensier, from encens (“incense”).

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aghwan: 𐔱𐕒𐕁𐕛𐔰𐕙 (bod'var) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Albanian: temjanicë — ornamental container for burning incense
• Arabic: مَبْخَرَة (mabḵara) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Arabic: مَبْخَرَة (mabḵara) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: בָזִיכָא (bāzīḵā) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Armenian: բուրվառ (burvaṙ) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Asturian: fumeru — ornamental container for burning incense
• Asturian: incensariu — ornamental container for burning incense
• Azerbaijani: buxurdan — ornamental container for burning incense
• Bulgarian: кади́лница (kadílnica) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Catalan: encenser — ornamental container for burning incense
• Catalan: peveter — ornamental container for burning incense
• Catalan: turíbul — ornamental container for burning incense
• Chinese Mandarin: 香爐 /香炉 (xiānglú) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Coptic: ϣⲟⲩⲣⲏ (šourē) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Czech: kadidelnice — ornamental container for burning incense
• Danish: røgelseskar — ornamental container for burning incense
• Dutch: wierookvat — ornamental container for burning incense
• Finnish: suitsutusastia — ornamental container for burning incense
• Finnish: kadilo — ornamental container for burning incense
• French: encensoir — ornamental container for burning incense
• Galician: incensario — ornamental container for burning incense
• Galician: botafumeiro — ornamental container for burning incense
• Galician: turíbulo — ornamental container for burning incense
• Georgian: საცეცხლური (sacecxluri) — ornamental container for burning incense
• German: Duftrauchbrenner — ornamental container for burning incense
• German: Weihrauchfass — ornamental container for burning incense
• German: Rauchfass — ornamental container for burning incense
• German: Thuribulum — ornamental container for burning incense
• German: Turibulum — ornamental container for burning incense
• Greek: θυμιατό (thymiató) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Ancient Greek: θῡμῐᾱτήρῐον (thūmĭātḗrĭon) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Ancient Greek: θυίσκη (thuískē) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Gujarati: ધૂપિયું (dhūpiyũ) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Indonesian: pedupaan — ornamental container for burning incense
• Indonesian: wiruk — ornamental container for burning incense
• Indonesian: turibulum — ornamental container for burning incense
• Irish: túiseán — ornamental container for burning incense
• Italian: turìbolo — ornamental container for burning incense
• Italian: incensière — ornamental container for burning incense
• Japanese: 香炉 (kōro) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Korean: 향로 (hyangno) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Latin: thūribulum — ornamental container for burning incense
• Macedonian: кади́лница (kadílnica) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Macedonian: ка́дило (kádilo) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Macedonian: ка́ндилка (kándilka) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Maltese: ċensier — ornamental container for burning incense
• Māori: oko tahu kakara — ornamental container for burning incense
• Mongolian: бойпор (bojpor) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Polish: kadzidło — ornamental container for burning incense
• Polish: trybularz — ornamental container for burning incense
• Polish: kadzielnica — ornamental container for burning incense
• Portuguese: turíbulo — ornamental container for burning incense
• Portuguese: incensário — ornamental container for burning incense
• Romanian: cădelniță — ornamental container for burning incense
• Russian: кади́ло (kadílo) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Russian: кури́льница (kurílʹnica) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Russian: кади́льница (kadílʹnica) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̀дионица — ornamental container for burning incense
• Serbo-Croatian: kàdionica — ornamental container for burning incense
• Slovene: kadílnica — ornamental container for burning incense
• Spanish: incensario — ornamental container for burning incense
• Spanish: botafumeiro — ornamental container for burning incense
• Spanish: turíbulo — ornamental container for burning incense
• Spanish: pebetero — ornamental container for burning incense
• Spanish: turífero — ornamental container for burning incense
• Swedish: rökelsekar — ornamental container for burning incense
• Tagalog: dupaan — ornamental container for burning incense
• Tagalog: insensaryo — ornamental container for burning incense
• Turkish: buhurdan — ornamental container for burning incense
• Ottoman Turkish: بخوردان (buhurdan) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Ukrainian: кади́ло (kadýlo) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Ukrainian: кади́льниця (kadýlʹnycja) — ornamental container for burning incense
• Vietnamese: lư hương — ornamental container for burning incense
• Yup'ik: katilaq — ornamental container for burning incense
• Finnish: suitsuttaja — person who censes
• German: Weihrauchschwenker — person who censes
• Polish: osoba kadząca — person who censes
• Turkish: buhurcu — person who censes
• Ottoman Turkish: بخورجی (buhurcu) — person who censes