Phrase guide

five senses

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The five major senses in most animals: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: plural, plural-only

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Across languages

Translations

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: ٱَلْحَوَاسُّ ٱلْخَمْسُ (l-ḥawāssu l-ḵamsu) — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Armenian: հինգ զգայարաններ (hing zgayaranner) — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Burmese: အာရုံငါးပါး (arumnga:pa:) — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Chinese Mandarin: 五感 (wǔgǎn) — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Chinese Mandarin: 五官感覺 /五官感觉 (wǔguān gǎnjué) — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Czech: pět smyslů — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Finnish: viisi aistia — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • French: cinq sens — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • German: fünf Sinne — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Greek: πέντε αισθήσεις (pénte aisthíseis) — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Ancient Greek: πέντε αἰσθήσεις (pénte aisthḗseis) — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Hebrew: חמשת החושים (khaméshet hakhushím) — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Hungarian: öt érzék — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Indonesian: pancaindra — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Irish: na cúig céadfaí — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Italian: cinque sensi — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Japanese: 五感 (gokan) — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Korean: 오감 (ogam) — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Malay: pancaindera — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Polish: pięć zmysłów — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Portuguese: cinco sentidos — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Spanish: cinco sentidos — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Sundanese: pancadria — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Vietnamese: ngũ giác — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
  • Vietnamese: năm giác quan — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch