incense

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From Middle English encens, from Old French encens (“sweet-smelling substance”) from Late Latin incensum (“burnt incense”, literally “something burnt”), neuter past participle of incendō (“to set on fire”). Compare incendiary. Doublet of incienso. Displaced native Old English rēcels.

179 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Acehnese: keumeunyan — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Albanian: kem — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Albanian: temjan — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Arabic: بَخُور (baḵūr) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Arabic: بُخُور (buḵūr) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Arabic: بخور (baḵūr) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Arabic: بخور (baḵūr) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Armenian: խունկ (xunk) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Armenian: ծխանելիք (cxanelikʻ) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Asturian: inciensu — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Azerbaijani: buxur — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Belarusian: ла́дан (ládan) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Belarusian: фімія́м (fimijám) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Belarusian: кадзі́ла (kadzíla) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Bengali: ধূপ (dhup) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Bulgarian: тамя́н (tamján) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Burmese: အမွှေး (a.hmwe:) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Catalan: encens — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Chinese Cantonese: 香 (hoeng1) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Chinese Mandarin: 香 (xiāng) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Corsican: incensu — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Corsican: encensu — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Czech: kadidlo — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Danish: røgelse — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Danish: virak — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Dutch: wierook — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Dzongkha: སྤོས (spos) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Egyptian: nTr-sn-T:r:N33A (snṯr) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Esperanto: incenso — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Estonian: viiruk — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Faroese: roykilsi — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Finnish: suitsuke — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• French: encens — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Friulian: incens — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Galician: incenso — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Georgian: საკმეველი (saḳmeveli) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• German: Weihrauch — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• German: Räuchwerk — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Greek: λιβάνι (liváni) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Ancient Greek: θυμίαμα (thumíama) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Hawaiian: heona — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Hebrew: קטורת — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Hebrew: קְטֹרֶת (któret) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Hindi: अगरबत्ती (agarbattī) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Hindi: धूपबत्ती (dhūpbattī) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Hungarian: füstölő — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Icelandic: reykelsi — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Ido: incenso — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Indonesian: kemenyan — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Indonesian: dupa — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Irish: túis — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Italian: incenso — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Italian: olibano — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Japanese: 薫香 (kunkō) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Japanese: 香 (kō) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Kazakh: ладан (ladan) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Khmer: ធូប (thuup) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Korean: 향 (hyang) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Lao: ທູບ (thūp) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Lao: ກໍາຍານ (kam nyān) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Latin: thūs — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Latin: suffīmen — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Latin: thȳmiāma — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Latvian: vīraks — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Ligurian: incénso — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Lithuanian: smilkalai — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Lombard: incens — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Macedonian: темјан (temjan) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Macedonian: благомирис (blagomiris) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Malay: dupa — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Malay: kemenyan — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Malay: setanggi — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Maltese: inċens — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Maltese: bħur — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Māori: whakakakara — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Mongolian: сан (san) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠩ (sang) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Muna: dupa — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Norman: enchens — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Norwegian Bokmål: virak — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Norwegian Bokmål: røkelse — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Norwegian Bokmål: røykelse — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Norwegian Nynorsk: virak — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Norwegian Nynorsk: røykjelse — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Church Slavic: ѳѵмїамъ (θümiamŭ) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Church Slavic: темьꙗнъ (temĭjanŭ) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Church Slavic: кадило (kadilo) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Old East Slavic: темьанъ (temĭanŭ) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Old East Slavic: ладанъ (ladanŭ) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Old East Slavic: кадило (kadilo) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Old English: rēcels — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Oromo: qayya — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Pali: dhūpa — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Persian: عود ('ud) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Persian: بخور (boxur) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Piedmontese: incens — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Plautdietsch: Ruakstoff — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Plautdietsch: Weiruak — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Pohnpeian: warpwohmwahu — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Pohnpeian: insens — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Polish: kadzidło — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Portuguese: incenso — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Punic: 𐤒𐤈𐤓𐤕 (qṭrt) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Romagnol: incéns — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Romagnol: inzéns — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Romanian: tămâie — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Russian: ла́дан (ládan) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Russian: фимиа́м (fimiám) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Russian: темья́н (temʹján) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Russian: кади́ло (kadílo) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Sanskrit: धूप (dhūpa) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Sardinian: timagna — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Sardinian: timanza — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Sardinian: timonza — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Serbo-Croatian: та̀мјан — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Serbo-Croatian: tàmjan — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Slovak: kadidlo — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Slovene: kadilo — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Spanish: incienso — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Spanish: sahumerio — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Spanish: sahúmo — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Swahili: ubani — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Swedish: rökelse (virak c) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Tagalog: dupa — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Tagalog: insenso — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Tagalog: astangi — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Tajik: бухур (buxur) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Tamil: ஊதுபத்தி (ūtupatti) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Ternate: dupa — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Thai: กํายาน (gam-yaan) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Thai: ธูป (tûup) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Tibetan: སྤོས (spos) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Turkish: tütsü — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Ottoman Turkish: كونلك (günlük) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Ottoman Turkish: بخور (bahur, buhur) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Ukrainian: ла́дан (ládan) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Ukrainian: фіміа́м (fimiám) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Ukrainian: кади́ло (kadýlo) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Ukrainian: ку́риво (kúryvo) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Urdu: بخور (buxūr) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Uzbek: ladan — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Vietnamese: hương — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Vietnamese: nhang — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Welsh: thus — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Welsh: arogldarth — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Wolof: cuuraay — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Yiddish: קטורת (któyres) — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Yucatec Maya: poom — material burnt for fragrant smoke
• Bulgarian: вбеся́вам (vbesjávam) — anger, infuriate
• Bulgarian: разяря́вам (razjarjávam) — anger, infuriate
• Dutch: vertoornen — anger, infuriate
• Dutch: de woede opwekken van — anger, infuriate
• Finnish: raivostuttaa — anger, infuriate
• German: empören — anger, infuriate
• German: erzürnen — anger, infuriate
• German: aufbringen — anger, infuriate
• Greek: εξοργίζω (exorgízo) — anger, infuriate
• Polish: rozdrażniać — anger, infuriate
• Polish: rozdrażnić — anger, infuriate
• Polish: rozzłaszczać — anger, infuriate
• Polish: rozzłościć — anger, infuriate
• Russian: серди́ть (serdítʹ) — anger, infuriate
• Russian: рассерди́ть (rasserdítʹ) — anger, infuriate
• Russian: беси́ть (besítʹ) — anger, infuriate
• Russian: взбеси́ть (vzbesítʹ) — anger, infuriate
• Russian: разъяря́ть (razʺjarjátʹ) — anger, infuriate
• Russian: разъяри́ть (razʺjarítʹ) — anger, infuriate
• Russian: разгне́вать (razgnévatʹ) — anger, infuriate
• Russian: разозли́ть (razozlítʹ) — anger, infuriate
• Spanish: enchilar — anger, infuriate
• Spanish: encolerizar — anger, infuriate
• Spanish: enfurecer — anger, infuriate
• Spanish: indignar — anger, infuriate
• Hebrew: הִקְטִיר (hiqtír) — transitive: to offer incense to / to perfume with, or as with, incense
• Polish: perfumować kadzidłem — transitive: to offer incense to / to perfume with, or as with, incense
• Polish: wyperfumować kadzidłem — transitive: to offer incense to / to perfume with, or as with, incense
• Spanish: incensar — transitive: to offer incense to / to perfume with, or as with, incense
• Spanish: sahumar — transitive: to offer incense to / to perfume with, or as with, incense
• Spanish: incensariar — transitive: to offer incense to / to perfume with, or as with, incense