stink

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From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengw-, *stegw- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”). Compare typologically Russian рази́ть (razítʹ).

191 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aromanian: putoari — strong bad smell
• Basque: kirats — strong bad smell
• Bulgarian: воня (vonja) — strong bad smell
• Catalan: pudor — strong bad smell
• Crimean Tatar: sasıq — strong bad smell
• Czech: smrad — strong bad smell
• Dutch: stank — strong bad smell
• Evenki: ӈо̄ (ŋō) — strong bad smell
• Finnish: löyhkä — strong bad smell
• Finnish: haju — strong bad smell
• French: puanteur — strong bad smell
• Galician: fedor — strong bad smell
• Galician: tufo — strong bad smell
• German: Gestank — strong bad smell
• Greek: μπόχα (bócha) — strong bad smell
• Ancient Greek: βρῶμος (brômos) — strong bad smell
• Ancient Greek: δυσωδία (dusōdía) — strong bad smell
• Ancient Greek: δυσοσμία (dusosmía) — strong bad smell
• Hungarian: bűz — strong bad smell
• Italian: puzza — strong bad smell
• Italian: fetore — strong bad smell
• Japanese: 悪臭 (akushū) — strong bad smell
• Kazakh: сасық (sasyq) — strong bad smell
• Latin: paedor — strong bad smell
• Latin: foetor — strong bad smell
• Lithuanian: smarvė — strong bad smell
• Malayalam: ദുർഗന്ധം (duṟgandhaṁ) — strong bad smell
• Malayalam: നാറ്റം (nāṟṟaṁ) — strong bad smell
• Māori: hīrearea — strong bad smell
• Norwegian Bokmål: stank — strong bad smell
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stank — strong bad smell
• Plautdietsch: Jestank — strong bad smell
• Polish: smród — strong bad smell
• Polish: odór — strong bad smell
• Portuguese: fedor — strong bad smell
• Portuguese: fetidez — strong bad smell
• Romanian: putoare — strong bad smell
• Russian: вонь (vonʹ) — strong bad smell
• Sicilian: fetu — strong bad smell
• Swedish: stank — strong bad smell
• Telugu: కంపు (kampu) — strong bad smell
• Volapük: lusmel — strong bad smell
• French: tapage — informal: complaint or objection
• Hungarian: balhé — informal: complaint or objection
• Hungarian: botrány — informal: complaint or objection
• Hungarian: patália — informal: complaint or objection
• Italian: protesta — informal: complaint or objection
• Italian: reclamo — informal: complaint or objection
• Bulgarian: химия (himija) — slang: chemistry
• Arabic: نَتُنَ (natuna) — have a strong bad smell
• Arabic: نَتِنَ (natina) — have a strong bad smell
• Aromanian: mput (roa-rup) — have a strong bad smell
• Aromanian: amput (roa-rup) — have a strong bad smell
• Aromanian: mputsãscu (roa-rup) — have a strong bad smell
• Belarusian: смярдзе́ць (smjardzjécʹ) — have a strong bad smell
• Bulgarian: смърдя́ (smǎrdjá) — have a strong bad smell
• Bulgarian: воня (vonja) — have a strong bad smell
• Burmese: နံ (nam) — have a strong bad smell
• Catalan: pudir — have a strong bad smell
• Chickasaw: kosoma — have a strong bad smell
• Chickasaw: shoha — have a strong bad smell
• Chinese Mandarin: 發臭 /发臭 (fāchòu) — have a strong bad smell
• Chinese Mandarin: 發臭味 /发臭味 (fā chòuwèi) — have a strong bad smell
• Chinese Mandarin: 發惡臭 /发恶臭 (fā èchòu) — have a strong bad smell
• Crimean Tatar: sasımaq — have a strong bad smell
• Czech: páchnout — have a strong bad smell
• Czech: smrdět — have a strong bad smell
• Czech: zapáchat — have a strong bad smell
• Danish: stinke — have a strong bad smell
• Dutch: stinken — have a strong bad smell
• Esperanto: fetori — have a strong bad smell
• Esperanto: malbonodori — have a strong bad smell
• Extremaduran: cheral — have a strong bad smell
• Finnish: haista — have a strong bad smell
• French: puer — have a strong bad smell
• French: empester — have a strong bad smell
• Galician: feder — have a strong bad smell
• Galician: abafar — have a strong bad smell
• Galician: cheirar — have a strong bad smell
• Galician: alcatrear — have a strong bad smell
• Galician: fedechar — have a strong bad smell
• Galician: gafar — have a strong bad smell
• Galician: imbrar — have a strong bad smell
• Georgian: ყარს (q̇ars) — have a strong bad smell
• German: stinken — have a strong bad smell
• German: riechen — have a strong bad smell
• German: müffeln — have a strong bad smell
• Greek: βρομάω (vromáo) — have a strong bad smell
• Greek: μυρίζω (myrízo) — have a strong bad smell
• Ancient Greek: ὄζω (ózō) — have a strong bad smell
• Ancient Greek: βρωμέω (brōméō) — have a strong bad smell
• Hawaiian: hauna — have a strong bad smell
• Hebrew: הִסְרִיחַ — have a strong bad smell
• Hindi: गंधाना (gandhānā) — have a strong bad smell
• White Hmong: tsw phem — have a strong bad smell
• Hungarian: bűzlik — have a strong bad smell
• Hungarian: büdös — have a strong bad smell
• Hunsrik: stinke — have a strong bad smell
• Icelandic: þefja — have a strong bad smell
• Ingrian: lemissä haissa — have a strong bad smell
• Italian: puzzare — have a strong bad smell
• Japanese: 臭う (niou) — have a strong bad smell
• Japanese: 悪臭を放つ (akushū o hanatsu) — have a strong bad smell
• Kazakh: сасу (sasu) — have a strong bad smell
• Khmer: ស្អុយ (sʼoy) — have a strong bad smell
• Korean: 악취를 풍기다 (akchwireul punggida) — have a strong bad smell
• Lao: ເຫມັນ (men) — have a strong bad smell
• Latin: foeteō — have a strong bad smell
• Latvian: smirdēt — have a strong bad smell
• Lithuanian: smirdėti — have a strong bad smell
• Lushootseed: ʔihəl — have a strong bad smell
• Macedonian: смрди (smrdi) — have a strong bad smell
• Malay: busuk — have a strong bad smell
• Malayalam: നാറുക (nāṟuka) — have a strong bad smell
• Malayalam: ദുർഗന്ധം വമിക്കുക (duṟgandhaṁ vamikkuka) — have a strong bad smell
• Neapolitan: fete — have a strong bad smell
• Occitan: pudir — have a strong bad smell
• Ojibwe: maazhimaagozi — have a strong bad smell
• Ojibwe: maazhimaagwad — have a strong bad smell
• Polish: śmierdzieć — have a strong bad smell
• Polish: cuchnąć — have a strong bad smell
• Polish: trącić — have a strong bad smell
• Polish: capić — have a strong bad smell
• Polish: walić — have a strong bad smell
• Polish: jebać (vulg.) — have a strong bad smell
• Polish: jechać — have a strong bad smell
• Portuguese: feder — have a strong bad smell
• Portuguese: tresandar — have a strong bad smell
• Quechua: hunyay — have a strong bad smell
• Quechua: asnay — have a strong bad smell
• Quechua: asnai — have a strong bad smell
• Quechua: asyai — have a strong bad smell
• Romanian: puți — have a strong bad smell
• Russian: воня́ть (vonjátʹ) — have a strong bad smell
• Russian: смерде́ть (smerdétʹ) — have a strong bad smell
• Russian: ду́рно па́хнуть (dúrno páxnutʹ) — have a strong bad smell
• Sanskrit: पूयति (pūyati) — have a strong bad smell
• Savosavo: boto — have a strong bad smell
• Scots: ming — have a strong bad smell
• Serbo-Croatian: смрдити — have a strong bad smell
• Serbo-Croatian: smrditi — have a strong bad smell
• Sicilian: fetiri — have a strong bad smell
• Slovak: smrdieť — have a strong bad smell
• Slovak: páchnuť — have a strong bad smell
• Slovene: smrdeti — have a strong bad smell
• Spanish: heder — have a strong bad smell
• Spanish: apestar — have a strong bad smell
• Spanish: cantar — have a strong bad smell
• Spanish: oler mal — have a strong bad smell
• Spanish: pudir — have a strong bad smell
• Spanish: empestar — have a strong bad smell
• Spanish: atufar — have a strong bad smell
• Spanish: carcavinar — have a strong bad smell
• Spanish: jeder — have a strong bad smell
• Spanish: jier — have a strong bad smell
• Spanish: corromper — have a strong bad smell
• Sranan Tongo: tingi — have a strong bad smell
• Swahili: nuka — have a strong bad smell
• Swedish: stinka — have a strong bad smell
• Tamil: நாறு (nāṟu) — have a strong bad smell
• Telugu: దుర్గంధము (durgandhamu) — have a strong bad smell
• Thai: เหม็น (měn) — have a strong bad smell
• Ukrainian: смерді́ти (smerdíty) — have a strong bad smell
• Vietnamese: bốc mùi thối — have a strong bad smell
• Vietnamese: bay mùi thối — have a strong bad smell
• Vietnamese: thối — have a strong bad smell
• Volapük: lusmelön — have a strong bad smell
• Welsh: drewi — have a strong bad smell
• Yiddish: שטינקען (shtinken) — have a strong bad smell
• Finnish: haista — informal: be greatly inferior
• German: stinken — informal: be greatly inferior
• Hungarian: pocsék — informal: be greatly inferior
• Hungarian: vacak — informal: be greatly inferior
• Hungarian: ócska — informal: be greatly inferior
• Hungarian: csapnivaló — informal: be greatly inferior
• Hungarian: szar — informal: be greatly inferior
• Italian: fare schifo — informal: be greatly inferior
• Japanese: くだらない (kudaranai) — informal: be greatly inferior
• Spanish: apestar — informal: be greatly inferior
• Swedish: vara urusel — informal: be greatly inferior
• Dutch: stinken — give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
• Finnish: haista — give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
• German: stinken — give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
• Greek: βρομάω (vromáo) — give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
• Hungarian: bűzlik — give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
• Italian: puzzare — give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
• Japanese: 臭い (kusai) — give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
• Polish: śmierdzieć — give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
• Russian: веять (vejatʹ) — give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
• Russian: нести за версту (nesti za verstu) — give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
• Swedish: stinka — give an impression of dishonesty or untruth