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):

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  • Rhymes: -eɪɡɹənt
• IPA^(key): (obsolete) /ˈfɹæ.ɡɹənt/

Adjective

fragrant (comparative more fragrant, superlative most fragrant)

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

   fragrant flower

   fragrant smell

2. (UK, sometimes ironic or patronising) Attractive.
   • 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

• fragrancy
• fragrant agrimony (Agrimonia procera)
• fragrant angelica (Angelica dahurica)
• fragrant azalea (Rhododendron arborescens)
• fragrant balm
• fragrant bedstraw (Galium triflorum)
• fragrant cliff fern
• fragrant goldenrod (Solidago odora)
• fragrantly
• fragrant magnolia
• fragrant meat
• fragrantness
• fragrant orchid (Gymnadenia conopsea)
• fragrant rosewood (Dalbergia odorifera)
• fragrant shield fern
• fragrant snowbell (Styrax obassia)
• fragrant solomon's seal
• fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica)
• fragrant water lily (Nymphaea odorata)
• fragrant wood fern
• fragrant woodsia
• infragrant
• nonfragrant
• overfragrant
• unfragrant

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)

Latin

Verb

frāgrant

1. 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)

1. fragrant

Declension

Declension of fragrant

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