fragrant

English

Alternative forms

fragraunt (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frāgrāns, present active participle of frāgrō (“I smell”).

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹeɪ.ɡɹənt/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪɡɹənt

Adjective

fragrant (comparative more fragrant, superlative most fragrant)

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

Synonyms

aromatic

Antonyms

fetid, noisome, pungent, smelly

Derived terms

Related terms

fragrance

Translations

sweet-smelling

Arabic: رَيًّا (rayyan), عَبِق (ʕabiq)
Armenian: անուշաբույր (hy) (anušabuyr)
Bikol Central: 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)
Ancient: εὔοσμος (eúosmos)
Hawaiian: ʻala, ʻaʻala
Higaonon: mahumut
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
Mongolian: анхилам (mn) (anxilam)
Norwegian: duftende
Bokmål: velluktende

Nynorsk: velluktande
Pashto: خوش بو (khūsh-bū)
Plautdietsch: scheenrikjent
Polish: pachnący (pl) m, wonny (pl) m
Portuguese: cheiroso (pt) m
Romanian: fragrant (ro)
Russian: арома́тный (ru) (aromátnyj), благоуха́ющий (ru) (blagouxájuščij), души́стый (ru) (dušístyj), благоуха́нный (ru) (blagouxánnyj), благово́нный (ru) (blagovónnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: cùbhraidh
Spanish: fragante (es), perfumado (es)
Sundanese: ᮓᮜᮤᮀᮓᮤᮀ (dalingding)
Tagalog: mabango (tl)
Thai: หอม (th) (hɔ̌ɔm)
Turkish: ıtırlı (tr), rayihalı (tr)
Ukrainian: ароматний (uk) m (aromatnyj), запашний (uk) m (zapašnyj), пахучий m (paxučyj)
Vietnamese: thơm (vi)
Welsh: persawr (cy), pêr (cy), peraroglus

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Translations to be checked

Pashto: ^{(please verify)} بوي (ps) (bū-e) (smell, odour, scent)

Latin

Verb

frāgrant

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 and neuter plural fragrante)

fragrant

Declension

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