agarwood

English

Etymology

agar +‎ wood. The element agar is ultimately from Dravidian, probably Tamil அகில் (akil).

Noun

agarwood (countable and uncountable, plural agarwoods)

1. Heartwood from trees of genus Aquilaria, especially Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. A. agallocha), infected with mold (Phialophora parasitica), which produce an aromatic resin in response to this infestation.

Synonyms

• (Aquilaria heartwood): agalloch, agallochum, agalwood, agilawood, aloewood, aloeswood, aloes, aguila wood, aquilawood, eaglewood, jinko, lignaloe, oud, gaharu, xylaloe

Translations

type of heartwood

• Arabic: عُود (ar) m (ʕūd), رَنْد m (rand), قُطُر (ar) m (quṭur)
• Armenian: հալվե (hy) (halve)
• Bengali: অগুরু (bn) (oguru), আগর (agor)
• Catalan: agàl·loc m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沉香 (cam⁴ hoeng¹)

  Mandarin: 沉香 (zh) (chénxiāng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: agarpuu
• French: calamba (fr) m, gaharu m, bois d’aigle (fr) m, agalloche (fr)
• German: Adlerholz n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀγάλοχον n (agálokhon), ξυλαλόη f (xulalóē)

• Hindi: अगर (hi) m (agar), कालागरू (hi) m (kālāgrū)
• Japanese: 沈香 (ja) (jinkō)
• Korean: 침향 (chimhyang)
• Old Armenian: հալուէ (haluē)
• Ottoman Turkish: عود آغاجی (öd ağacı)
• Polish: agar (pl) m
• Portuguese: calambac m, madeira de aloes f, calambuco m
• Russian: каламба́к m (kalambák), ало́йное де́рево n (alójnoje dérevo), орли́ное де́рево n (orlínoje dérevo)
• Sanskrit: अगरु (sa) m (agaru), कालागुरु (sa) m (kālāguru), काल (sa) m (kāla)
• Spanish: agáloco (es), áloe (es)
• Swedish: örnträ n
• Tagalog: kalamba
• Tamil: அகில் (ta) (akil)
• Telugu: అగరుగంధపు (agarugandhapu)
• Thai: กฤษณา (th) (grìt-sà-nǎa)
• Tibetan: ཨ་ག་རུ (a ga ru)
• Turkish: öd ağacı (tr)
• Vaghri: અગર (agar)
• Vietnamese: trầm hương (vi)

References

• agarwood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “agarwood”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “agarwood”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.