deodorant

See also: Deodorant and déodorant

English

Alternative forms

• deodourant (rare)

Etymology

From Latin de- + odorans, present participle of odorare (“to smell”), from odor (“a smell”); see odor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diˈəʊdəɹənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /diˈoʊdəɹənt/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

deodorant (plural deodorants)

1. Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.
   1. An odor-controlling substance applied to the underarm to counteract odor from perspiration.

Derived terms

• success is a great deodorant
• winning is a great deodorant

Related terms

• odor
• odorous

Translations

any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor

• Asturian: desodorante m
• Bulgarian: дезодора́нт m (dezodoránt)
• Finnish: hajunpoistoaine, hajunpoistaja
• Galician: desodorizante (gl) m
• Greek: αποσμητικό (el) n (aposmitikó)
• Indonesian: deodoran (id)
• Italian: deodorante (it) m
• Macedonian: дезодора́нс m (dezodoráns)
• Norman: d'sodorant m
• Polish: dezodorant (pl) m
• Portuguese: desodorante (pt)
• Russian: дезодора́нт (ru) m (dezodoránt)

odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm

• Albanian: deodorant m
• Arabic: مُزِيل اَلْعَرَق‎ m (muzīl al-ʿaraq), مُزِيل اَلرَّائِحَة‎ m (muzīl ar-rāʾiḥa)
• Armenian: հոտազերծիչ (hy) (hotazercičʿ)
• Asturian: desodorante m
• Azerbaijani: dezodorant
• Belarusian: дэзадара́нт m (dezadaránt)
• Bulgarian: дезодора́нт m (dezodoránt)
• Catalan: desodorant m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體香劑 (zh), 体香剂 (zh) (tǐxiāngjì), 除臭劑 (zh), 除臭剂 (zh) (chúchòujì), 防臭劑 (zh), 防臭剂 (zh) (fángchòujì), 脫臭劑, 脱臭剂 (tuōchòujì)

• Czech: deodorant (cs) m
• Danish: deodorant (da) c
• Dutch: deodorant (nl), deo (nl) m
• Esperanto: senodorigilo
• Estonian: desodorant
• Faroese: deodorantur m
• Finnish: deodorantti (fi), dödö (fi)
• French: déodorant (fr) m
• Galician: desodorizante (gl) m
• Georgian: დეზოდორანტი (dezodoranṭi)
• German: Deodorant (de) n, Deo (de) n
• Greek: αποσμητικό (el) n (aposmitikó)
• Greenlandic: unersunniiaat
• Hebrew: דֶּאוֹדוֹרַנְט‎ (he) m (deodoránt'), אַל־רֵיחַ‎ m (al-ré'akh)
• Hindi: दुर्गन्धहर (durgandhahar), गंधहर (hi) (gandhhar), गन्धहर (hi) (gandhahar)
• Hungarian: dezodor (hu)
• Icelandic: svitalyktareyðir (is) m
• Indonesian: deodoran (id)
• Italian: deodorante (it) m
• Japanese: デオドラント (deodoranto)
• Kazakh: дезодорант (dezodorant)
• Khmer: ថ្នាំបំបាត់ក្លិន (thnambɑmbatklən)
• Korean: 탈취제(脫臭劑) (talchwije), 데오도란트 (de'odoranteu)
• Kyrgyz: дезодорант (dezodorant)
• Lao: ຢາດັບກິ່ນ (yā dap kin)
• Latvian: dezodorants m
• Lithuanian: dezodorantas m
• Macedonian: дезодора́нс m (dezodoráns)
• Malay: deodoran (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дезодорант (dezodorant), үнэр дарагч (üner daragč)

• Norman: d'sodorant m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: deodorant m

• Persian: دئودورانت‎ (deodorânt), بو زدا‎ (bu zodâ)
• Polish: dezodorant (pl) m
• Portuguese: desodorante (pt) m
• Romanian: deodorant (ro) m
• Romansch: deodorant m
• Russian: дезодора́нт (ru) m (dezodoránt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дезодоранс m

  Roman: dezodorans (sh) m

• Slovak: deodorant (sk) m
• Slovene: deodorant m
• Spanish: desodorante (es) m
• Swahili: kuondoa harufu
• Swedish: deodorant (sv)
• Tajik: дезодорант (dezodorant)
• Thai: ยาดับกลิ่น (yaa-dàp-glìn)
• Tibetan: དྲི་ངན་སངས་སྨན (dri ngan sangs sman)
• Turkish: deodorant (tr)
• Ukrainian: дезодора́нт m (dezodoránt)
• Uzbek: dezodorant
• Vietnamese: bay mùi, chất khử mùi
• Welsh: diaroglydd m
• Yiddish: דעאָדאָראַנט‎ m (deodorant)

Adjective

deodorant (not comparable)

1. acting or including an agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor

Translations

acting to control odor

• Bulgarian: дезодорант (dezodorant)
• German: geruchtilgend (de)
• Greek: αποσμητικός (el) m (aposmitikós)
• Italian: deodorante (it)
• Norman: d'sodothant

See also

• antiperspirant

References

• deodorant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• deodorant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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Czech

Noun

deodorant m

1. deodorant (odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm)

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Danish

Noun

deodorant c (singular definite deodoranten, plural indefinite deodoranter)

1. deodorant

Declension

Declension of deodorant

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	deodorant	deodoranten	deodoranter	deodoranterne
genitive	deodorants	deodorantens	deodoranters	deodoranternes

Further reading

• “deodorant” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• deodorans (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from English deodorant or French déodorant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdeː.oː.doːˈrɑnt/
• Hyphenation: de‧odo‧rant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

deodorant m or n (plural deodoranten)

1. deodorant

Derived terms

• deo
• deodorantbus

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Indonesian

Noun

deodorant (first-person possessive deodorantku, second-person possessive deodorantmu, third-person possessive deodorantnya)

1. Alternative spelling of deodoran (“deodorant”)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French déodorant.

Noun

deodorant n (plural deodoranți)

1. deodorant

Declension

Declension of deodorant

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) deodorant	deodorantul	(niște) deodoranți	deodoranțile
genitive/dative	(unui) deodorant	deodorantului	(unor) deodoranți	deodoranților
vocative	deodorantule		deodoranților

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English deodorant.

Noun

deodorant c

1. deodorant

   Synonym: (colloquial) deo

Declension

Declension of deodorant
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	deodorant	deodoranten	deodoranter	deodoranterna
Genitive	deodorants	deodorantens	deodoranters	deodoranternas