deodorant

See also: Deodorant and déodorant

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• deodourant (rare)

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

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NounEdit

deodorant (plural deodorants)

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

Related termsEdit

• odor
• odorous

TranslationsEdit

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)

• Italian: deodorante (it) m
• Macedonian: дезодора́нс m (dezodoráns)
• Norman: d'sodorant m
• 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 (hotazercičʿ)
• Asturian: desodorante m
• 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 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
• Italian: deodorante (it) m
• Japanese: デオドラント (deodoranto)
• Kazakh: дезодорант (dezodorant)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can

• Korean: 탈취제 (talchwije), 데오도란트 (de-odoranteu)
• Kyrgyz: дезодорант (dezodorant)
• Lao: ຢາດັບກິ່ນ (yā dap kin)
• Latvian: dezodorants m
• Lithuanian: dezodorantas m
• Macedonian: дезодора́нс m (dezodoráns)
• Malay: deodoran
• Norman: d'sodorant m
• Norwegian: deodorant m
• Persian: دئودورانت‎‎ (deodorânt)
• 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)
• Thai: ยาดับกลิ่น (yaa dàp glìn)
• Tibetan: དྲི་ངན་སངས་སྨན (dri ngan sangs sman)
• Turkish: deodorant (tr)
• Ukrainian: дезодора́нт m (dezodoránt)
• Vietnamese: bay mùi, chất khử mùi
• Welsh: diaroglydd m
• Yiddish: דעאָדאָראַנט‎‎ m (deodorant)

AdjectiveEdit

deodorant (not comparable)

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

TranslationsEdit

acting to control odor

• Bulgarian: дезодорант (dezodorant)
• German: geruchtilgend (de)
• Greek: αποσμητικός (el) m (aposmitikós)

• Italian: deodorante (it)
• Norman: d'sodothant

See alsoEdit

• antiperspirant

ReferencesEdit

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

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CzechEdit

NounEdit

deodorant m

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

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DanishEdit

NounEdit

deodorant c (singular definite deodoranten, plural indefinite deodoranter)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

DeclensionEdit

Declension of deodorant

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

Further readingEdit

• “deodorant” in Den Danske Ordbog