Head anatomy with olfactory nerve.Etymology
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From Latin olfactus.
olfaction (plural olfactions)
- The sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules.
2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 105:‘I think the single most extraordinary aspect of olfaction is that we all smell the world differently,’ Beauchamp told me.
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the sense of smell
- Arabic: شَمّ m (šamm)
- Armenian: հոտառություն (hy) (hotaṙutʿyun)
- Basque: usaimen (eu)
- Belarusian: нюх m (njux)
- Bulgarian: обоня́ние (bg) n (obonjánie), нюх (bg) m (njuh)
- Catalan: olfacte (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 嗅覺／嗅觉 (cau3 gok3)
- Hokkien: 嗅覺／嗅觉 (hiù-kak)
- Mandarin: 嗅覺／嗅觉 (zh) (xiùjué)
- Czech: čich (cs) m
- Dutch: reukzin (nl) m
- Esperanto: flarsenso
- Finnish: hajuaisti (fi), haistaminen (fi), haju (fi)
- French: olfaction (fr) f, odorat (fr) m
- Galician: olfacto (gl) m, olfate m, álido m, ulido m, cheiro (gl) m, ventas (gl) f
- German: Geruchssinn (de) m, Geruch (de) n
- Greek: όσφρησις f (ósfrisis)
- Hindi: गंधानुभूति m (gandhānubhūti)
- Hungarian: szaglás (hu)
- Italian: olfatto (it) m, odorato (it) m
- Japanese: 嗅覚 (ja) (きゅうかく, kyūkaku)
- Korean: 후각 (ko) (hugak)
- Latin: olfactus m
- Latvian: oža f
- Lithuanian: uoslė f
- Macedonian: мирис m (miris), сетило за мирис n (setilo za miris)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: luktesans m
- Persian: بویایی (fa)
- Polish: węch (pl) m
- Portuguese: olfato (pt) m, faro (pt) m
- Romanian: miros (ro) n
- Russian: обоня́ние (ru) n (obonjánije), нюх (ru) m (njux)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: њу̑х m
- Roman: njȗh (sh) m
- Slovak: čuch (sk) m
- Slovene: voh m
- Spanish: olfato (es) m
- Swedish: luktsinne (sv), lukt (sv)
- Tajik: шомма (šomma)
- Turkish: koku alma duyusu (tr), koku duyusu, olfaksiyon
- Ukrainian: нюх m (njux)
- Vietnamese: khứu giác (vi)
- Walloon: oda (wa)
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