parfum
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French parfum. Doublet of perfume.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editparfum (usually uncountable, plural parfums)
- (cosmetics) Fragrance; perfume.
- 1926, The Magazine of The Women’s City Club of Detroit, page 42:
- Did you ever dream of a Beauty Shop De Luxe? A charming place of sweet parfums, crystal mirrors, flowered chintzes and soft pastel tints—a lovely salon of beauty, where fresh colors and smart furniture make beauty rites an occasion of pleasure and inspiration?
- 1930, The New Yorker, volume 6, page 111:
- For Christmas, give a jewel-like flacon of this most exclusive and personal of parfums.
- 1944 April, Jewelers’ Circular-Keystone, page 232:
- WANTED 10 top flight salesmen in different sections to introduce fine line of parfums made expressly to sell in jewelry stores, also lighters and other exclusive imports.
Usage notes
edit- Used in ingredient lists, etc.
Related terms
editDutch
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle French parfum, from parfumer.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /pɑrˈfʏm/, (nonstandard, uncommon) /ˈpɑr.fʏm/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: par‧fum
- Rhymes: -ʏm
Noun
editparfum n (plural parfums, diminutive parfumpje n)
- A perfume, a luxury product providing a fragrant scent.
- A perfume, a pleasant scent.
- De roos Friesia verspreidt een hemels parfum.
- The rose Friesia gives out a heavenly scent.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
editFrench
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French parfumer (“to scent”), borrowed from Old Occitan perfumar or another language around the Mediterranean coast, cf. Italian profumare, themselves from Latin per- (“through, thoroughly”) + fumāre (“to smoke”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editparfum m (plural parfums)
- perfume (scented toiletry)
- scent, desirable smell
- flavour, aroma, taste (e.g., of ice cream)
- Le parfum des framboises est rarement naturel.
- Raspberry flavor is rarely natural
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Danish: parfume
- → Dutch: parfum
- → German: Parfüm (see there for further descendants)
- → Romanian: parfum
- → Turkish: parfüm
Further reading
edit- “parfum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Dutch parfum, from Middle French parfum, from Latin per- (“through, thoroughly”) + fumāre (“to smoke”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editparfum (first-person possessive parfumku, second-person possessive parfummu, third-person possessive parfumnya)
- perfume,
- a pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor
- a substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “parfum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French parfum, from Latin perfumāre.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editparfum n (plural parfumuri)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) parfum | parfumul | (niște) parfumuri | parfumurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) parfum | parfumului | (unor) parfumuri | parfumurilor |
vocative | parfumule | parfumurilor |
See also
editSlovene
editPronunciation
editNoun
editparfȗm m inan
- perfume (substance providing a pleasant smell)
Inflection
editMasculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | parfúm | ||
gen. sing. | parfúma | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
parfúm | parfúma | parfúmi |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
parfúma | parfúmov | parfúmov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
parfúmu | parfúmoma | parfúmom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
parfúm | parfúma | parfúme |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
parfúmu | parfúmih | parfúmih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
parfúmom | parfúmoma | parfúmi |
Further reading
edit- “parfum”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “parfum”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
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- en:Cosmetics
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ʏm
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- nl:Smell
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- fr:Smell
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- Rhymes:Indonesian/fʊm
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- Rhymes:Indonesian/ʊm
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ʊm/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Indonesian/m
- Rhymes:Indonesian/m/2 syllables
- Indonesian lemmas
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- ro:Smell
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- sl:Smell