stench

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English stench, from Old English stenċ ‎(“stench, odor, fragrance”), from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz ‎(“smell, fragrance, odor”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- ‎(“to push, hit”). Cognate with Dutch stank ‎(“stench, odor”), German Stank, Gestank ‎(“stench, odor, smell”), Danish stank ‎(“stench”), Swedish stank ‎(“stench”), Icelandic stækja ‎(“stench”).

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ɛntʃ

NounEdit

stench ‎(plural stenches)

1. a strong foul smell, a stink
2. (figuratively) a foul quality

   the stench of political corruption

3. (obsolete) A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.
   • Dryden

     Clouds of savoury stench involve the sky.

SynonymsEdit

• (disagreeable smell): stink, pong (Commonwealth)

AntonymsEdit

• (disagreeable smell): aroma, fragrance, perfume

Derived termsEdit

• stenchy

TranslationsEdit

a strong foul smell, a stink

• Arabic: نَتَانَة f ‎(natāna)
• Armenian: գարշահոտություն (hy) ‎(garšahotutʿyun)
• Basque: kirats (eu)
• Belarusian: смурод m ‎(smuród), вонь f ‎(vonʹ)
• Bulgarian: смрад (bg) m ‎(smrad), воня (bg) f ‎(vónja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 惡臭 (zh), 恶臭 (zh) ‎(èchòu), 臭 (zh) ‎(chòu), 腐臭 (zh) ‎(fǔchòu), 臭氣 (zh), 臭气 (zh) ‎(chòuqì), 臭味 (zh) ‎(chòuwèi)

• Czech: zápach (cs) m, smrad (cs) m
• Dutch: stank (nl) m
• Esperanto: fetoro (eo)
• Finnish: löyhkä (fi), lemu (fi)
• French: puanteur (fr) f
• Galician: tufo m
• German: Gestank (de) m
• Ilocano: danuor
• Japanese: 悪臭 (ja) ‎(あくしゅう, akushū), 臭い (ja) ‎(におい, nioi), 臭気 ‎(しゅうき, shūki), 臭味 ‎(しゅうみ, shūmi)
• Latin: paedor m
• Macedonian: смрдеа f ‎(sm'rdea), реа f ‎(réa), смрад m ‎(smrad)

• Maori: piro, pirau, haunga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stank m

  Nynorsk: stank m

• Persian: گند (fa) ‎(gand)
• Polish: fetor (pl) m, smród (pl) m
• Portuguese: fedor (pt)
• Russian: вонь (ru) f ‎(vonʹ), смрад (ru) m ‎(smrad), злово́ние (ru) n ‎(zlovónije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: смрад m, воњ m

  Roman: smrad (sh) m, vonj (sh) m

• Slovak: zápach m, smrad m
• Slovene: smrad (sl) m, vonj (sl) m
• Spanish: hedor (es) m, fetidez (es) f
• Swedish: stank (sv) c
• Tagalog: bansiw
• Turkish: koku (tr)
• Ukrainian: сморід m ‎(smoríd), вонь f ‎(vonʹ)
• Volapük: lusmel
• Walloon: flaireur (wa) f
• Yiddish: געסרחה f ‎(gesrokhe)

metaphorically, a foul quality

VerbEdit

stench ‎(third-person singular simple present stenches, present participle stenching, simple past and past participle stenched)

1. (obsolete) To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.

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2. To stanch.

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