frankincense

English

Etymology

From Old French franc encens (“noble incense”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæŋkənˌsɛns/

Noun

frankincense (countable and uncountable, plural frankincenses)

1. A type of incense obtained from the Boswellia thurifera tree.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:

     The glories of Mary held his soul captive : spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolising the preciousness of God's gifts to her soul, rich garments, symbolising her royal lineage, her emblems, the lateflowering plant and lateblossoming tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men.

Synonyms

• olibanum

Translations

incense

• Arabic: لُبَان (ar) m (lubān)
• Aramaic:

  Christian Palestinian Aramaic: ܠܒܘܢܐ, ܠܝܒܘܢܐ, ܠܒܢܐ

  Imperial Aramaic: 𐡋𐡁𐡅𐡍𐡕𐡀 f (lbwntʾ)

  Jewish Literary Aramaic: לְבוּנתָּא f (ləḇūntā)

  Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: לבונתה f

  Classical Syriac: ܠܒܘܢܬܐ f (ləḇūntā)

• Armenian: խունկ (hy) (xunk), խեժ (hy) (xež), կնդրուկ (hy) (kndruk)

  Old Armenian: կնդրուկ (kndruk)

• Azerbaijani: buxur
• Bengali: লোবান (lōban)
• Bulgarian: тамян (bg) (tamjan)
• Burmese: လောဗန် (lau:ban)
• Catalan: encens (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳香 (zh) (rǔxiāng)

• Classical Nahuatl: tlenemāctli
• Coptic: ⲗⲓⲃⲁⲛⲟⲩ (libanou), ⲗⲓⲃⲁⲛⲟⲥ (libanos), ⲁⲗⲃⲟⲩⲛⲟⲩⲧ (albounout) (Old Coptic)
• Czech: kadidlo (cs) n
• Danish: røgelse
• Demotic: ꜣlbwnṱ
• Dhivehi: ވައިގުގޫ (vaigugū)
• Dutch: olibanum n
• Faroese: roykilsi n
• Finnish: olibaanihartsi (fi)
• French: encens (fr) m
• Georgian: საკმეველი (saḳmeveli)
• German: Weihrauch (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: λίβανος m or f (líbanos), λιβανωτός m (libanōtós)

• Gujarati: લોબાન (lobān)
• Hebrew: לבונה (he) (l'vonah)
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• Hindi: लोबान (hi) m (lobān), लोहबान (hi) (lohbān), कुन्दुर (hi) m (kundur), कुंदारु m (kundāru), सौराष्ट्री (hi) f (saurāṣṭrī), सुगन्ध (hi) f (sugandh)
• Hungarian: tömjén (hu)
• Icelandic: reykelsi (is) n
• Irish: túis f
• Italian: franchincenso m, olibano m
• Japanese: 乳香 (ja) (にゅうこう, nyūkō)
• Korean: 유향 (yuhyang)
• Lao: ກຳຍານ (kam nyān)
• Malay: kemenyan
• Malayalam: സാമ്പ്രാണി (ml) (sāmprāṇi)
• Maltese: frankinċens
• Maori: parakihe
• Persian: کندر (fa) (kondor)
• Portuguese: olíbano m
• Punic: 𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤕 f (lḇūnaṯ)
• Romanian: tămâie (ro)
• Romansch: intschains
• Russian: ла́дан (ru) m (ládan)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: та̀мјан m

  Roman: tàmjan (sh) m

• Sanskrit: कुन्दुर (sa) m (kundura), सौराष्ट्री (sa) f (saurāṣṭrī), सुगन्ध (sa) f (sugandha), कुन्दुरुक m (kunduruk)
• Shan: လေႃႇပၢၼ်ႇ (làu pàan)
• Somali: uunsi
• Spanish: olíbano m, franquincienso m, francoincienso m
• Swahili: uvumba (sw)
• Swedish: rökelse (sv)
• Tagalog: kamanyang
• Tamil: சாம்பிராணி (ta) (cāmpirāṇi)
• Thai: กำยาน (th) (gam-yaan)
• Urdu: لوبان m (lobān)
• Vietnamese: nhũ hương (vi)
• Welsh: thus m