body odour

English

Alternative forms

• body odor

Pronunciation

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Noun

body odour (countable and uncountable, plural body odours)

1. (medicine, dermatology) The unpleasant smell produced by the human body, primarily resulting from the metabolic activity of skin bacteria on sweat secretions.

   Synonyms: BO (initialism), bromidrosis, osmidrosis, ozochrotia, fetid sweat

Translations

unpleasant smell on a person's body

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: رائحَة الجسم f
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: ansod (bcl) (of armpits)

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 體臭 / 体臭 (tai² cau³), 狐臭 (wu⁴ cau³)

  Mandarin: 體臭 / 体臭 (zh) (tǐchòu), 狐臭 (zh) (húchòu), 狐臊 (zh) (húsāo), 腋臭 (zh) (yèchòu)

• Czech: tělesný pach m
• Danish: kropslugt c
• Dutch: lichaamsgeur (nl), lijfgeur (nl)
• Esperanto: korpodoro
• Finnish: hienhaju
• French: odeur corporelle f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Körpergeruch (de) m
• Greek: ιδρωτίλα (el) f (idrotíla)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: líkamslykt f, svitalykt f
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: bau badan
• Irish: boladh coirp m
• Italian: cattivo odore del corpo m
• Japanese: 腋臭 (ja) (わきが, wakiga), 体臭 (ja) (たいしゅう, taishū)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ក្លិនខ្លួន (klənkhluən)
• Korean: 암내 (amnae), 땀내 (ko) (ttamnae), 액취증 (aekchwijeung)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: телесна миризба f (telesna mirizba)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Māori: mōrūruru, moharuru
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: kʼǫ́ǫ́zh
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: odor corporal m, cecê (pt) m
• Russian: за́пах те́ла m (zápax téla)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: bromhidrosis (es) f, sobaquina (es) f (colloquial, of armpits)
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: kroppsodör c, kroppslukt c
• Tagalog: anghit, (of armpits)
• Tamil: உடம்பு நாற்றம் (uṭampu nāṟṟam)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: กลิ่นตัว (th) (glìn-dtuua)
• Turkish: ter kokusu, vücut kokusu
• Ukrainian: за́пах ті́ла m (zápax tíla)
• Vietnamese: mùi cơ thể
• Welsh: gwynt chwys m, oglau chwys m
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• body odour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia