English
Censer
Etymology
From Middle English , from Anglo-Norman censier , from Old French encensier , from encens ( “ incense ” )
Pronunciation
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Homophones : censor , sensor
Noun
censer (plural censers )
An ornamental container for burning incense , especially during religious ceremonies.
A person who censes , a person who perfumes with incense
Synonyms
Translations
religious ornamental container for burning incense
Arabic: مَبْخَرَة f ( mabḵara )
Egyptian Arabic: مبخرة f ( mabḵara )
Armenian: բուրվառ (hy) ( burvaṙ )
Bulgarian: кади́лница f ( kadílnica )
Catalan: encenser m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 香爐 / 香炉 (zh) ( xiānglú ) , 香炉 (zh) ( xiānglú )
Czech: kadidelnice (cs) f
Finnish: suitsutusastia , kadilo
French: encensoir (fr) m
Galician: incensario (gl) m , botafumeiro (gl) , turíbulo (gl) m
Georgian: საცეცხლური ( sacecxluri )
German: Duftrauchbrenner m , Weihrauchschwenker m
Greek: θυμιατό (el) n ( thymiató )
Ancient: θυμιατήριον n ( thumiatḗrion ) , θυίσκη f ( thuískē )
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Gujarati: ધૂપિયું ( dhūpiyũ )
Italian: turibolo (it) , incensiere
Japanese: 香炉 ( こうろ, kōro )
Korean: 향로 ( hyangno )
Latin: tūribulum n
Maori: oko tahu kakara
Polish: kadzidło (pl) n
Portuguese: turíbulo (pt) , incensário (pt)
Russian: кади́ло (ru) n ( kadílo ) , кури́льница (ru) f ( kurílʹnica ) , кади́льница (ru) f ( kadílʹnica )
Slovene: kadílnica f
Spanish: incensario (es) m , botafumeiro m , turíbulo (es) m , pebetero (es) m , turífero (es) m
Tagalog: dupaan
Ukrainian: кади́ло (uk) n ( kadýlo ) , кади́льниця f ( kadýlʹnycja )
Vietnamese: lư hương (vi)
Yup'ik: katilaq
See also
Further reading
References
“censer”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin , 2000 , →ISBN .
“censer ”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged , Dictionary.com, LLC , 1995–present.
"censer " in WordNet 2.0 , Princeton University, 2003.
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