doft

See also: Doft

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch docht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔft/

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• Hyphenation: doft
• Rhymes: -ɔft

Noun

doft f (plural doften, diminutive doftje n)

1. bench for rowers

   Synonym: roeibank

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse dupt, itself related to the root of daufr.

Pronunciation

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Noun

doft c

1. (pleasant) smell; scent, odor, fragrance
   • 1990, Sven-Ingvars, David Alexandre Winter, “Sommar och sol [Summer and Sun]”‎^[1]:

     Sommar, sommar och sol. Havet och vinden, och doft av kaprifol. Sommar, sommar och sol. En himmel så blå som viol.

     Summer, summer and sun. The sea and the wind, and scent of honeysuckle. Summer, summer and sun. A sky as blue as violet [flower].

Declension

Declension of doft

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	doft	dofts
	definite	doften	doftens
plural	indefinite	dofter	dofters
	definite	dofterna	dofternas

Derived terms

• doftrik
• väldoftande

Related terms

• dofta

See also

• arom (“aroma”)
• lukt (“smell”)
• odör (“(foul) odor”)
• stank (“stench”)

References

• “doft”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “doft”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “doft”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Yola

Alternative forms

• daffed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔft/, /daft/

Verb

doft

1. simple past of doff

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36