frankincense

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French franc encens (“noble incense”).

Noun

frankincense (countable and uncountable, plural frankincenses)

1. A type of incense obtained from the 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

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

  Old Armenian: կնդրուկ (kndruk)

• Bengali: লোবান (lōban)
• Bulgarian: тамян (bg) (tamjan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳香 (zh) (rǔxiāng)

• Classical Nahuatl: tlenemāctli
• Czech: kadidlo (cs) n
• Danish: røgelse
• 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 Greek: λιβανωτός m (libanōtós)

• Gujarati: લોબાન (lobān)
• Hebrew: לבונה (l'vonah)
• Hindi: लोबान (hi) m (lobān), लोहबान (hi) (lohbān)
• Hungarian: tömjén (hu)
• Icelandic: reykelsi (is) n
• Irish: túis f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: franchincenso m, olibano m
• Japanese: 乳香 (にゅうこう, nyūkō)
• Malay: kemenyan
• Malayalam: സാമ്പ്രാണി (ml) (sāmprāṇi)
• Maltese: frankinċens
• Maori: parakihe
• Persian: کندر (fa) (kondor)
• Portuguese: olíbano m
• Romanian: tămâie (ro)
• Romansch: intschains
• Russian: ла́дан (ru) m (ládan)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: та̀мјан m

  Roman: tàmjan (sh) m

• Somali: uunsi
• Spanish: olíbano m, franquincienso m, francoincienso m
• Swahili: uvumba (sw)
• Swedish: rökelse (sv)
• Tagalog: kamanyang
• Tamil: சாம்பிராணி (ta) (cāmpirāṇi)
• Thai: กำยาน (gam-yaan)
• Urdu: لوبان m (lobān)
• Welsh: thus m