incense

See also: incensé

English

Etymology

From Old French encens ‎(“sweet-smelling substance”) from Late Latin incensum ‎(“burnt incense”, literally “something burnt”), neuter past participle of incendō ‎(“I set on fire”). Compare incendiary.

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • enPR: ĭn'sĕns, IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsɛns/

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• Verb:
  • enPR: ĭnsĕns', IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɛns/

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Noun

Wikipedia

incense ‎(countable and uncountable, plural incenses)

1. A perfume used in the rites of various religions.

Derived terms

• incense boat
• incense cedar

Translations

A perfume often used in the rites of various religions

• Arabic: بَخْوُر (ar) m ‎(baḵwur)

  Egyptian Arabic: بخور m ‎(buḵwur)

• Armenian: խունկ (hy) ‎(xunk)
• Asturian: inciensu m
• Bulgarian: тамя́н (bg) m ‎(tamján)
• Catalan: encens m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香 (zh) ‎(xiāng)

• Czech: kadidlo (cs) n
• Danish: røgelse c, virak (da) c (dated)
• Dutch: wierook (nl) m
• Esperanto: incenso (eo)
• Estonian: viiruk
• Finnish: suitsuke (fi)
• French: encens (fr) m
• Galician: incenso (gl) m
• Georgian: საკმეველი ‎(saḳmeveli)
• German: Weihrauch (de) m
• Greek: λιβάνι (el) n ‎(liváni)
• Hawaiian: heona
• Hebrew: קטורת (he)
• Icelandic: reykelsi (is) n
• Ido: incenso (io)

• Italian: incenso (it) m, olibano m
• Japanese: 薫香 ‎(くんこう, kunkō)
• Norman: enchens m
• Korean: 향 (ko) ‎(hyang)
• Latin: tus, thȳmiāma
• Maori: whakakakara
• Norwegian: virak m, røkelse m

  Nynorsk: virak m, røykjelse m, røykelse m

• Polish: kadzidło (pl) n
• Portuguese: incenso (pt) m
• Romanian: tămâie (ro) f
• Russian: ла́дан (ru) m ‎(ládan), фимиа́м (ru) m ‎(fimiám), кади́ло (ru) n ‎(kadílo) (incense burner)
• Sanskrit: धूपं ‎(dhūpaṁ)
• Sardinian: timagna f, timanza f, timonza f
• Serbo-Croatian: тамјан m, tamjan (sh) m
• Slovene: kadilo (sl) n
• Spanish: incienso (es) m, sahumerio (es) m, sahumo m
• Swahili: ubani (sw)
• Swedish: rökelse (sv) c (virak (sv) c)
• Tagalog: dupa
• Thai: กำยาน, ธูป (th) ‎(tûup)
• Turkish: tütsü (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

incense ‎(third-person singular simple present incenses, present participle incensing, simple past and past participle incensed)

1. (transitive) To anger or infuriate.

   I think it would incense him to learn the truth.

2. (archaic) To incite, stimulate.
3. (transitive) To offer incense to.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

4. (transitive) To perfume with, or as with, incense.
   • Marston

     Incensed with wanton sweetes.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Neither, for the future, shall any man or woman, self-styled noble, be incensed, — foolishly fumigated with incense, in Church; as the wont has been.

5. (obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
   • Chapman

     Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labour to incense / Thy glorious heap of funeral.

Translations

anger, infuriate

• Bulgarian: вбеся́вам (bg) ‎(vbesjávam), разяря́вам (bg) ‎(razjarjávam)
• Dutch: vertoornen
• Finnish: raivostuttaa (fi)

• Russian: серди́ть (ru) impf ‎(serdítʹ), рассерди́ть (ru) pf ‎(rasserdítʹ), беси́ть (ru) impf ‎(besítʹ), взбеси́ть (ru) pf ‎(vzbesítʹ), разъяря́ть (ru) impf ‎(razʺjarjátʹ), разъяри́ть (ru) pf ‎(razʺjarítʹ), разгне́вать (ru) pf ‎(razgnévatʹ), разозли́ть (ru) pf ‎(razozlítʹ)
• Swahili: ubani (sw)

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Latin

Participle

incense

1. vocative masculine singular of incensus

References

• incense in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• INCENSE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• incense in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• incense in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia^[1]
• incense in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Spanish

Verb

incense

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of incensar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of incensar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of incensar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of incensar.