olfaction

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French olfaction / olefaction, from Latin olfactus, perfect passive participle of olfaciō (“to smell (transitive)”) + -tion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊlˈfækʃən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

olfaction (plural olfactions)

1. The sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 105:

     ‘I think the single most extraordinary aspect of olfaction is that we all smell the world differently,’ Beauchamp told me.

Derived terms

• vomerolfaction

Related terms

• olfactory

Translations

the sense of smell

Arabic: شَمّ m (šamm) Armenian: հոտառություն (hy) (hotaṙutʻyun) Basque: usaimen (eu) Belarusian: нюх m (njux) Bulgarian: обоня́ние (bg) n (obonjánie), нюх (bg) m (njuh) Catalan: olfacte (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 嗅覺 / 嗅觉 (cau3 gok3) Hokkien: 嗅覺 / 嗅觉 (hiù-kak) Mandarin: 嗅覺 / 嗅觉 (zh) (xiùjué) Czech: čich (cs) m Dutch: reukzin (nl) m Esperanto: flarsenso Finnish: hajuaisti (fi), haistaminen (fi), haju (fi) French: olfaction (fr) f, odorat (fr) m Galician: olfacto (gl) m, olfate m, álido m, ulido m, cheiro (gl) m, ventas (gl) f German: Geruchssinn (de) m, Geruch (de) n Greek: όσφρησις f (ósfrisis) Hindi: गंधानुभूति m (gandhānubhūti) Hungarian: szaglás (hu) Italian: olfatto (it) m, odorato (it) m Japanese: 嗅覚 (ja) (きゅうかく, kyūkaku) Korean: 후각 (ko) (hugak) Latin: olfactus m Latvian: oža f Lithuanian: uoslė f Macedonian: мирис (mk) m (miris), сетило за мирис n (setilo za miris) Norwegian: Bokmål: luktesans m Persian: بویایی (fa) Polish: węch (pl) m Portuguese: olfato (pt) m, faro (pt) m Romanian: miros (ro) n Russian: обоня́ние (ru) n (obonjánije), нюх (ru) m (njux) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: њу̑х m Roman: njȗh (sh) m Slovak: čuch (sk) m Slovene: voh m Spanish: olfato (es) m Swedish: luktsinne (sv), lukt (sv) Tajik: шомма (šomma) Turkish: koku alma duyusu (tr), koku duyusu, olfaksiyon Ukrainian: нюх m (njux) Vietnamese: khứu giác (vi) Walloon: oda (wa)

Further reading

• olfaction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin olfactus +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔl.fak.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

olfaction f (plural olfactions)

1. olfaction

   Synonym: odorat

Further reading

• “olfaction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.