patchouli

English

Alternative forms

• patchouly, pachouli

Etymology

From Tamil பச்சுளி (paccuḷi).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /pəˈt͡ʃuli/

Noun

patchouli (countable and uncountable, plural patchoulis)

1. Any of several East Indian plants in the genus Pogostemon, especially Pogostemon cablin, which yield a highly fragrant oil.
2. The oil or perfume made from these plants.
   • 1976, Peter Wood, Al Stewart, “Year of the Cat”, in Year of the Cat:

     Well she looks at you so coolly / And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea / She comes in incense and patchouli

Derived terms

• patchoulied
• patchoulol

Translations

any of several East Indian plants

Bulgarian: пачули (pačuli) Finnish: patsuli (fi) French: patchouli (fr) m Georgian: პაჩული (ṗačuli) German: (please verify) Indisches Patschuli n Hindi: पचौली (hi) m (pacaulī) Hungarian: pacsuli (hu) Ido: pachulio (io) Indonesian: nilam (id) Irish: paitsiúlaí m Polish: paczulka f, paczulka wonna f, brodziec paczulka m, paczula (pl) f Portuguese: patchuli m Romanian: paciuli (ro) f Russian: (please verify) пачу́ли (ru) (pačúli) Spanish: (please verify) pachulí (es) Swedish: patchouli c Tamil: பச்சுளி (paccuḷi) Turkish: paçuli Ukrainian: пачу́лі m pl (pačúli) Yiddish: פּאַטשולי pl (patshuli)

the oil or perfume made from these plants

Finnish: patsuli (fi) French: patchouli (fr) m Georgian: პაჩული (ṗačuli) German: (please verify) Indisches Patschuli n Hindi: पचौली (hi) m (pacaulī) Hungarian: pacsuli (hu) Ido: pachulio (io) Indonesian: nilam (id) Irish: paitsiúlaí m Japanese: パチョリ (pachori), パチュリー (pachurī), パチュリ (pachuri) Polish: paczula (pl) f Portuguese: patchuli m Romanian: paciuli (ro) f Russian: (please verify) пачу́ли (ru) (pačúli) Spanish: (please verify) pachulí (es) Ukrainian: пачу́лі m pl (pačúli) Yiddish: פּאַטשולי pl (patshuli)

Further reading

• patchouli on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat.ʃu.li/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

patchouli m (uncountable)

1. patchouli (plant)
2. patchouli (oil)
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […] ‎, Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     C'était pour lui qu'elle se limait les ongles avec un soin de ciseleur, et qu'il n'y avait jamais assez de cold-cream sur sa peau, ni de patchouli dans ses mouchoirs.

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Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

patchouli m (plural patchoulis)

1. alternative spelling of patchuli