parfum

Borrowed from French parfum.

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

parfum (uncountable)

1. (cosmetics) Fragrance; perfume

• Used in ingredient lists, etc.

• perfume

• parfuum

Borrowed from Middle French parfum, from parfumer.

• IPA^(key): /pɑrˈfʏm/, (nonstandard, uncommon) /ˈpɑr.fʏm/

• parfum

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• Hyphenation: par‧fum
• Rhymes: -ʏm

parfum n (plural parfums, diminutive parfumpje n)

1. A perfume, a luxury product providing a fragrant scent.

   Essence van rozen en diverse andere bloemen is zeer gegeerd voor natuurlijke parfums.

   Essence of roses and various others flowers is in high demand for natural perfumes.

   Synonyms: reukwerk, parfument

2. A perfume, a pleasant scent.

   De roos Friesia verspreidt een hemels parfum.

   The rose Friesia gives out a heavenly scent.

• geparfumeerd
• parfumeren

• parfumee
• parfumeerder
• parfumerie
• parfumeur

• Afrikaans: parfuum
• → Caribbean Hindustani: pampaiyá
• → Indonesian: parfum

From Middle French parfumer (“to scent”), borrowed from Old Occitan perfumar or another language around the Mediterranean coast, cf. Italian profumare, themselves from Latin per- (“through, thoroughly”) + fumāre (“to smoke”).

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.fœ̃/
• (with merger of un with in) IPA^(key): /paʁ.fɛ̃/

• audio

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• Rhymes: -œ̃

parfum m (plural parfums)

1. perfume (scented toiletry)
2. scent, desirable smell
3. flavour, aroma, taste (e.g., of ice cream)

   Le parfum des framboises est rarement naturel.

   Raspberry flavor is rarely natural

• au parfum
• eau de parfum
• esprit de parfum
• parfum de toilette
• parfumer
• parfumeur
• parfumerie

• → Danish: parfume
• → Dutch: parfum
• → German: Parfüm (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: parfum
• → Turkish: parfüm

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

From Dutch parfum, from Middle French parfum, from Latin per- (“through, thoroughly”) +‎ fumāre (“to smoke”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈparfʊm]
• Rhymes: -fʊm, -ʊm, -m
• Hyphenation: par‧fum

parfum (first-person possessive parfumku, second-person possessive parfummu, third-person possessive parfumnya)

1. perfume,
   1. a pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor
   2. a substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.

• “parfum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From French parfum, from Latin perfumāre.

parfum n (plural parfumuri)

1. perfume

• miros

• IPA^(key): /parfúːm/

parfȗm m inan

1. perfume (substance providing a pleasant smell)