Incense

//ˈɪnsɛns//

Synonyms for "incense" (323 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (65)

Strong matches (97)

confirmation drink offering embalm embitter enkindle enough enrage ex voto offering exasperate excite eyewash fair words fan fan the fire fan the flame fawning feed the fire ferment fire flame

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Verb(36 words)

conflagrate cross draw drive egg on embitter encourage engender envenom evoke exasperate excite fire fire up foment gall get get one's back up get someone's dander up get someone's goat

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get someone's irish up get to goad goose grame grill honk off impel incite induce instigate invoke kindle lash light light a fire under

Related words (161)

light up lignaloes linaloa litany love feast lustration mactation mad madden miff move muskiness nettle nosegay oblation odor odorize offering offertory oil

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Verb(57 words)

light up madden make angry make someone see red make someone's blood boil motivate motive move musk nark obligate oblige odorize offend outrage piss off promote prompt push put out

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Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

More general

10 entries

anger aroma chemical compound compound fragrance odorize odourise perfume scent

Synonyms

2 entries

cense infuriate

Related terms

1 entries

frankincense

at location

1 entries

synagogue

derived

15 entries

incensation incense boat incense burner incense cedar incense stick incense tree incenseless incensement incenser incensive incensole incensor incensory incensy reincense

etymologically related_to

1 entries

incendiary

is a

2 entries

aroma compound

related to

25 entries

adulation anger burn burning burning candle burning smell burning stick candle good good smell hippie hippie house hippies hippies burn homage house

Showing 16 of 25 words.

Translations

169 translations across 95 languages.

Acehnese

1 entries

keumeunyan noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Albanian

2 entries

kem noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
temjan noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

θυμίαμα noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Arabic

4 entries

بخور noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
بخور noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
بَخُور noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
بُخُور noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Armenian

2 entries

խունկ noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
ծխանելիք noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Asturian

1 entries

inciensu noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

buxur noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Belarusian

3 entries

кадзі́ла noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
ла́дан noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
фімія́м noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Bengali

1 entries

ধূপ noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Bulgarian

3 entries

тамя́н noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
вбеся́вам verb (anger, infuriate)
разяря́вам verb (anger, infuriate)

Burmese

1 entries

အမွှေး noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Catalan

1 entries

encens noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

香 noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

香 noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Church Slavic

3 entries

кадило noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
темьꙗнъ noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
ѳѵмїамъ noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Corsican

2 entries

encensu noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
incensu noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Czech

1 entries

kadidlo noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Danish

2 entries

røgelse noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
virak noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Dutch

3 entries

wierook noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
de woede opwekken van verb (anger, infuriate)
vertoornen verb (anger, infuriate)

Dzongkha

1 entries

སྤོས noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Egyptian

1 entries

nTr-sn-T:r:N33A noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Esperanto

1 entries

incenso noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Estonian

1 entries

viiruk noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Faroese

1 entries

roykilsi noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Finnish

2 entries

suitsuke noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
raivostuttaa verb (anger, infuriate)

French

1 entries

encens noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Friulian

1 entries

incens noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Galician

1 entries

incenso noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Georgian

1 entries

საკმეველი noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

German

4 entries

Räuchwerk noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
Weihrauch noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
aufbringen verb (anger, infuriate)
empören verb (anger, infuriate)

Greek

2 entries

λιβάνι noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
εξοργίζω verb (anger, infuriate)

Hawaiian

1 entries

heona noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Hebrew

2 entries

קְטֹרֶת noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
קטורת noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Hindi

1 entries

अगरबत्ती noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Hungarian

1 entries

tömjén noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Icelandic

1 entries

reykelsi noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Ido

1 entries

incenso noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Indonesian

2 entries

dupa noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
kemenyan noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Irish

1 entries

túis noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Italian

2 entries

incenso noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
olibano noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Japanese

2 entries

薫香 noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
香 noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Kazakh

1 entries

ладан noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Khmer

1 entries

ធូប noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Korean

1 entries

향 noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Lao

2 entries

ກຳຍານ noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
ທູບ noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Latin

3 entries

suffīmen noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
thūs noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
thȳmiāma noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Latvian

1 entries

vīraks noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Ligurian

1 entries

incénso noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Lithuanian

1 entries

smilkalai noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Lombard

1 entries

incens noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Macedonian

2 entries

благомирис noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
темјан noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Malay

3 entries

dupa noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
kemenyan noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
setanggi noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Maltese

2 entries

bħur noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
inċens noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Mongolian

2 entries

сан noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
ᠰᠠᠩ noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Māori

1 entries

whakakakara noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Norman

1 entries

enchens noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Norwegian Bokmål

3 entries

røkelse noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
røykelse noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
virak noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

røykjelse noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
virak noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Old East Slavic

3 entries

кадило noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
ладанъ noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
темьанъ noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Old English

1 entries

rēcels noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Oromo

1 entries

qayya noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

بخور noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
كونلك noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Pali

1 entries

dhūpa noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Persian

2 entries

بخور noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
عود noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Piedmontese

1 entries

incens noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Plautdietsch

2 entries

Ruakstoff noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
Weiruak noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Pohnpeian

2 entries

insens noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
warpwohmwahu noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Polish

1 entries

kadzidło noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Portuguese

1 entries

incenso noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Romagnol

2 entries

incéns noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
inzéns noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Romanian

1 entries

tămâie noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Russian

4 entries

кади́ло noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
ла́дан noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
темья́н noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
фимиа́м noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Sanskrit

1 entries

धूप noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Sardinian

3 entries

timagna noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
timanza noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
timonza noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

tàmjan noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
та̀мјан noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Slovak

1 entries

kadidlo noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Slovene

1 entries

kadilo noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Spanish

4 entries

incienso noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
sahumerio noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
sahúmo noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
enchilar verb (anger, infuriate)

Swahili

1 entries

ubani noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Swedish

1 entries

rökelse (virak c) noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Tagalog

3 entries

astangi noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
dupa noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
insenso noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Tajik

1 entries

бухур noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Tamil

1 entries

ஊதுபத்தி noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Ternate

1 entries

dupa noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Thai

2 entries

กำยาน noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
ธูป noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Tibetan

1 entries

སྤོས noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Turkish

1 entries

tütsü noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Ukrainian

4 entries

кади́ло noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
ку́риво noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
ла́дан noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
фіміа́м noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Urdu

1 entries

بخور noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Uzbek

1 entries

ladan noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Vietnamese

2 entries

hương noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
nhang noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Welsh

2 entries

arogldarth noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)
thus noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Wolof

1 entries

cuuraay noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Yiddish

1 entries

קטורת noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Yucatec Maya

1 entries

poom noun (material burnt for fragrant smoke)

Sample sentences

19 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I don't usually burn incense at home.

Source: tatoeba (2315338)

She likes to burn incense while practising yoga.

Source: tatoeba (2334903)

The priest reprimanded the altar boy for swinging the incense around like a lasso.

Source: tatoeba (5636062)

Then back, rejoicing, through the liquid air / to Paphos and her home she flies away, / where, steaming with Sabaean incense rare, / an hundred altars breathe with garlands fresh and fair.

Source: tatoeba (6789113)

Showing 4 of 19 available sentences.

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