parfum

Borrowed from French parfum. Doublet of perfume.

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

parfum (usually uncountable, plural parfums)

1. (cosmetics) Fragrance; perfume.
   • 1926, The Magazine of The Women’s City Club of Detroit, page 42:

     Did you ever dream of a Beauty Shop De Luxe? A charming place of sweet parfums, crystal mirrors, flowered chintzes and soft pastel tints—a lovely salon of beauty, where fresh colors and smart furniture make beauty rites an occasion of pleasure and inspiration?

   • 1930, The New Yorker, volume 6, page 111:

     For Christmas, give a jewel-like flacon of this most exclusive and personal of parfums.

   • 1944 April, Jewelers’ Circular-Keystone, page 232:

     WANTED 10 top flight salesmen in different sections to introduce fine line of parfums made expressly to sell in jewelry stores, also lighters and other exclusive imports.

2. (perfumery) A solvent containing around 15% to 40% aromatic compounds.

• Used in ingredient lists, etc.

• parfumier
• eau de parfum
• parfum de toilette

• parfuum

Borrowed from Middle French parfum, from parfumer.

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

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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

   Synonyms: reukwerk, parfument

   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.

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/

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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

• → 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 (plural parfum-parfum)

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

   Synonym: minyak wangi (Standard Malay)

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

Borrowed from French parfum, from Latin perfumāre.

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parfum n (plural parfumuri)

1. perfume

• miros

• IPA^(key): /parfúːm/

parfȗm m inan

1. perfume (substance providing a pleasant smell)

• “parfum”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “parfum”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references