deodorant

See also: Deodorant and déodorant

English

Alternative forms

• deodourant (rare)

Etymology

From Latin de- + odorans, present participle of odorare (“to smell”), from odor (“a smell”); see odor. By surface analysis, de- +‎ odor +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diˈəʊdəɹənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /diˈoʊdəɹənt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

deodorant (plural deodorants)

1. Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.
   • 1987, Amy C Lee Wong, Factors affecting growth of Staphylococcus aureus and production of toxic shock syndrome-1:

     The only apparent difference between Playtex deodorant and nondeodorant tampons was the deodorant, yet the deodorant tampons did not stimulate the production of TSST-1.

   1. An odor-controlling substance applied to the underarm to counteract odor from perspiration.
      • 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

        Banned are newspapers and books, noncotton clothing, after-shave lotions and deodorants, all nonorganic or processed foods […] .

Derived terms

• nondeodorant
• stick deodorant
• success is a great deodorant
• winning is a great deodorant

 

Related terms

• odor
• odorous

Translations

any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor

• Asturian: desodorante m
• Bulgarian: дезодора́нт m (dezodoránt)
• Finnish: hajunpoistoaine, hajunpoistaja
• Galician: desodorizante (gl) m
• Greek: αποσμητικό (el) n (aposmitikó)
• Indonesian: deodoran (id)
• Italian: deodorante (it) m
• Macedonian: дезодора́нс m (dezodoráns)
• Norman: d'sodorant m
• Polish: dezodorant (pl) m
• Portuguese: desodorante (pt)
• Russian: дезодора́нт (ru) m (dezodoránt)

odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm

• Albanian: deodorant m
• Arabic: مُزِيل اَلْعَرَق m (muzīl al-ʕaraq), مُزِيل اَلرَّائِحَة m (muzīl ar-rāʔiḥa)

  Hijazi Arabic: مُزِيل عَرَق m (muzīl ʕarag)

• Armenian: հոտազերծիչ (hy) (hotazercičʻ)
• Asturian: desodorante m
• Azerbaijani: dezodorant
• Belarusian: дэзадара́нт m (dezadaránt)
• Bulgarian: дезодора́нт m (dezodoránt)
• Catalan: desodorant m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體香劑／体香剂 (zh) (tǐxiāngjì), 除臭劑／除臭剂 (zh) (chúchòujì), 防臭劑／防臭剂 (zh) (fángchòujì), 脫臭劑／脱臭剂 (tuōchòujì)

• Czech: deodorant (cs) m
• Danish: deodorant (da) c
• Dutch: deodorant (nl), deo (nl) m
• Esperanto: senodorigilo
• Estonian: desodorant
• Faroese: deodorantur m
• Finnish: deodorantti (fi), dödö (fi)
• French: déodorant (fr) m
• Galician: desodorizante (gl) m
• Georgian: დეზოდორანტი (dezodoranṭi)
• German: Deodorant (de) n, Deo (de) n
• Greek: αποσμητικό (el) n (aposmitikó)
• Greenlandic: unersunniiaat
• Hebrew: דֶּאוֹדוֹרַנְט (he) m (deodoránt'), אַל־רֵיחַ m (al-ré'akh)
• Hindi: दुर्गन्धहर (durgandhahar), गंधहर (hi) (gandhhar), गन्धहर (hi) (gandhahar)
• Hungarian: dezodor (hu)
• Icelandic: svitalyktareyðir (is) m
• Indonesian: deodoran (id)
• Italian: deodorante (it) m
• Japanese: デオドラント (ja) (deodoranto)
• Kazakh: дезодорант (dezodorant)
• Khmer: ថ្នាំបំបាត់ក្លិន (thnambɑmbatklən)
• Korean: 탈취제(脫臭劑) (talchwije), 데오도란트 (de'odoranteu)
• Kyrgyz: дезодорант (ky) (dezodorant)
• Lao: ຢາດັບກິ່ນ (yā dap kin)
• Latvian: dezodorants m
• Lithuanian: dezodorantas m
• Macedonian: дезодора́нс m (dezodoráns)
• Malay: deodoran (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дезодорант (dezodorant), үнэр дарагч (üner daragč)

• Norman: d'sodorant m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: deodorant m

• Persian: دئودورانت (de'odorânt), بو زدا (bu zodâ)
• Polish: dezodorant (pl) m
• Portuguese: desodorante (pt) m
• Romanian: deodorant (ro) n
• Romansch: deodorant m
• Russian: дезодора́нт (ru) m (dezodoránt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дезодоранс m

  Roman: dezodorans (sh) m

• Slovak: deodorant (sk) m
• Slovene: deodorant m
• Spanish: desodorante (es) m
• Swahili: kuondoa harufu
• Swedish: deodorant (sv)
• Tajik: дезодорант (dezodorant)
• Thai: ยาดับกลิ่น (yaa-dàp-glìn)
• Tibetan: དྲི་ངན་སངས་སྨན (dri ngan sangs sman)
• Turkish: deodorant (tr)
• Ukrainian: дезодора́нт m (dezodoránt)
• Uzbek: dezodorant
• Vietnamese: bay mùi, chất khử mùi
• Welsh: diaroglydd m
• Yiddish: דעאָדאָראַנט m (deodorant)

Adjective

deodorant (not comparable)

1. acting or including an agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.
   • 1987, Amy C Lee Wong, Factors affecting growth of Staphylococcus aureus and production of toxic shock syndrome-1:

     The only apparent difference between Playtex deodorant and nondeodorant tampons was the deodorant, yet the deodorant tampons did not stimulate the production of TSST-1.

Translations

acting to control odor

• Bulgarian: дезодорант (dezodorant)
• German: geruchtilgend (de)
• Greek: αποσμητικός (el) m (aposmitikós)
• Italian: deodorante (it)
• Norman: d'sodothant

See also

• antiperspirant

References

• “deodorant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “deodorant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Czech

Noun

deodorant m inan

1. deodorant (odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm)

Declension

Declension of deodorant (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	deodorant	deodoranty
genitive	deodorantu	deodorantů
dative	deodorantu	deodorantům
accusative	deodorant	deodoranty
vocative	deodorante	deodoranty
locative	deodorantu	deodorantech
instrumental	deodorantem	deodoranty

Danish

Noun

deodorant c (singular definite deodoranten, plural indefinite deodoranter)

1. deodorant

Declension

Declension of deodorant

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	deodorant	deodoranten	deodoranter	deodoranterne
genitive	deodorants	deodorantens	deodoranters	deodoranternes

Further reading

• “deodorant” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Alternative forms

• deodorans (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from English deodorant or French déodorant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdeː.oː.doːˈrɑnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: de‧odo‧rant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

deodorant m or n (plural deodoranten)

1. deodorant

Derived terms

• deo
• deodorantbus

Indonesian

Noun

déodorant

1. Nonstandard form of deodoran.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French déodorant.

Noun

deodorant n (plural deodorante)

1. deodorant

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	deodorant	deodorantul		deodorante	deodorantele
genitive-dative	deodorant	deodorantului		deodorante	deodorantelor
vocative	deodorantule			deodorantelor

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English deodorant.

Noun

deodorant c

1. deodorant

   Synonym: (colloquial) deo

Declension

Declension of deodorant

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	deodorant	deodorants
	definite	deodoranten	deodorantens
plural	indefinite	deodoranter	deodoranters
	definite	deodoranterna	deodoranternas

Derived terms

• deodorantstift (“deodorant stick”)

See also

• roll-on

References

• deodorant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• deodorant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)