incense stick

English

Noun

incense stick (plural incense sticks)

1. A thin stick covered with incense that burns slowly and gives off fragrant smoke when set alight.
   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎^[1], page 300:

     For instance, Hawkins, Lewis, Hankin and Sengupta all cover the word agarbatti, an incense stick or joss stick, but there is no way of knowing when this term was first used in Indian English, nor whether it is now current or obsolete.

Translations

A thin stick covered in incense

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 線香／线香 (zh) (xiànxiāng)

• German: Räucherstäbchen (de) n
• Polish: kadzidełko (pl) n