Noun: parfum
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | parfum |
| Plural m | parfums |
Sample Sentences
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Le parfum des framboises est rarement naturel. (Raspberry flavor is rarely natural)
Nouns inflected like parfum
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French parfum, from 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”). See: Italian Nouns '
profumare', Latin Nouns '
per'.
Verbs referencing "parfum"
English Nouns
parfum, Romanian Nouns
parfum, German Nouns
Parfüm, Polish Nouns
perfumy, Hungarian Nouns
parfüm, Danish Nouns
parfume, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
parfyme, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
parfyme, Swedish Nouns
parfym, Bulgarian Nouns
парфюм, Russian Nouns
парфюм, Ukrainian Nouns
парфум.
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