smell in Malay
bau
UK/smɛl/
smell in Malay: bau, menghidu. In English, smell means a sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
Malay words for smell
- sensation
- bau
- sense with nose
- menghidu
English meaning of smell
- noun A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
- noun The sense that detects odours.
- noun A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
- verb To sense a smell or smells.
smell in a sentence
- I love the smell of fresh bread.
- I can smell fresh bread.
- Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off.
Synonyms of smell
smell in other languages
- smell in Hindi
- smell in Tamil
- smell in Marathi
- smell in Urdu
- smell in Bengali
- smell in Telugu
- smell in Malayalam
- smell in Kannada
- smell in Punjabi
- smell in Gujarati
- smell in Odia
- smell in Sanskrit
- smell in Sinhala
- smell in Assamese
- smell in Nepali
- smell in Pashto
- smell in Arabic
- smell in Indonesian
- smell in Persian
- smell in Thai
- smell in Vietnamese
- smell in Myanmar
Questions about smell in Malay
- What is the meaning of smell in Malay?
- Smell in Malay is bau, menghidu.
- Apakah maksud smell dalam bahasa Melayu?
- Smell: bau, menghidu.
- What does smell mean in English?
- Smell means a sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: smell (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malay words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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