censer

English

Censer

Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman censier, from encensier, from encens (“incense”)

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.sə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.sɚ/
Homophones: censor, sensor

Noun

censer (plural censers)

An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense

Synonyms

(container): thurible

Translations

religious ornamental container for burning incense

Arabic: مَبْخَرَة‎ f (mabḵara)
Egyptian Arabic: مبخرة‎ f (mabḵara)
Armenian: բուրվառ (hy) (burvaṙ)
Bulgarian: кади́лница f (kadílnica)
Catalan: encenser m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 香爐 (zh), 香炉 (zh) (xiānglú)
Czech: kadidelnice (cs) f
Finnish: suitsutusastia, kadilo
French: encensoir (fr) m
Galician: incensario (gl) m, botafumeiro (gl), turíbulo (gl) m
Georgian: საცეცხლური (sacecxluri)
German: Duftrauchbrenner m, Weihrauchschwenker m
Greek: θυμιατό (el) n (thymiató)
Ancient: θυμιατήριον n (thumiatḗrion), θυίσκη f (thuískē)

Gujarati: ધૂપિયું (dhūpiyũ)
Italian: turibolo (it), incensiere
Japanese: 香炉 (こうろ, kōro)
Korean: 향로 (hyangno)
Latin: tūribulum n
Maori: oko tahu kakara
Polish: kadzidło (pl) n
Portuguese: turíbulo (pt), incensário (pt)
Russian: кади́ло (ru) n (kadílo), кури́льница (ru) f (kurílʹnica), кади́льница (ru) f (kadílʹnica)
Slovene: kadílnica f
Spanish: incensario (es) m, botafumeiro m, turíbulo (es) m, pebetero (es) m, turífero (es) m
Tagalog: dupaan
Ukrainian: кади́ло (uk) n (kadýlo), кади́льниця f (kadýlʹnycja)
Vietnamese: lư hương (vi)
Yup'ik: katilaq

See also

incense boat

Further reading

censer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

“censer” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
“censer” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
"censer" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

Screen, scener, scerne, screen, secern

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