patchouli

English

Alternative forms

• patchouly, pachouli

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Dravidian *pac-

Tamil பச்சை (paccai)

Proto-Dravidian *el

Proto-Dravidian *ay

Proto-South Dravidian *elay

Old Tamil 𑀇𑀮𑁃 (ilai)

Tamil இலை (ilai)

Tamil பச்சிலை (paccilai)

Tamil பச்சுளி (paccuḷi)bor.

English patchouli

Borrowed from Tamil பச்சுளி (paccuḷi).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /pəˈt͡ʃuli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

patchouli (countable and uncountable, plural patchoulis)

1. Any of several East Indian plants in the genus Pogostemon, especially Pogostemon cablin, which yield a highly fragrant oil.
2. The oil or perfume made from these plants.
   • 1976, Peter Wood, Al Stewart, “Year of the Cat”, in Year of the Cat:

     Well she looks at you so coolly / And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea / She comes in incense and patchouli

Derived terms

• patchoulied
• patchoulol

Translations

any of several East Indian plants

• Bulgarian: пачули (pačuli)
• Finnish: patsuli (fi)
• French: patchouli (fr) m
• Georgian: პაჩული (ṗačuli)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Indisches Patschuli n
• Hindi: पचौली (hi) m (pacaulī)
• Hungarian: pacsuli (hu)
• Ido: pachulio (io)
• Indonesian: nilam (id)
• Irish: paitsiúlaí m
• Kazakh: пачули (pačuwlıy)
• Polish: paczulka f, paczulka wonna f, brodziec paczulka m, paczula (pl) f
• Portuguese: patchuli m
• Romanian: paciuli (ro) f
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} пачу́ли (ru) (pačúli)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pachulí (es)
• Swedish: patchouli c
• Tamil: பச்சுளி (paccuḷi)
• Turkish: paçuli
• Ukrainian: пачу́лі m pl (pačúli)
• Yiddish: פּאַטשולי pl (patshuli)

the oil or perfume made from these plants

• Finnish: patsuli (fi)
• French: patchouli (fr) m
• Georgian: პაჩული (ṗačuli)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Indisches Patschuli n
• Hindi: पचौली (hi) m (pacaulī)
• Hungarian: pacsuli (hu)
• Ido: pachulio (io)
• Indonesian: nilam (id)
• Irish: paitsiúlaí m
• Japanese: パチョリ (pachori), パチュリー (pachurī), パチュリ (pachuri)
• Polish: paczula (pl) f
• Portuguese: patchuli m
• Romanian: paciuli (ro) f
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} пачу́ли (ru) (pačúli)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pachulí (es)
• Ukrainian: пачу́лі m pl (pačúli)
• Yiddish: פּאַטשולי pl (patshuli)

See also

• mint

Further reading

• patchouli on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Dravidian *pac-

Tamil பச்சை (paccai)

Proto-Dravidian *el

Proto-Dravidian *ay

Proto-South Dravidian *elay

Old Tamil 𑀇𑀮𑁃 (ilai)

Tamil இலை (ilai)

Tamil பச்சிலை (paccilai)

Tamil பச்சுளி (paccuḷi)bor.

English patchoulibor.

French patchouli

Borrowed from English patchouli

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat.ʃu.li/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

patchouli m (uncountable)

1. patchouli (plant)
2. patchouli (oil)
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     C'était pour lui qu'elle se limait les ongles avec un soin de ciseleur, et qu'il n'y avait jamais assez de cold-cream sur sa peau, ni de patchouli dans ses mouchoirs.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “patchouli”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Portuguese

Noun

patchouli m (plural patchoulis)

1. alternative spelling of patchuli