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miros

smell /miˈros/

noun#1158 most common

Also: odor, scent

Example sentences

Acest miros este plăcut.
This smell is pleasant.
Florile au un miros frumos.
The flowers have a beautiful smell.
Simt un miros ciudat în bucătărie.
I smell a strange odor in the kitchen.
Câinele are un simț al mirosului foarte dezvoltat.
The dog has a very developed sense of smell.
Mirosul de pâine proaspătă m-a dus cu gândul la copilărie.
The smell of fresh bread took me back to my childhood.
Deși încăperea fusese aerisită, mirosul persistent de fum trăda faptul că cineva fumase înăuntru cu puțin timp în urmă.
Although the room had been aired out, the persistent smell of smoke betrayed the fact that someone had smoked inside a short while before.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativemirosmirosuri
Genitivemirosuluimirosurilor
Accusativemirosmirosuri
Vocativemirosmirosuri

Word family

a mirosito smell
mirositorfragrant, sweet-smelling
urât mirositorfoul-smelling
mirosurismells, scents (plural)

Etymology

Miros is a noun formed from the verb a mirosi, to smell. The verb's origin is not settled. It does not come from Latin, which is unusual for such a basic everyday word in Romanian, and dictionaries typically mark its source as uncertain. Some scholars propose a link to the pre-Roman Balkan substrate, but no cognate is established with confidence.

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