agarwood

English

Etymology

agar +‎ wood. Agar is ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *agil (“eagle-wood”). Compare Tamil அகில் (akil) and Malayalam അകില് (akil).

Noun

agarwood (uncountable)

1. Heartwood from trees of genus Aquilaria, especially Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. ), infected with mold (), which produce an aromatic resin in response to this infestation.

Synonyms

• (Aquilaria heartwood): agalloch, agallochum, agalwood, agilawood, aloewood, aloeswood, aloes, eaglewood, jinko, lignaloe, oud, gaharu, xylaloe

Translations

type of heartwood

• Arabic: عُود (ar) m (ʕūd), رَنْد m (rand), قُطُر (ar) m (quṭur)
• Armenian: հալվե (hy) (halve)
• Bengali: অগুরু (bn) (oguru), আগর (agor)
• Catalan: agàl·loc m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沉香 (cam⁴ hoeng¹)

  Mandarin: 沉香 (zh) (chénxiāng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: agarpuu
• French: calambac (fr) m, calambour (fr) m, calamba (fr), gaharu m, bois d’aigle (fr) m, agalloche (fr)
• German: Adlerholz n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀγάλοχον n (agálokhon), ξυλαλόη f (xulalóē)

• Hindi: अगर (hi) m (agar), कालागरू (hi) m (kālāgrū)
• Japanese: 沈香 (jinkō)
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• Korean: 침향 (chimhyang)
• Old Armenian: հալուէ (haluē)
• Ottoman Turkish: عود آغاجی (öd ağacı)
• Portuguese: calambac m, madeira de aloes f, calambuco m
• Russian: каламба́к m (kalambák), ало́йное де́рево n (alójnoje dérevo), орли́ное де́рево n (orlínoje dérevo)
• Sanskrit: अगरु (sa) m (agaru), कालागुरु (sa) m (kālāguru), काल (sa) m (kāla)
• Spanish: agáloco (es), áloe (es)
• Swedish: örnträ n
• Tagalog: kalamba
• Telugu: అగరుగంధపు (agarugandhapu)
• Thai: กฤษณา (th) (grìt-sà-nǎa)
• Tibetan: ཨ་ག་རུ (a ga ru)
• Turkish: öd ağacı (tr)
• Vaghri: અગર (agar)
• Vietnamese: trầm hương (vi)

References

• agarwood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “agarwood”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “agarwood”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.