to smell (something); to sniff (something) · to use the sense of smell; to detect a smell · to smell something
çekim: geçmiş roch · ortaç gerochen · şimdiki riecht · ulaç riechend
eş: einen Geruch wahrnehmen, schnuppern, schnüffeln, wittern, einen Geruch ausströmen, verbreiten
köken: From Middle High German riechen, from Old High German riohhan, from Proto-West Germanic *reukan, from Proto-Germanic *reukaną. Compare English reek, Dutch rieken, Danish ryge, Swedish ryka. See also Rauch, Geruch.
to smell (to perceive a smell with the nose) · to smell (to have a particular smell) · to snoop, pry (to inquire into something that does not concern one)
çekim: geçmiş cheirei · ortaç cheirado · şimdiki cheira
eş: snifar
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cheirar (“to smell”), from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin flagrāre, by dissimilation from Latin fragrāre. Cognate to Galician cheirar, Extremaduran cheral, Catalan and Occitan flairar, Sicilian ciagurari, French flairer, and English flair (through Old French flair).
to smell (usually (of something with) a pleasant scent) · to smell (usually something with a pleasant scent) · to sprinkle (something over a pastry or the like)
çekim: geçmiş doftade · ortaç doftande · ulaç doftande
to smell nice (to emit a nice smell) · to smell something nice (to detect a nice smell)
çekim: geçmiş duftede · ortaç duftet · ulaç duftende
köken: Borrowed from German duften, derived from the noun Duft (“smell”) (cf. Danish duft).
Blomsterne dufter.
Jeg duftede til blomsterne.
Etimoloji
tuo- (“to bring (with one)”) + -ksua (reflexive verb), i.e. “to bring (with) oneself”; in dialects also with meanings like "to shed dust, billow", and the modern sense is probably a literary coinage.