Noun: attar
| Singular | attar |
| Plural | attars |
Sample Sentences
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Now, when orange-flowers are distilled with water, we procure the otto of the blossom, which is known commercially as oil of neroli. [1857, G[eorge] W[illiam] Septimus Piesse, “Section III”, in The Art of Perfumery, and Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants, […], Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay and Blackiston, →OCLC, page 78:]
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I bequeath to you my literary work. Useless though these might be commercially, they are the attar-drops distilled from the long and futile ebullience of my life. [1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 125:]
Nouns inflected like attar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian عطر (atr, “scent”), from Arabic عِطْر (ʕiṭr, “perfume”).
Verbs referencing "attar"
Irish Nouns
atar.