smelly

smell /smel/ v (pt, pp smelt /smelt/ or smelled )

၁။ (က) (not used in the continuous tenses; often with can or could ) အနံ့ရသည်။ Can you smell anything unusual? ❍ The dog had smelt a rabbit. ❍ I could smell (that) he had been smoking. ❍ I can smell something burning. ❍ FEEL (ခ) နမ်း၊ ရှူ ကြည့်သည်။ အနံ့ခံသည်။ a dog smelling a lamppost ❍ Smell this and tell me what you think it is.
၂။ (not used in the continuous tenses) အနံ့ခံနိုင်သည်။ Can birds smell?
၃။ (က) (not used in the continuous tenses) နံသည်။ Your breath smells. ❍ The fish has begun to smell. (ခ) ~ (of sth) အနံ့ရသည်။ မွှေးသည်။ a bunch of sweet-smelling flowers ❍ The dinner smells good. ❍ What does the perfume smell like? ❍ The soup smells of garlic. ❍ Her house smells of dogs.
၄။ [ဥ] အနံ့ရသည်။ He smelt danger. ❍ I can smell trouble (coming).
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၁။ [U] ဂန္ဓာရုံ။ Taste and smell are closely connected. ❍ Dogs have an excellent sense of smell.
၂။ (က) [C, U] အနံ့။ ရနံ့။ အနံ့အသက်။ a sweet/musty/delicious smell ❍ a strong/faint smell of gas ❍ There's a smell of cooking. ❍ The smells from the kitchen filled the room. ❍ The cream has no smell. (ခ) [sing] အနံ့ဆိုး။ There's a bit of a smell in here. ❍ What a smell! တကယ် ဆိုးတဲ့ အနံ့ကြီး။
၃။ [C usu sing ] နမ်း၊ ရှူ ကြည့်ခြင်း။ Have a smell of this egg and tell me if it's bad.
❏ smelling-salts n [pl] (ရှေး) ဇဝက်သာရှူဆေး။
❏ smell sb/sth out [PHRV ] အနံ့ခံပြီးဖော်ထုတ်သည်။ The dogs are specially trained to smell out drugs.
❏ smell a rat [IDM ] (infml ) တစ်ခုခုတော့ တစ်ခုခုပဲဟု မသင်္ကာဖြစ်သည်။ I smelt a rat when he started being so helpful!
❏ smelly adj (-ier , -iest ) (infml ) နံသော။ a smelly room/person ❍ smelly feet/breath/fumes.