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incense stick en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A thin stick covered with incense that burns slowly and gives off fragrant smoke when set alight.
   • For instance, Hawkins, Lewis, Hankin and Sengupta all cover the word agarbatti, an incense stick or joss stick, but there is no way of knowing when this term was first used in Indian English, nor whether it is now current or obsolete. 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 300:

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Translations (4)

hi अगरबत्ती (A thin stick covered in incense) · cmn 線香 /线香 (A thin stick covered in incense) · de Räucherstäbchen (A thin stick covered in incense) · pl kadzidełko (A thin stick covered in incense)