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# attar

«attar» in Mova's school dictionary: **A strong, sweet-smelling oil made from flower petals…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (attars) (old or rare word)

### meaning for a pupil

A strong, sweet-smelling oil made from flower petals, especially roses, used for perfume. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attar/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales a sweet scent or a rich perfume, often used to describe water or a room

### examples

- The room smelled of attar of roses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attar/#x1)
- In and out of it flowed water like attar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attar/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «attar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.