
GAHARU TECHNOLOGIES SDN BHD was founded in October 2008 to undertake intensive cultivation of gaharu-producing Aquilaria plants on a commercial scale. Agarwood is known under many names in different cultures:
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The Indonesian and Malay name is "gaharu".
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In Hindi (India), it is known as agar, which is originally Sanskrit aguru (in Bengali, also aguru).
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It is known as chénxiāng (沉香) in Chinese, trầm hương in Vietnamese, and jinkō (沈香) in Japanese; all meaning "sinking incense" and alluding to its high density.
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Both agarwood and its resin distillate/extracts are known as oud (عود) in Arabic (literally "rod/stick") and used to describe agarwood in nations and areas in Arabic countries.
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In Europe it was referred to as Lignum aquila (eagle-wood) or Agilawood, because of the similarity in sound of agila to gaharu.