dentist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dentiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛntɪst/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

dentist (plural dentists)

1. A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119:

     It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.

   • 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema‎^[1], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:

     Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.

Derived terms

• surgeon-dentist

 

Related terms

• antidentite
• dental
• denture

Translations

specialized tooth doctor

• Afrikaans: tandarts
• Albanian: dentist (sq)
• Arabic: طَبِيب أَسْنَان (ar) m (ṭabīb ʔasnān), طَبِيبَة أَسْنَان f (ṭabībat ʔasnān)

  Egyptian Arabic: دكتور أسنان m (duktūr ʔasnān)

• Armenian: ատամնաբույժ (hy) (atamnabuyž)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܣܝܵܐ ܕܟܹܟܹ̈ܐ m (āsyā d-kēkē), ܐܵܣܝܼܬܵܐ ܕܟܹܟܹ̈ܐ f (āsītā d-kēkē)
• Asturian: dentista m or f
• Azerbaijani: diş həkimi
• Basque: haginlari
• Belarusian: зубны́ ле́кар m (zubný ljékar)
• Bulgarian: зъболе́кар (bg) m (zǎbolékar), стоматолог m (stomatolog), дентист m (dentist), зъбар (bg) m (zǎbar) (obsolete), дентален лекар m (dentalen lekar)
• Catalan: dentista (ca)
• Chechen: цергийн лор (cergiı̇n lor)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牙醫／牙医 (ngaa⁴ ji¹)

  Mandarin: 牙醫／牙医 (zh) (yáyī), 牙科醫生／牙科医生 (zh) (yákē yīshēng)

• Czech: zubař (cs) m, zubařka (cs) f
• Danish: tandlæge (da) c
• Dutch: tandarts (nl), dentist (nl) m
• Esperanto: dentisto (eo), dentistino (female)
• Estonian: hambaarst (et)
• Faroese: tannlækni m
• Finnish: hammaslääkäri (fi)
• French: dentiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: dentista (gl) m or f
• Georgian: კბილის ექიმი (ḳbilis ekimi)
• German: Zahnarzt (de) m, Zahnärztin (de) f, Zahnmediziner (de) m Dentist (de) m
• Greek: οδοντίατρος (el) m or f (odontíatros)
• Greenlandic: kigutinik nakorsaq
• Hawaiian: kauka niho
• Hebrew: רוֹפֵא שִׁינַּייִם (he) m (rofe' shinaim), רופאת שיניים f (rof'at shinaim)
• Hindi: डेंटिस्ट (hi) m (ḍẽṭisṭ)
• Hungarian: fogorvos (hu), fogász (hu)
• Icelandic: tannlæknir (is) m
• Ido: dentisto (io)
• Indonesian: dokter gigi (id)
• Irish: fiaclóir m
• Italian: dentista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 歯医者 (ja) (はいしゃ, haisha), 歯科医 (ja) (しかい, shikai), 歯科医師 (ja) (しかいし, shikaishi)
• Kazakh: тіс дәрігері (tıs därıgerı), тіс технигі (tıs texnigı)
• Khmer: ពេទ្យធ្មេញ (pɛɛt tmɨɲ)
• Khoekhoe: ǁgûǀaedī-aob
• Korean: 치과(齒科) 의사(醫師) (chigwa uisa)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دان ساز (dan saz)

• Lao: ໝໍປົວແຂ້ວ (mǭ pūa khǣu)
• Latvian: zobārsts m, zobārste f, stomatologs m, stomatoloģe f
• Lithuanian: dantų gydytojas
• Macedonian: забар m (zabar), заболе́кар m (zabolékar), стоматоло́г m (stomatológ)
• Malay: doktor gigi (ms)
• Maori: tākuta niho
• Mongolian: шүдний эмч (šüdnii emč)
• Norman: dentiste m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tannlege (no) m

  Nynorsk: tannlege m

• Occitan: dentista (oc) m or f
• Ojibwe: wiibidaa-mashkikiiwinini
• Ottoman Turkish: دیشجی (dişci)
• Papiamentu: dentista
• Persian: دندان‌پزشک (fa) (dandân-pezešk), (also: dental technician) دندانساز (fa) (dandân-sâz)
• Polish: dentysta (pl) m, dentystka (pl) f
• Portuguese: dentista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: dentist (ro) m, dentistă (ro) f
• Russian: зубно́й врач (ru) m (zubnój vrač), данти́ст (ru) m (dantíst), стомато́лог (ru) m (stomatólog), зубно́й (ru) m (zubnój) (colloquial)
• Sanskrit: दन्तवैद्य m (dantavaidya)
• Scottish Gaelic: fiaclaire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зу̀ба̄р m

  Roman: zùbār (sh) m

• Slovak: zubár m, zubárka f
• Slovene: zobozdravnik (sl) m, zobozdravníca f
• Spanish: dentista (es) m or f, odontólogo (es) m
• Swahili: daktari wa meno
• Swedish: tandläkare (sv)
• Tagalog: dentista (tl)
• Tahitian: taote niho
• Tajik: дандонпизишк (dandonpizišk)
• Telugu: దంతవైద్యుడు (te) (dantavaidyuḍu)
• Thai: ทันตแพทย์ (th) (tan-dtà-pɛ̂ɛt), หมอฟัน (th) (mɔ̌ɔ-fan)
• Turkish: diş tabibi (tr), diş hekimi (tr), dişçi (tr), diş doktoru (tr)
• Turkmen: diş doktory
• Ukrainian: зубни́й лі́кар m (zubnýj líkar), данти́ст m (dantýst)
• Urdu: ڈینٹسٹ m (ḍeṇṭisṭ), دندان ساز m (dandān sāz)
• Vietnamese: thầy thuốc chữa răng, nha sĩ (vi), bác sĩ nha khoa
• Volapük: (♂♀) tutisanavan (vo), (♂) tutihisanavan, (♀) tutijisanavan
• Welsh: deintydd (cy)
• West Frisian: toskedokter
• Yiddish: צאָנדאָקטער m (tsondokter)
• Zulu: udokotela wamazinyo (zu)

See also

• orthodontics
• toothpuller

Anagrams

• distent, stinted

Dutch

Etymology

From French dentiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛnˈtɪst/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: den‧tist

Noun

dentist m (plural dentisten, diminutive dentistje n, feminine dentiste)

1. dentist

Synonyms

• tandarts

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dentiste, German Dentist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /denˈtist/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

dentist m (plural dentiști, feminine equivalent dentistă)

1. dentist

   Synonyms: stomatolog, odontoiatru

Declension

Declension of dentist

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) dentist	dentistul	(niște) dentiști	dentiștii
genitive/dative	(unui) dentist	dentistului	(unor) dentiști	dentiștilor
vocative	dentistule		dentiștilor

Derived terms

• dentistică

Related terms

• dinte

References

• dentist in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)