orientalist

English

Etymology

orient + -ist

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˌɔriˈɛntəlɪst/

Noun

orientalist (plural orientalists)

1. a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient
   • 1684, George Bright, preface to The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D.

     Which is rendred somewhat more probable by that very learned Orientalist Dr. Pocok, who tells us the Arabick verb Hausch answering to the Hebrew חיש signifies three things, viz. to hast, to fear, to be ashamed.

Translations

a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient

• Armenian: արևելագետ (hy) (arevelaget)
• Hungarian: orientalista (hu)

• Romanian: orientalist (ro) m
• Russian: востоковед (ru) (vostokovéd) m, восточник (ru) (vostóčnik) m (colloquial)

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Swedish

Noun

orientalist c

1. an orientalist

Declension

Declension of orientalist

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	orientalist	orientalisten	orientalister	orientalisterna
genitive	orientalists	orientalistens	orientalisters	orientalisternas