toothpaste

English

Etymology

From tooth +‎ paste. Compare Saterland Frisian Tuskepasta (“toothpaste”), West Frisian toskpoetserguod (“toothpaste”), Dutch tandpasta (“toothpaste”), German Zahnpasta, Zahnpaste (“toothpaste”), Danish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Swedish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Icelandic tannkrem (“toothpaste”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːθpeɪst/

Noun

toothpaste (countable and uncountable, plural toothpastes)

1. A paste, normally used with a toothbrush, for cleaning the teeth.

Derived terms

• toothpaste is out of the tube
• toothpastey
• toothpasty

Translations

paste for cleaning the teeth

• Afrikaans: tandepasta
• Albanian: pastë dhëmbësh f, kolinoz m
• Arabic: مَعْجُون الأَسْنَان m (maʕjūn al-ʔasnān)
• Armenian: ատամի մածուկ (atami macuk)
• Azerbaijani: diş pastası, diş məcunu
• Bashkir: теш пастаһы (teş pastahı)
• Belarusian: зубна́я па́ста f (zubnája pásta)
• Bulgarian: па́ста за зъ̀би f (pásta za zǎ̀bi)
• Burmese: သွားတိုက်ဆေး (my) (swa:tuikhce:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牙膏 (ngaa⁴ gou¹)

  Hakka: 牙膏 (ngà-kâu)

  Mandarin: 牙膏 (zh) (yágāo)

  Min Dong: 牙膏 (ngāi-gŏ̤)

  Min Nan: 齒膏／齿膏 (zh-min-nan), 齿膏 (khí-ko), 牙膏 (gê-ko)

  Wu: 牙膏 (nga kau)

• Chuvash: шăл пасти (šăl p̬asti)
• Czech: zubní pasta (cs) f
• Danish: tandpasta (da) c
• Daur: яагау (jaagau)
• Dutch: tandpasta (nl) m
• Elfdalian: tannkrem m
• Esperanto: dentopasto
• Estonian: hambapasta (et)
• Faroese: tannkrem n
• Finnish: hammastahna (fi)
• French: dentifrice (fr) m, pâte à dents (fr) f (Canadian French)
• Galician: pasta dentífrica f
• Georgian: კბილის პასტა (ḳbilis ṗasṭa)
• German: Zahnpasta (de) f, Zahncreme (de) f, Zahncrème, Zahnpaste (de)
• Greek: οδοντόκρεμα (el) f (odontókrema), οδοντόπαστα (el) f (odontópasta)
• Greenlandic: kigutit qaqorsaataat, tandpasta
• Haitian Creole: pat, kòlgat
• Hebrew: משחת שיניים/מִשְׁחַת שִׁנַּיִם (he) f (mishchát shináyim)
• Hindi: दन्तमंजन (dantamañjan), दंतमंजन (dantmañjan), टूथपेस्ट m (ṭūthpesṭ)
• Hungarian: fogkrém (hu)
• Ido: dentifrico (io)
• Indonesian: pasta gigi (id)
• Irish: taos fiacla m
• Italian: dentifricio (it)
• Japanese: 歯磨剤 (ja) (しまざい, shimazai), 歯磨き粉 (ja) (はみがきこ, hamigakiko), 練り歯磨き (ja) (ねりはみがき, nerihamigaki)
• Kazakh: тіс пастасы (kk) (tıs pastasy)
• Khmer: ថ្នាំដុសធ្មេញ (thnam doh thmɨñ)
• Korean: 치약 (ko) (chiyak)
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• Kyrgyz: тиш пастасы (tiş pastası)
• Lao: ຢາສີຟັນ (yā sī fan)
• Latin: dentifricium n
• Latvian: zobu pasta f
• Lithuanian: dantų pasta f
• Luxembourgish: Zännseef f
• Lü: ᦓᧄᧉᦊᦱᦉᦲᦵᦃᧁᧉ (nam²ẏaaṡiiẋew²)
• Macedonian: забна паста f (zabna pasta)
• Malay: ubat gigi
• Maltese: tutpejst m
• Maori: pēniho
• Mongolian: шүдний оо (šüdnii oo)
• Navajo: awooʼ bił yichʼiishí, awooʼ bił yichʼiishí bikʼi nátłohí
• Norman: pâte à dents f
• Northern Sami: bátnegealas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tannkrem (no) m, tannpasta (no) m

  Nynorsk: tannkrem m, tannpasta m

• Persian: خمیردندان (xamirdandân)
• Polish: pasta do zębów (pl) f
• Portuguese: pasta de dente, creme dental m
• Romanian: pastă de dinți (ro)
• Romansch: pasta da dents f
• Russian: зубна́я па́ста (ru) f (zubnája pásta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зубна паста f, паста за зубе f

  Roman: zubna pasta f, pasta za zube f

• Slovak: zubná pasta f
• Slovene: zobna pasta (sl) f
• Spanish: crema dental f, pasta de dientes f, dentífrico (es) m
• Swedish: tandkräm (sv) c
• Tagalog: pasta sa ngipin
• Tajik: хамираи дандон (xamirayi dandon)
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• Tatar: теш пастасы (teş pastası)
• Thai: ยาสีฟัน (th) (yaa-sǐi-fan)
• Tibetan: སོ་སྨན (so sman)
• Turkish: diş macunu
• Turkmen: diş pastasy
• Ukrainian: зубна́ па́ста f (zubná pásta)
• Uyghur: چىش پاستىسى (chish pastisi), ياگاۋ (yagaw)
• Uzbek: tish pastasi
• Vietnamese: kem đánh răng, thuốc đánh răng
• Volapük: tutakrem (vo)
• Welsh: pâst dannedd (cy) m
• West Frisian: toskpasta c, toskeguod n
• Yakut: тиис паастата (tiis paastata)