toothpick

English

Toothpicks

Etymology

tooth +‎ pick

Noun

toothpick ‎(plural toothpicks)

1. A small, usually wooden, stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from between the teeth.

Synonyms

• dentiscalp, picktooth (obsolete)

Translations

stick for removing food residue from the area between the teeth

• Arabic: عود تخليل أسنان
• Armenian: ատամնափորիչ (hy) ‎(atamnapʿoričʿ)
• Basque: zotz (eu), txotx
• Belarusian: зубачы́стка f ‎(zubačýstka)
• Bulgarian: кле́чка (bg) f ‎(kléčka)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牙簽, 牙籤, 牙签 ‎(ngaa⁴ cim¹)

  Mandarin: 牙簽 (zh), 牙籤 (zh), 牙签 (zh) ‎(yáqiān)

  Min Nan: 齒戳仔 (zh-min-nan), 齿戳仔 ‎(khí-thok-á), 齒戳, 齿戳 ‎(khí-thok)

• Czech: párátko (cs) n
• Dutch: tandenstoker (nl) m
• Finnish: hammastikku (fi)
• French: cure-dent (fr) m
• Georgian: კბილსაჩიჩქნი ‎(ḳbilsačičkni)
• German: Zahnstocher (de) m
• Greek: οδοντογλυφίδα (el) f ‎(odontoglyfída)
• Hebrew: קֵיסָם (he) m ‎(keisám)
• Hungarian: fogpiszkáló (hu)
• Irish: bior fiacla m
• Italian: stuzzicadenti (it) m
• Japanese: 楊枝 ‎(ようじ, yōji), 楊子 ‎(ようじ, yōji)
• Norman: êpinnoque-dents m
• Khmer: ឈើចាក់ធ្មេញ ‎(cʰəə cak tmɨɲ)
• Korean: 이쑤시개 (ko) ‎(issusigae)
• Lao: ໄມ້ຈີ້ມແຂ້ວ ‎(mai chīm khǣu)

• Latin: dentiscalpium n
• Macedonian: чепкалка f ‎(čepkalka)
• Maltese: tutpikk
• Navajo: awókʼiz bee naʼatsií
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tannpirker m, tannstikker m

  Nynorsk: tannpirkar m, tannstikkar m

• Polish: wykałaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: palito de dentes m
• Romanian: scobitoare (ro) f
• Russian: зубочи́стка (ru) f ‎(zubočístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чачкалица f

  Roman: čačkalica (sh) f

• Slovak: špáradlo n
• Slovene: zobotrebec m
• Spanish: palillo (es) m, escarbadientes (es) m
• Swedish: tandpetare (sv) c, tandsticka c
• Tagalog: panghininga, palito, pantinga
• Thai: ไม้จิ้มฟัน ‎(máai jîm fan)
• Turkish: kürdan (tr)
• Ukrainian: зубочи́стка f ‎(zubočýstka)
• Vietnamese: tăm (vi), tăm xỉa răng
• Yiddish: ציינשטעכער m ‎(tseynshtekher)

External links

Toothpick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia