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Etymology
From Latin lingua (“tongue”) + -ist.
Noun
linguist (plural linguists)
- One who studies linguistics.
- A person skilled in languages.
- A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.
Derived terms
Translations
one who studies linguistics
- Afrikaans: taalkundige (af), linguis (af), taalwetenskaplike (af)
- Arabic: لغوي (ar) (lughawiy) m, عالم لغوي (ar) (3aalim lughawiy) m
- Armenian: լեզվաբան (hy) (lezvaban)
- Catalan: lingüista (ca) m and f
- Chechen: меттанийн Iлманча
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 語言學家 (cmn), 语言学家 (cmn) (yǔyán xuéjiā), 語言學者 (cmn), 语言学者 (cmn) (yǔyán xuézhě)
- Czech: jazykovědec (cs) m, lingvista (cs) m
- Danish: lingvist (da) m and f
- Dutch: taalkundige (nl) m and f, linguïst (nl) m
- Esperanto: lingvisto (eo)
- Faroese: málfrøðingur (fo) m
- Finnish: kielitieteilijä (fi), lingvistikko (fi)
- French: linguiste (fr)
- Georgian: ლინგვისტი (ka) (lingvisti)
- German: Sprachwissenschaftler (de) m, Linguist (de) m, Sprachwissenschaftlerin (de) f, Linguistin (de) f
- Greek: γλωσσολόγος (el) (glossológos) m and f
- Greenlandic: oqaasilerisoq (kl)
- Hebrew: בלשן (he) (balshan) m
- Hungarian: nyelvész (hu)
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- Icelandic: málvísindamaður (is) m
- Interlingua: linguista (ia)
- Irish: teangeolaí (ga) m
- Italian: linguista (it) m and f
- Japanese: 言語学者 (ja) (げんごがくしゃ, gengogakusha)
- Jèrriais: lîndgiste m and f
- Latvian: valodnieks (lv) m, lingvists (lv) m
- Lithuanian: kalbininkas (lt) m, lingvistas (lt) m, kalbotyrininkas (lt) m
- Manx: çhengeyder (gv) m, glareydagh (gv) m
- Persian: زبانشناس (fa) (zaban-shenas)
- Polish: językoznawca (pl) m
- Russian: лингвист (ru) (lingvíst) m, языковед (ru) (jazykovéd) m
- Scottish Gaelic: cainntear (gd) m, cànanaiche (gd) m, teangaiche (gd) m, teangair (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian: lìngvist (sh) m, lingvìstica (sh) f, jezikoslóvac (sh) m
- Slovak: jazykovedec (sk) m
- Slovene: jezikoslovec (sl)
- Spanish: lingüista (es) m and f
- Swedish: lingvist (sv)
- Tatar: телче (tt) (telçe), тел белгече (tt) (tel belgeçe), лингвист (tt) (lingvist)
- Turkish: dilbilimci (tr)
- Welsh: ieithydd (cy) m
- Yiddish: לינגוויסט (yi) (lingvist) m
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a person skilled in languages
- Finnish: kieliniekka (fi), kielimies (fi)
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a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
