orientalist

English

Etymology

oriental +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɔɹiˈɛntəlɪst/

Noun

orientalist (plural orientalists)

1. A scholar who studies the Orient; a person 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.

   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 27:

     If, however, Orientalists be right in their interpretation of the name of Artaxerxes' queen, Parisatis, as Pari-zadeh (Peri-born), the Peri must be coeval with the religion of Zoroaster.

Alternative forms

• Orientalist

Translations

a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient

• Arabic: مُسْتَشْرِق m (mustašriq)
• Armenian: արևելագետ (hy) (arewelaget)
• Azerbaijani: şərqşünas
• Catalan: orientalista
• Czech: orientalista m
• Danish: orientalist c
• French: orientaliste (fr) m or f
• German: Orientalist (de) m, Orientalistin (de) f
• Hindi: प्राच्यविद् m (prācyavid), प्राच्यविद्याविद् m (prācyavidyāvid), प्राच्यवेत्ता m (prācyavettā)
• Hungarian: orientalista (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: orientalist m

  Nynorsk: orientalist m

• Persian: شرق‌شناس (fa) (šarq-šenâs)
• Romanian: orientalist (ro) m
• Russian: востокове́д (ru) m (vostokovéd), восто́чник (ru) m (vostóčnik) (colloquial)
• Swedish: orientalist (sv) c
• Tajik: шарқшинос (šarqšinos)
• Turkish: oryantalist (tr)
• Uzbek: sharqshunos (uz)

Anagrams

• literations, natrosilite, relationist

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French orientaliste.

Noun

orientalist m (plural orientaliști)

1. orientalist

Declension

Declension of orientalist

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) orientalist	orientalistul	(niște) orientaliști	orientaliștii
genitive/dative	(unui) orientalist	orientalistului	(unor) orientaliști	orientaliștilor
vocative	orientalistule		orientaliștilor

Swedish

Noun

orientalist c

1. an orientalist

Declension

Declension of orientalist
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	orientalist	orientalisten	orientalister	orientalisterna
Genitive	orientalists	orientalistens	orientalisters	orientalisternas