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EtymologyEdit
From Middle English tooth, from Old English tōþ (“tooth”), from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Scots tuth, tuith (“tooth”), North Frisian toth, tos (“tooth”), Dutch tand (“tooth”), German Zahn (“tooth”), Danish and Swedish tand (“tooth”), Icelandic tönn (“tooth”), Welsh dant (“tooth”), Latin dēns (“tooth”), Lithuanian dantìs (“tooth”), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús)/ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), Armenian ատամ (atam), Persian دندان (dandân), Sanskrit दत् (dát, “tooth”). Related to tusk.
PronunciationEdit
tooth (plural teeth)
- A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
- A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
- A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
- (botany) A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
- (animation) The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allow better adhesion of artwork.
- (figuratively) taste; palate
- I have a sweet tooth: I love sugary treats.
- Dryden
- These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
biological tooth
- Abau: nays
- Abkhaz: ахаԥыц (āxāpəc)
- Albanian: dhëmb (sq)
- Ama: i
- Arabic: سِنّ (ar) f (sinn)
- Egyptian Arabic: سن m (senn), سنة f (senna), سنان f pl (senan)
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܫܢܐ f (šinnā)
- Hebrew: שִׁנָּא f (šinnā)
- Armenian: ատամ (hy) (atam), ակռա (hy) (akṙa) (Western Armenian)
- Aromanian: dinti f, dinte f
- Asturian: diente (ast) m, dentamen m pl
- Avar: ца (ca)
- Azeri: diş (az)
- Baluchi: دنتان (dantán), دتھاں
- Bashkir: теш (teš)
- Basque: hortz
- Bau Bidayuh: jupon
- Belarusian: зуб m (zub)
- Bengali: দাঁত (dãt)
- Borôro: o
- Breton: dant (br) m, dent (br) pl
- Brunei Bisaya: nipon
- Bulgarian: зъб (bg) m (zǎb)
- Burmese: သွား (my) (swa:)
- Buryat: шүдэн (šüden) (Russian Buryat)
- Catalan: dent (ca) f
- Central Melanau: nyipen
- Chamicuro: ajsi
- Chechen: церг (cerg)
- Cherokee: ᎦᏅᏙᎬ (ganvdogv)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 牙 (ngaa4)
- Mandarin: 牙齒 (zh), 牙齿 (zh) (yáchǐ), 牙 (zh) (yá), 齒 (zh), 齿 (zh) (chǐ)
- Min Dong: 牙 (ngai)
- Min Nan: chhùi-khí
- Chuukese: ngii
- Chuvash: шӑл (šăl)
- Coastal Kadazan: nipon
- Cornish: dans
- Crimean Tatar: tiş
- Czech: zub (cs) m
- Dalmatian: diant
- Danish: tand (da) c, tænder pl
- Darkinjung: dharra
- Dolgan: тиис (tiis)
- Dutch: tand (nl) m
- Eastern Arrernte: please add this translation if you can
- Esperanto: dento (eo)
- Estonian: hammas (et)
- Evenki: иктэ (ikte)
- Faroese: tonn f
- Finnish: hammas (fi)
- French: dent (fr) f
- Friulian: dint m
- Gagauz: diş
- Galician: dente (gl) m
- Gamilaraay: yira
- Georgian: კბილი (ḳbili)
- German: Zahn (de) m
- Greek: δόντι (el) n (dónti)
- Ancient: ὀδούς m (odoús)
- Guaraní: ãi (t-)
- Gujarati: દાંત (dā̃t)
- Hausa: hak'ori
- Hawaiian: niho
- Hebrew: שֵׁן (he) f (shén)
- Hindi: दाँत (hi) m (dā̃t), दान्त (hi) m (dānt)
- Hungarian: fog (hu)
- Icelandic: tönn (is) f
- Ido: dento (io)
- Indonesian: gigi (id), danta (id)
- Ingrian: hammaz
- Interlingua: dente
- Iranun: nipen
- Irish: fiacail (ga) f
- Isan: แข้ว (khaew)
- Italian: dente (it) m
- Japanese: 歯 (ja) (は, ha)
- Kalmyk: шүдн (şüdn)
- Kannada: ಹಲ್ಲು (kn) (hallu)
- Karachay-Balkar: тиш (tiş)
- Karakalpak: tis
- Kazakh: тіс (kk) (tis)
- Khakas: тіс (tís)
- Khmer: ធ្មេញ (km) (t’mēiñ)
- Kikuyu: igego
- Kimaragang: nipon
- Klamath-Modoc: dot
- Komi-Permyak: пинь (pinʹ)
- Korean: 이 (ko) (i), 니 (ko) (ni), (for beasts) 이빨 (ko) (ippal)
- Koryak: вʼаннылӈын (wannəlŋən)
- Krymchak: чыш
- Kumyk: тиш (tiş)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: didan (ku) m, diran (ku) m
- Sorani: دان (ku) (dân), ددان (didân)
- Kyrgyz: тиш (ky) (tiş)
- Lakota: hi
- Lao: ແຂ້ວ (lo) (khǣu)
- Latin: dēns (la) m
- Latvian: zobs (lv) m
- Laz: please add this translation if you can
- Ligurian: dénte m
- Lingala: lǐno
- Lithuanian: dantis (lt)
- Lotud: nipon
- Luganda: erinnyo
- Luhya: liliino
- Luo: lak
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- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: заб m (zab)
- Malay: gigi, danta
- Malayalam: പല്ല് (ml) (pall), ദന്തം (ml) (dantaṃ), യന്ത്രപ്പല്ല് (yantrappall)
- Maori: niho
- Mapudungun: ülnga, voro
- Mbabaram: dirra
- Mingrelian: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: шүд (mn) (šüd)
- Nahuatl: tlantli (nah)
- Navajo: awooʼ
- Neapolitan: dente m
- Nepali: दाँत (ne) (dā̃t)
- Nogai: тис (tis)
- North Frisian: tus m
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: tann (no) c
- Nottoway-Meherrin: otosag
- Ojibwe: -bid, -bidan pl (inalienable, always requires a pronoun: niibid = my tooth)
- Okinawan: 歯 (はー, haa)
- Old Church Slavonic: зѫбъ m (zǫbŭ)
- Old English: tōþ
- Oriya: ଦାନ୍ତ (or) (danta)
- Ossetian: дӕндаг (dændag)
- Ottoman Turkish: ديش (diş)
- Pashto: غاښ (ps) m (γāx)
- Persian: دندان (fa) (dandân), دندون (dandun) (colloquial), گاز (fa) (gâz)
- Phu Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Pitjantjatjara: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: ząb (pl) m
- Portuguese: dente (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਦੰਦ (dand)
- Quechua: kiru (qu)
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Rohingya: dat
- Romani: dand
- Romanian: dinte (ro) m
- Rungus: nipon
- Russian: зуб (ru) m (zub)
- Sabah Bisaya: nipon
- Samoan: nifo (sm)
- Sanskrit: दन्त (sa) m (danta)
- Sardinian: dènte f
- Scots: tuith
- Scottish Gaelic: fiacail f
- Sebop: jipen
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: зу̑б m
- Roman: zȗb (sh) m
- Shan: please add this translation if you can
- Shor: тиш (tiş)
- Sichuan Yi: ꎐ (rry)
- Sicilian: denti (scn) m
- Sinhalese: දත (si) (data)
- Skolt Sami: pää´nn
- Slovak: zub m
- Slovene: zob (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: zub m
- Upper Sorbian: zub m
- Southern Altai: тиш (tiş)
- Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: diente (es) m
- Sundanese: huntu (su), waos
- Swahili: jino (sw) sg, meno (sw) pl (noun 5/6)
- Swedish: tand (sv) c
- Tagal Murut: ripon
- Tagalog: ngipin (tl)
- Tahitian: nihfi
- Tajik: дандон (tg) (dandon)
- Talysh:
- Anbarani: داندون (dândun)
- Tambunan Dusun: nipon
- Tamil: பல் (ta) (pal)
- Tatar: теш (tt) (teş)
- Telugu: పన్ను (te) (pannu)
- Thai: กราม (th) (graam), ฟันกราม (fan graam), (formal) ทันต์ (than dtà), ฟัน (th) (fan)
- Tibetan: སོ (so)
- Timugon Murut: ripon
- Tok Pisin: tis
- Tongan: nifo
- Tupinambá: ãîa (t-)
- Turkish: diş (tr)
- Turkmen: diş
- Tuvan: диш (dïš)
- Ukrainian: зуб (uk) m (zub)
- Urdu: دانت m (dā̃t, dānt), دندان m (dandān)
- Uyghur: چىش (ug) (chish)
- Uzbek: tish (uz)
- Venetian: dénte m
- Vietnamese: răng (vi)
- Volapük: tut (vo)
- Votic: ammaz
- Walloon: dint (wa) f
- Waray-Waray: ta-ngo
- Welsh: dant (cy)
- West Coast Bajau: impon
- West Frisian: tosk
- Wolof: bëñ (wo)
- Yakut: тиис (tiis)
- Yiddish: צאָן m (tson)
- Yoruba: ehín
- Zhuang: heuj
- Zulu: izinyo (zu) class 5/6
- ǃXóõ: ǁqhàã
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tooth (third-person singular simple present tooths, present participle toothing, simple past and past participle toothed)
- To provide or furnish with teeth.
- To indent; to jag.
- to tooth a saw
- To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Moxon to this entry?)
