dentist

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from French dentiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛn.tɪst/, /ˈdɛ.nɪst/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

dentist (plural dentists)

1. A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119:

     It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.

   • 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema‎, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:

     Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.

2. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of Dengist.

Derived terms

• dentistess
• dentistic
• dentistical
• dentistlike
• dentistress
• dentistry
• nondentist
• surgeon-dentist

Related terms

• antidentite
• dental
• denture

Translations

specialized tooth doctor

Afrikaans: tandarts Albanian: dentist (sq) Arabic: طَبِيب أَسْنَان (ar) m (ṭabīb ʔasnān), طَبِيبَة أَسْنَان f (ṭabībat ʔasnān) Egyptian Arabic: دكتور أسنان m (duktūr ʔasnān) Armenian: ատամնաբույժ (hy) (atamnabuyž) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܣܝܵܐ ܕܟܹܟܹ̈ܐ m (āsyā d-kēkē), ܐܵܣܝܼܬܵܐ ܕܟܹܟܹ̈ܐ f (āsītā d-kēkē) Asturian: dentista m or f Azerbaijani: diş həkimi Basque: haginlari Belarusian: зубны́ ле́кар m (zubný ljékar) Bulgarian: зъболе́кар (bg) m (zǎbolékar), стоматолог m (stomatolog), дентист m (dentist), зъбар (bg) m (zǎbar) (obsolete), дентален лекар m (dentalen lekar) Catalan: dentista (ca) Chechen: цергийн лор (cergiı̇n lor) Chinese: Cantonese: 牙醫 / 牙医 (ngaa4 ji1) Mandarin: 牙醫 / 牙医 (zh) (yáyī), 牙科醫生 / 牙科医生 (zh) (yákē yīshēng) Czech: zubař (cs) m, zubařka (cs) f Danish: tandlæge (da) c Dutch: tandarts (nl), dentist (nl) m Esperanto: dentisto (eo), dentistino (female) Estonian: hambaarst (et) Faroese: tannlækni m Finnish: hammaslääkäri (fi) French: dentiste (fr) m or f Galician: dentista (gl) m or f Georgian: კბილის ექიმი (ḳbilis ekimi) German: Zahnarzt (de) m, Zahnärztin (de) f, Zahnmediziner (de) m Dentist (de) m Greek: οδοντίατρος (el) m or f (odontíatros) Greenlandic: kigutinik nakorsaq Hawaiian: kauka niho Hebrew: רוֹפֵא שִׁינַּייִם (he) m (rofe' shinaim), רופאת שיניים f (rof'at shinaim) Hindi: डेंटिस्ट (hi) m (ḍẽṭisṭ) Hungarian: fogorvos (hu), fogász (hu) Icelandic: tannlæknir (is) m Ido: dentisto (io) Indonesian: dokter gigi (id) Irish: fiaclóir m Italian: dentista (it) m or f Japanese: 歯医者 (ja) (はいしゃ, haisha), 歯科医 (ja) (しかい, shikai), 歯科医師 (ja) (しかいし, shikaishi) Kazakh: тіс дәрігері (tıs därıgerı), тіс технигі (tıs texnigı) Khmer: ពេទ្យធ្មេញ (pɛɛt tmɨɲ) Khoekhoe: ǁgûǀaedī-aob Korean: 치과의사(齒科醫師) (chigwauisa) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دان ساز (dan saz) Lao: ໝໍປົວແຂ້ວ (mǭ pūa khǣu) Latvian: zobārsts m, zobārste f, stomatologs m, stomatoloģe f Lithuanian: dantų gydytojas Macedonian: забар m (zabar), заболе́кар m (zabolékar), стоматоло́г m (stomatológ) Malay: doktor gigi (ms) Maori: tākuta niho Mongolian: шүдний эмч (šüdnii emč) Norman: dentiste m or f Norwegian: Bokmål: tannlege (no) m Nynorsk: tannlege m Occitan: dentista (oc) m or f Ojibwe: wiibidaa-mashkikiiwinini Ottoman Turkish: دیشجی (dişci) Papiamentu: dentista Persian: دندان‌پزشک (fa) (dandân-pezešk), (also: dental technician) دندانساز (fa) (dandân-sâz) Polish: dentysta (pl) m, dentystka (pl) f Portuguese: dentista (pt) m or f Romanian: dentist (ro) m, dentistă (ro) f Russian: зубно́й врач (ru) m (zubnój vrač), данти́ст (ru) m (dantíst), стомато́лог (ru) m (stomatólog), зубно́й (ru) m (zubnój) (colloquial) Sanskrit: दन्तवैद्य m (dantavaidya) Scottish Gaelic: fiaclaire m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: зу̀ба̄р m Roman: zùbār (sh) m Slovak: zubár m, zubárka f Slovene: zobozdravnik (sl) m, zobozdravníca f Spanish: dentista (es) m or f, odontólogo (es) m Swahili: daktari wa meno Swedish: tandläkare (sv) Tagalog: dentista (tl) Tahitian: taote niho Tajik: дандонпизишк (dandonpizišk) Telugu: దంతవైద్యుడు (te) (dantavaidyuḍu) Thai: ทันตแพทย์ (th) (tan-dtà-pɛ̂ɛt), หมอฟัน (th) (mɔ̌ɔ-fan) Turkish: diş tabibi (tr), diş hekimi (tr), dişçi (tr), diş doktoru (tr) Turkmen: diş doktory Ukrainian: зубни́й лі́кар m (zubnýj líkar), данти́ст m (dantýst) Urdu: ڈینٹسٹ m (ḍeṇṭisṭ), دندان ساز m (dandān sāz) Vietnamese: thầy thuốc chữa răng, nha sĩ (vi), bác sĩ nha khoa Volapük: (♂♀) tutisanavan (vo), (♂) tutihisanavan, (♀) tutijisanavan Welsh: deintydd (cy) West Frisian: toskedokter Yiddish: צאָנדאָקטער m (tsondokter) Zulu: udokotela wamazinyo (zu)

See also

• orthodontics
• toothpuller

Anagrams

• distent, stinted

Dutch

Etymology

From French dentiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛnˈtɪst/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: den‧tist

Noun

dentist m (plural dentisten, diminutive dentistje n, feminine dentiste)

1. dentist

Synonyms

• tandarts

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dentiste, German Dentist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /denˈtist/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

dentist m (plural dentiști, feminine equivalent dentistă)

1. dentist

   Synonyms: stomatolog, odontoiatru

Declension

Declension of dentist

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	dentist	dentistul		dentiști	dentiștii
genitive-dative	dentist	dentistului		dentiști	dentiștilor
vocative	dentistule			dentiștilor

Derived terms

• dentistică

Related terms

• dinte

Further reading

• “dentist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025