orientalist

From oriental +‎ -ist.

orientalist (comparative more orientalist, superlative most orientalist)

orientalist (plural orientalists)

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.

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
Finnish: orientalisti
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), şarkiyatçı (tr), doğubilimci
Uzbek: sharqshunos (uz)

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	orientalist	orientalistul	orientaliști	orientaliștii
genitive-dative	orientalist	orientalistului	orientaliști	orientaliștilor
vocative	orientalistule		orientaliștilor

English