orientalist

English

Etymology

oriental + -ist

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌɔɹiˈɛntəlɪst/

Noun

orientalist (plural orientalists)

  1. A person (especially a scholar) 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.

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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
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