orientalist
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
- 1684, George Bright, preface to The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D.
Alternative forms
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[edit]a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient
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[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French orientaliste.
Noun
[edit]orientalist m (plural orientaliști)
Declension
[edit]Declension of orientalist
singular | plural | |||
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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
[edit]Noun
[edit]orientalist c
- an orientalist
Declension
[edit]Declension of orientalist
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