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English
Etymology
oriental + -ist
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
Alternative forms
Translations
a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French orientaliste.
Noun
orientalist m (plural orientaliști)
- orientalist
Declension
Declension of orientalist
Swedish
Noun
orientalist c
- an orientalist
Declension