toothbrush

toothbrush

English

A toothbrush.

Etymology

From tooth +‎ brush. Compare Saterland Frisian Tuskebäärsel (“toothbrush”), West Frisian toskboarstel (“toothbrush”), Dutch tandenborstel (“toothbrush”), German Zahnbürste (“toothbrush”), Danish tandbørste (“toothbrush”), Swedish tandborste (“toothbrush”), Icelandic tannbursti (“toothbrush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːθbɹʌʃ/

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Noun

toothbrush (plural toothbrushes)

1. A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.

Derived terms

• toothbrush moustache

Translations

brush for cleaning the teeth and tongue

Adyghe: цэлъэкӏаъэ (celˢekʼaae) Afrikaans: tandeborsel Ainu: ニマキシルシルㇷ゚ (nimaki-shiru-shirup) Albanian: furçë dhëmbësh f Arabic: فُرْشَاة أَسْنَان‎ f (furšāt ʾasnān) Armenian: ատամի խոզանակ (atami xozanak) Azerbaijani: diş fırçası Belarusian: зубна́я шчо́тка f (zubnája ščótka) Bengali: টুথব্রাশ (ṭuthôbraś) Breton: broust-dent (br) m Bulgarian: че́тка за зъ́би f (čétka za zǎ́bi) Burmese: သွားပွတ်တံ (my) (swa:pwattam) Catalan: raspall de dents m, raspallet (ca) m, raspallet de les dents m (formal, rarer) Chinese: Cantonese: 牙刷 (ngaa4 caat3-2, ngaa4 caat3) Hakka: 牙搓仔 (ngà-chho-é) Mandarin: 牙刷 (zh) (yáshuā) Min Nan: 齒抿仔 (zh-min-nan), 齿抿仔 (khí-bín-á), 齒抿, 齿抿 (khí-bín, khí-bián) Czech: zubní kartáček m Danish: tandbørste (da) Daur: яашваас (jaašvaas) Dolgan: тиис һуунар Dutch: tandenborstel (nl) m Elfdalian: tannbuost m Esperanto: dentobroso Estonian: hambahari (et) Faroese: tannbust f Finnish: hammasharja (fi) French: brosse à dents (fr) f Galician: cepillo de dentes m Georgian: კბილის ჯაგრისი (ḳbilis ǯagrisi) German: Zahnbürste (de) f Greek: οδοντόβουρτσα (el) f (odontóvourtsa) Greenlandic: kigutinut saligut Hebrew: מִבְרֶשֶׁת שִׁנַּיִם‎ (he) f (mivréshet shináyim) Hindi: टूथब्रश (ṭūthabraś), दाँत का बुरुश (dā̃t kā buruś) Hungarian: fogkefe (hu) Icelandic: tannbursti (is) m Ido: dento-brosilo Indonesian: sikat gigi Irish: scuab fiacla f Italian: spazzolino da denti (it) m Japanese: 歯ブラシ (ja) (はブラシ, haburashi) Kazakh: тіс щёткасы (tıs şşetkasy), тіс қылшағы (tıs qylşağy) Khmer: ច្រាសដុសធ្មេញ (craah doh thmɨñ) Korean: 칫솔 (ko) (chitsol) Kyrgyz: тиш щеткасы (tiş şçetkası) Lao: ໄມ້ຖູແຂ້ວ (lo) (mai thū khǣu), ແປງສີຟັນ (pǣng sī fan) Latvian: zobu suka f, zobubirste, zobu birste f Lithuanian: dantų šepetukas Luxembourgish: Zännbiischt (lb) f Macedonian: четка за заби f (četka za zabi) Malay: berus gigi Maltese: xkupilja tas-snien f Maori: taitai niho, paraihe niho Mongolian: шүдний сойз (šüdnii sojz) Navajo: awooʼ bee yichʼiishí Norman: brînge à dents f Northern Sami: bátnegusta Norwegian: Bokmål: tannbørste (no) Nynorsk: tannkost, tannbørste m Oromo: rigaa Persian: مسواک‎ (fa) (mesvâk) Polish: szczoteczka do zębów (pl) f Portuguese: escova de dentes f Romanian: periuță de dinți f Romansch: barschun da dents m Russian: зубна́я щётка f (zubnája ščótka) Scottish Gaelic: bruis-fhiaclan f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: четкица за зубе f Roman: četkica za zube f Slovak: zubná kefka f Slovene: zobna krtačka f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: zubna bjerštka f, zubna šćotka f Upper Sorbian: zubna šćětka f Spanish: cepillo de dientes (es) m, escobilla de dientes f (Chile, Peru) Swahili: mswaki (sw) Swedish: tandborste (sv) c Tagalog: sipilyo Tajik: чӯткаи дандоншӯй (čütkayi dandonšüy) Thai: แปรงสีฟัน (bprɛɛng-sǐi-fan) Tibetan: སོ་ཁྲུ (so khru) Turkish: diş fırçası (tr) Turkmen: diş çotgasy Ukrainian: зубна́ щі́тка f (zubná ščítka) Uyghur: چىش چوتكىسى‎ (chish chotkisi) Uzbek: tish choʻtkasi Vietnamese: bàn chải đánh răng Volapük: tutikef (vo) Welsh: brwsh dannedd Yiddish: ציינבערשטל‎ (tseynbershtl) Zhuang: ngazcat

Verb

toothbrush (third-person singular simple present toothbrushes, present participle toothbrushing, simple past and past participle toothbrushed)

1. (transitive) To clean or scrub with a toothbrush.
   • 1997, Matthew Remski, Dying for Veronica

     In Rome, a restorer toothbrushed away some candle-grime over God's Sistine Chapel eye to reveal an eyebrow of Groucho Marx proportion.

   • 2004, Iceberg Slim, Trick Baby

     I toothbrushed the stale rum stink from my mouth and stared at myself in the cabinet mirror.