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A toothbrush.
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”).
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtuːθ.bɹʌʃ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtuθ.bɹʌʃ/
toothbrush (plural toothbrushes)
- A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth. [from 17th c.]
- 1656, John Tradescant, Muſæum Tradefcantianum: OR, A COLLECTION OF RARITIES. PRESERVED At South-Lambeth neer London[1], page 53:
A Turkiſh tooth-bruſh
- 1656, John Tradescant, Muſæum Tradefcantianum: OR, A COLLECTION OF RARITIES. PRESERVED At South-Lambeth neer London[1], page 53:
- electric toothbrush
- ionic toothbrush
- nature's toothbrush
- power toothbrush
- toothbrush moustache
- toothbrush mustache
- toothbrush tree
brush for cleaning the teeth and tongue
- Afrikaans: tandeborsel
- Ainu: ニマキシルシルㇷ゚ (nimaki-shiru-shirup)
- Albanian: furçë dhëmbësh f
- Arabic: فُرْشَاة أَسْنَان f (furšāt ʔasnān)
- Armenian: ատամի խոզանակ (atami xozanak)
- Azerbaijani: diş fırçası
- Belarusian: зубна́я шчо́тка f (zubnája ščótka)
- Bengali: টুথব্রাশ (bn) (ṭuthobraś)
- Bikol:
Central Bikol: sipilyo - Breton: broust-dent (br) m
- Bulgarian: че́тка за зъ́́би f (čétka za zǎ́́bi), че́тка за зъби́ f (čétka za zǎbí)
- 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)
Hokkien: 齒抿仔 / 齿抿仔 (zh-min-nan) (khí-bín-á), 齒抿 / 齿抿 (khí-bín, khí-bián)
Mandarin: 牙刷 (zh) (yáshuā) - Circassian:
West Circassian: цэлъэкӏ (cɛlˢɛkʼ) - Czech: zubní kartáček m
- Danish: tandbørste (da) c
- 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
- Gujarati: ટૂથબ્રશ n (ṭūthabraś)
- Hebrew: מִבְרֶשֶׁת שִׁנַּיִם (he) f (mivréshet shináyim)
- Hindi: टूथब्रश (ṭūthabraś), दाँत का बुरुश m (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)
- Kapampangan: sipan, sipilyu
- Kazakh: тіс щеткасы (tıs şetkasy), тіс қылшағы (tıs qylşağy)
- Khmer: ច្រាសដុសធ្មេញ (craah doh thmɨñ)
- Korean: 칫솔 (ko) (chitsol)
- Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: rineka diranan, firça diranan - Kyrgyz: тиш щеткасы (tiş şcetkası)
- 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
- Māori: taitai niho, paraihe niho
- Mohawk: iontenawirohareʼtáhkhwa
- Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шүдний сойз (šüdnii sojz) - Navajo: awooʼ bee yichʼiishí
- Norman: brînge à dents f
- Norwegian:
Bokmål: tannbørste (no) m
Nynorsk: tannkost m, tannbørste m - Oromo: rigaa
- Pashto: مسواک m (moswāk), غاښ موښی m (ǧāẍ muẍay), کنځه f (kanja)
- Persian:
Dari: بُرْسِ دَنْدَان (burs-i dandān), مِسْوَاک (miswāk)
Iranian Persian: مِسْواک (mesvâk) - Polish: szczoteczka do zębów (pl) f
- Portuguese: escova de dentes f
- Romanian: periuță de dinți f
- Romansh: barschun da dents m
- Russian: зубна́я щётка f (zubnája ščótka)
- Sami:
Northern Sami: bátnegusta - Scottish Gaelic: bruis-fhiaclan f
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: четкица за зубе f
Latin: četkica za zube (sh) 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 (čütka-yi dandonšüy)
- Thai: แปรงสีฟัน (th) (bprɛɛng-sǐi-fan)
- Tibetan: སོ་ཁྲུ (so khru)
- Turkish: diş fırçası (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: دیش فرچهسی (diş fırçası) - Turkmen: diş çotgasy
- Ukrainian: зубна́ щі́тка f (zubná ščítka)
- Urdu: ٹُوتھ بُرَش (ur) (ṭūth buraś)
- Uyghur: چىش چوتكىسى (chish chotkisi)
- Uzbek: tish choʻtkasi
- Vietnamese: bàn chải đánh răng (vi), bàn chải (vi) (contextual)
- Volapük: tutikef (vo)
- Welsh: brwsh dannedd
- Yiddish: ציינבערשטל n (tseynbershtl)
- Zhuang: ngazcat
toothbrush (third-person singular simple present toothbrushes, present participle toothbrushing, simple past and past participle toothbrushed)
- (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.
- 1997, Matthew Remski, Dying for Veronica: