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”).
toothbrush (plural toothbrushes)
- A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.
brush for cleaning the teeth and tongue
- Adyghe: цэлъэкӏаъэ (cɛlˢɛkʼaɛ)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Maori: taitai niho, paraihe niho
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: шүдний сойз (šüdnii sojz)
- Navajo: awooʼ bee yichʼiishí
- Norman: brînge à dents f
- Northern Sami: bátnegusta
- 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, مِسْوَاک (fa) (miswāk)
- Iranian Persian: مِسْواک (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 (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)
- Volapük: tutikef (vo)
- Welsh: brwsh dannedd
- Yiddish: ציינבערשטל n (tseynbershtl)
- Zhuang: ngazcat
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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.
