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A toothbrush.

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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/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

toothbrush (plural toothbrushes)

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

Derived terms

Translations

brush for cleaning the teeth and tongue

Adyghe: цэлъэкӏ (cɛlˢɛkʼ)
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 caat^3-2, 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 (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
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

Verb

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.

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 ===Pronunciation===
 * {{IPA|en|/ˈtuːθbɹʌʃ/}}
-* {{audio|en|en-us-toothbrush.ogg|Audio (US)}}
+* {{audio|en|en-us-toothbrush.ogg|a=US}}
 ===Noun===
 {{en-noun}}
-# A [[brush]], used with [[toothpaste]], for [[cleaning]] the [[teeth]].
+# {{senseid|en|Q134205}}A [[brush]], used with [[toothpaste]], for [[cleaning]] the [[tooth|teeth]].
 ====Derived terms====
+{{col|en|nature's toothbrush|toothbrush tree|electric toothbrush|ionic toothbrush|power toothbrush|toothbrush mustache|toothbrush moustache}}
-* {{l|en|toothbrush moustache}}
 ====Translations====
 {{trans-top|brush for cleaning the teeth and tongue}}
-* Adyghe: {{t|ady|цэлъэкӏаъэ|sc=Cyrl}}
+* Adyghe: {{t|ady|цэлъэкӏ}}
 * Afrikaans: {{t|af|tandeborsel}}
 * Ainu: {{t|ain|ニマキシルシルㇷ゚|tr=nimaki-shiru-shirup}}
 * Albanian: {{t|sq|furçë dhëmbësh|f}}
-* Arabic: {{t|ar|فُرْشَاة أَسْنَان|f|tr=furšāt ʾasnān}}
+* Arabic: {{t|ar|فُرْشَاة أَسْنَان|f|tr=furšāt ʔasnān}}
 * Armenian: {{t|hy|ատամի խոզանակ}}
 * Azerbaijani: {{t|az|diş fırçası}}
-* Belarusian: {{t|be|зубна́я шчо́тка|f|sc=Cyrl}}
+* Belarusian: {{t|be|зубна́я шчо́тка|f}}
-* Bengali: {{t|bn|টুথব্রাশ|sc=Beng}}
+* Bengali: {{t+|bn|টুথব্রাশ}}
 * Breton: {{t+|br|broust-dent|m}}
-* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|че́тка за зъ́би|f}}
+* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|[[че́тка за зъ́́би]]|f}}, {{t|bg|[[че́тка за зъби́]]|f}}
-* Burmese: {{t+|my|သွားပွတ်တံ|sc=Mymr}}
+* Burmese: {{t+|my|သွားပွတ်တံ}}
 * Catalan: {{t|ca|raspall de dents|m}}, {{t+|ca|raspallet|m}}, {{t|ca|raspallet de les dents|m}} {{qualifier|formal, rarer}}
 * Chinese:
-*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|牙刷|tr=ngaa4 caat3-2, ngaa4 caat3|sc=Hani}}
+*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|牙刷|tr=ngaa4 caat3-2, ngaa4 caat3}}
-*: Hakka: {{t|hak|牙搓仔|tr=ngà-chho-é|sc=Hani}}
+*: Hakka: {{t|hak|牙搓仔|tr=ngà-chho-é}}
+*: Hokkien: {{t+|nan-hbl|齒抿仔|tr=khí-bín-á}}, {{t|nan-hbl|齒抿|tr=khí-bín, khí-bián}}
-*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|牙刷|tr=yáshuā|sc=Hani}}
+*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|牙刷}}
-*: Min Nan: {{t+|nan|齒抿仔|sc=Hani}}, {{t|nan|齿抿仔|tr=khí-bín-á|sc=Hani}}, {{t|nan|齒抿|sc=Hani}}, {{t|nan|齿抿|tr=khí-bín, khí-bián|sc=Hani}}
 * Czech: {{t|cs|zubní kartáček|m}}
-* Danish: {{t+|da|tandbørste}}
+* Danish: {{t+|da|tandbørste|c}}
 * Daur: {{t|dta|яашваас|tr=jaašvaas}}
 * Dolgan: {{t|dlg|тиис һуунар}}
@@ Line 54: / Line 54: @@
 * Greek: {{t+|el|οδοντόβουρτσα|f}}
 * Greenlandic: {{t|kl|kigutinut saligut}}
+* Gujarati: {{t|gu|ટૂથબ્રશ|n}}
 * Hebrew: {{t+|he|מִבְרֶשֶׁת שִׁנַּיִם|f|tr=mivréshet shináyim}}
-* Hindi: {{t|hi|टूथब्रश|sc=Deva}}, {{t|hi|दाँत का बुरुश|sc=Deva}}
+* Hindi: {{t|hi|टूथब्रश}}, {{t|hi|दाँत का बुरुश|m}}
 * Hungarian: {{t+|hu|fogkefe}}
 * Icelandic: {{t+|is|tannbursti|m}}
@@ Line 63: / Line 64: @@
 * Italian: {{t+|it|spazzolino da denti|m}}
 * Japanese: {{t+|ja|歯ブラシ|tr=はブラシ, haburashi}}
-* Kazakh: {{t|kk|тіс щёткасы}}, {{t|kk|тіс қылшағы}}
+* Kapampangan: {{t|pam|sipan}}, {{t|pam|sipilyu}}
+* Kazakh: {{t|kk|тіс щеткасы}}, {{t|kk|тіс қылшағы}}
 * Khmer: {{t|km|ច្រាសដុសធ្មេញ}}
 * Korean: {{t+|ko|칫솔}}
+* Kurdish:
-* Kyrgyz: {{t|ky|тиш щеткасы|sc=Cyrl}}
+*: Northern Kurdish: {{t|kmr|rineka diranan}}, {{t|kmr|firça diranan}}
-{{trans-mid}}
+* Kyrgyz: {{t|ky|тиш щеткасы}}
 * Lao: {{t+|lo|ໄມ້ຖູແຂ້ວ}}, {{t|lo|ແປງສີຟັນ}}
 * Latvian: {{t|lv|zobu suka|f}}, {{t|lv|zobubirste}}, {{t|lv|zobu birste|f}}
 * Lithuanian: {{t|lt|dantų šepetukas}}
 * Luxembourgish: {{t+|lb|Zännbiischt|f}}
-* Macedonian: {{t|mk|четка за заби|f}}
+* Macedonian: {{t|mk|[[четка]] за [[заб|заби]]|f}}
 * Malay: {{t|ms|berus gigi}}
 * Maltese: {{t|mt|xkupilja tas-snien|f}}
-* Maori: {{t|mi|taitai niho }}, {{t|mi|paraihe niho}}
+* Maori: {{t|mi|taitai niho}}, {{t|mi|paraihe niho}}
-* Mongolian: {{t|mn|шүдний сойз|sc=Cyrl}}
+* Mongolian:
+*: Cyrillic: {{t|mn|шүдний сойз}}
 * Navajo: {{t|nv|awooʼ bee yichʼiishí}}
 * Norman: {{t|nrf|brînge à dents|f}}
 * Northern Sami: {{t|se|bátnegusta}}
 * Norwegian:
-*: Bokmål: {{t+|no|tannbørste}}
+*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|tannbørste|m}}
-*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|tannkost}}, {{t|nn|tannbørste|m}}
+*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|tannkost|m}}, {{t|nn|tannbørste|m}}
 * Oromo: {{t|om|rigaa}}
-* Persian: {{t+|fa|مسواک|tr=mesvâk}}
+* Pashto: {{t|ps|مسواک|m|tr=moswāk}}, {{t|ps|غاښ موښی|m|tr=ǧāẍ muẍay}}, {{t|ps|کنځه|f|tr=kanja}}
+* Persian:
+*: Dari: {{t|prs|بُرْسِ دَنْدَان}}, {{t|prs|مِسْوَاک}}
+*: Iranian Persian: {{t|fa-ira|مِسْواک}}
 * Polish: {{t+|pl|szczoteczka do zębów|f}}
 * Portuguese: {{t|pt|escova de dentes|f}}
 * Romanian: {{t|ro|periuță de dinți|f}}
 * Romansch: {{t|rm|barschun da dents|m}}
-* Russian: {{t+|ru|зубна́я щётка|f}}
+* Russian: {{t|ru|зубна́я щётка|f}}
 * Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|bruis-fhiaclan|f}}
 * Serbo-Croatian:
@@ Line 104: / Line 111: @@
 * Tagalog: {{t|tl|sipilyo}}
 * Tajik: {{t|tg|чӯткаи дандоншӯй}}
-* Thai: {{t|th|แปรงสีฟัน}}
+* Thai: {{t+|th|แปรงสีฟัน}}
 * Tibetan: {{t|bo|སོ་ཁྲུ}}
 * Turkish: {{t+|tr|diş fırçası}}
+*: Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|دیش فرچه‌سی|tr=diş fırçası}}
 * Turkmen: {{t|tk|diş çotgasy}}
-* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|зубна́ щі́тка|f|sc=Cyrl}}
+* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|зубна́ щі́тка|f}}
+* Urdu: {{t+|ur|ٹُوتھ بُرَش}}
 * Uyghur: {{t|ug|چىش چوتكىسى}}
 * Uzbek: {{t|uz|tish choʻtkasi}}
-* Vietnamese: {{t|vi|bàn chải đánh răng}}
+* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|bàn chải đánh răng}}
 * Volapük: {{t+|vo|tutikef}}
 * Welsh: {{t|cy|brwsh dannedd}}
-* Yiddish: {{t|yi|ציינבערשטל}}
+* Yiddish: {{t|yi|ציינבערשטל|n}}
 * Zhuang: {{t|za|ngazcat}}
 {{trans-bottom}}
@@ Line 122: / Line 131: @@
 # {{lb|en|transitive}} To clean or scrub with a toothbrush.
-#* '''1997''', Matthew Remski, ''Dying for Veronica''
+#* {{quote-text|en|year=1997|author=Matthew Remski|title=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.
+|passage=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''
+#* {{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=Iceberg Slim|title=Trick Baby
-#*: I '''toothbrushed''' the stale rum stink from my mouth and stared at myself in the cabinet mirror.
+|passage=I '''toothbrushed''' the stale rum stink from my mouth and stared at myself in the cabinet mirror.}}
-[[Category:English endocentric compounds]]
+{{cln|en|endocentric compounds}}
-[[Category:en:Dental hygiene]]
+{{C|en|Dental hygiene|Toiletries}}
-[[Category:en:Toiletries]]