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)

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

Derived terms

• electric toothbrush
• ionic toothbrush
• nature's toothbrush
• power toothbrush
• toothbrush moustache
• toothbrush mustache
• toothbrush tree

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)

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.