orientalist

English

Alternative forms

• Orientalist

Etymology

Etymology tree

English oriental

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English orientalist

From oriental + -ist.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɔɹiˈɛntəlɪst/

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Adjective

orientalist (comparative more orientalist, superlative most orientalist)

1. (dated, art, architecture, literature) Of the West, to take in aspects of the East; pertaining to the representational tendency orientalism.

Noun

orientalist (plural orientalists)

1. (dated, art, architecture, literature) A scholar who studies the Orient; a person interested in the Orient.
   • 1684, George Bright, preface to The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D.

     Which is rendred somewhat more probable by that very learned Orientalist Dr. Pocok, who tells us the Arabick verb Hausch answering to the Hebrew חיש signifies three things, viz. to hast, to fear, to be ashamed.

   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 27:

     If, however, Orientalists be right in their interpretation of the name of Artaxerxes' queen, Parisatis, as Pari-zadeh (Peri-born), the Peri must be coeval with the religion of Zoroaster.

   • 1935, Iris Esther Robertson Sells, Matthew Arnold and France, London: Cambridge University Press, page 67:

     Moreover, among the group that was associated with the short-lived Institut historique, of which Senancour was a member from 1834 to 1840, was Eugène Burnouf, the great orientalist, to whom much of the responsibility for the revived interest in orientalism of the mid-nineteenth century must be attributed.

   • 2007 March, Christopher Hitchens, “East is East”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The splendid nineteenth-century Oxford Orientalist David Margoliouth (described by Irwin as having “the kind of beautiful mind that could see patterns where none existed”) was perhaps not so eccentric when he claimed to notice analogies “between the founder of Islam and Brigham Young, the founder of the Mormon faith.”

Related terms

• oriental
• orientalism

Translations

a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient

• Arabic: مُسْتَشْرِق m (mustašriq)
• Armenian: արևելագետ (hy) (arewelaget)
• Azerbaijani: şərqşünas
• Catalan: orientalista
• Czech: orientalista m
• Danish: orientalist c
• Finnish: orientalisti
• French: orientaliste (fr) m or f
• German: Orientalist (de) m, Orientalistin (de) f
• Hindi: प्राच्यविद् m (prācyavid), प्राच्यविद्याविद् m (prācyavidyāvid), प्राच्यवेत्ता m (prācyavettā)
• Hungarian: orientalista (hu)
• Italian: orientalista (it) m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: orientalist m

  Nynorsk: orientalist m

• Persian: شرق‌شناس (fa) (šarq-šenâs)
• Portuguese: orientalista m or f
• Romanian: orientalist (ro) m
• Russian: востокове́д (ru) m (vostokovéd), восто́чник (ru) m (vostóčnik) (colloquial)
• Spanish: orientalista m or f
• Swedish: orientalist (sv) c
• Tajik: шарқшинос (šarqšinos)
• Turkish: oryantalist (tr), şarkiyatçı (tr), doğubilimci
• Uzbek: sharqshunos (uz)

Anagrams

• literations, natrosilite, relationist

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French orientaliste.

Noun

orientalist m (plural orientaliști)

1. orientalist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	orientalist	orientalistul	orientaliști	orientaliștii
genitive-dative	orientalist	orientalistului	orientaliști	orientaliștilor
vocative	orientalistule		orientaliștilor

Swedish

Noun

orientalist c

1. an orientalist

Declension

Declension of orientalist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	orientalist	orientalists
	definite	orientalisten	orientalistens
plural	indefinite	orientalister	orientalisters
	definite	orientalisterna	orientalisternas