Tom is an orientalist.
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Orientalist
//ˌɔɹiˈɛntəlɪst//
Synonyms for "orientalist"
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29 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُسْتَشْرِق noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Armenian
1 entries- արևելագետ noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- şərqşünas noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Catalan
1 entries- orientalista noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Czech
1 entries- orientalista noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Danish
1 entries- orientalist noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Finnish
1 entries- orientalisti noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
French
1 entries- orientaliste noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
German
2 entries- Orientalist noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
- Orientalistin noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Hindi
3 entries- प्राच्यविद् noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
- प्राच्यविद्याविद् noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
- प्राच्यवेत्ता noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Hungarian
1 entries- orientalista noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Italian
1 entries- orientalista noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- orientalist noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- orientalist noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Persian
1 entries- شرقشناس noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Portuguese
1 entries- orientalista noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Romanian
1 entries- orientalist noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Russian
2 entries- восто́чник noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
- востокове́д noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Spanish
1 entries- orientalista noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Swedish
1 entries- orientalist noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Tajik
1 entries- шарқшинос noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Turkish
3 entries- doğubilimci noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
- oryantalist noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
- şarkiyatçı noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Uzbek
1 entries- sharqshunos noun (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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