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orientalist en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌɔɹiˈɛntəlɪst/ (US)
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Etymology

Etymology tree English oriental Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō 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.

Meanings

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

Forms

orientalist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌɔɹiˈɛntəlɪst/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English oriental Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō 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.

Meanings

1. (dated) A scholar who studies the Orient; a person interested in the Orient.
   • 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. 1935, Iris Esther Robertson Sells, Matthew Arnold and France, London: Cambridge University Press, page 67:
   • 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.
   • 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. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 27:
   • 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.” 2007 March 14, Christopher Hitchens, “East is East”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:

Forms

Relateds

oriental · orientalism

Translations (29)

fr orientaliste (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · ru востокове́д (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · az şərqşünas (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · tr oryantalist (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · hy արևելագետ (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · ca orientalista (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · nb orientalist (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · ro orientalist (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · uz sharqshunos (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · it orientalista (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · pt orientalista (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · tr doğubilimci (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · hi प्राच्यवेत्ता (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · hi प्राच्यविद् (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · hu orientalista (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · hi प्राच्यविद्याविद् (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · fi orientalisti (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · ar مُسْتَشْرِق (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · ru восто́чник (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · cs orientalista (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · tr şarkiyatçı (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · de Orientalist (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · de Orientalistin (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · es orientalista (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · tg шарқшинос (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · sv orientalist (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · fa شرقشناس (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · da orientalist (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient) · nn orientalist (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient)