"orientalist" meaning in English

See orientalist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌɔɹiˈɛntəlɪst/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-orientalist.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-orientalist.wav Forms: orientalists [plural]
Etymology: From oriental + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|oriental|ist}} oriental + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} orientalist (plural orientalists)
  1. A scholar who studies the Orient; a person interested in the Orient. Synonyms: Orientalist Translations (a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient): مُسْتَشْرِق (mustašriq) [masculine] (Arabic), արևելագետ (arewelaget) (Armenian), şərqşünas (Azerbaijani), orientalista (Catalan), orientalista [masculine] (Czech), orientalist [common-gender] (Danish), orientaliste [feminine, masculine] (French), Orientalist [masculine] (German), Orientalistin [feminine] (German), प्राच्यविद् (prācyavid) [masculine] (Hindi), प्राच्यविद्याविद् (prācyavidyāvid) [masculine] (Hindi), प्राच्यवेत्ता (prācyavettā) [masculine] (Hindi), orientalista (Hungarian), orientalist [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), orientalist [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), شرقشناس (šarq-šenâs) (Persian), orientalist [masculine] (Romanian), востокове́д (vostokovéd) [masculine] (Russian), восто́чник (vostóčnik) [colloquial, masculine] (Russian), orientalist [common-gender] (Swedish), шарқшинос (šarqšinos) (Tajik), oryantalist (Turkish), sharqshunos (Uzbek)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.