English
Toothbrush
Noun
toothbrush (plural toothbrushes)
- A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.
Derived terms
Translations
brush for cleaning the teeth and tongue
- Adyghe: цэлъэкӏаъэ (căłăč̣̍ā”ă)
- Afrikaans: tandeborsel
- Albanian: furçë dhëmbësh f
- Arabic: فُرْشَاة أَسْنَان f (furšāt ʾasnān)
- Armenian: ատամի խոզանակ (atami xozanak)
- Azeri: diş fırçası
- Belarusian: зубна́я шчо́тка f (zubnája ščótka)
- Bengali: টুথব্রাশ (ṭuthôbraś)
- Bulgarian: че́тка за зъ̀би f (čétka za zǎ̀bi)
- Burmese: သွားပွတ်တံ (my) (swa:pwattam)
- Catalan: raspallet de les dents m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 牙刷 (ngaa4 caat3⁻2, ngaa4 caat3)
- Hakka: 牙搓仔 (ngà-chho-é)
- Mandarin: 牙刷 (zh) (yáshuā)
- Min Nan: 齒抿仔 (zh-min-nan), 齿抿仔 (khí-bín-á), 齒抿, 齿抿 (khí-bín, khí-bián)
- Czech: zubní kartáček m
- Danish: tandbørste (da)
- Daur: яашваас (jaašvaas)
- Dutch: tandenborstel (nl) 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)
- Hebrew: מִבְרֶשֶׁת שִׁנַּיִם (he) f (mivreshet shinayim)
- Hindi: टूथब्रश (ṭūthabraś), दाँत का बुरुश (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 (はブラシ, haburashi)
- Kazakh: мәсуек (mäswek), масуақ (maswaq)
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Verb
toothbrush (third-person singular simple present toothbrushes, present participle toothbrushing, simple past and past participle toothbrushed)
- (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.