orientalist

== English == === Alternative forms === Orientalist === Etymology === From oriental + -ist. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˌɔɹiˈɛntəlɪst/ === Adjective === orientalist (comparative more orientalist, superlative most orientalist) (dated, art, architecture, literature) Of the West, to take in aspects of the East; pertaining to the representational tendency orientalism. === Noun === orientalist (plural orientalists) (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. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === literations, natrosilite, relationist == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French orientaliste. === Noun === orientalist m (plural orientaliști) orientalist ==== Declension ==== == Swedish == === Noun === orientalist c an orientalist ==== Declension ====