English
Etymology
From tooth + paste. Compare Saterland Frisian Tuskepasta (“toothpaste”), West Frisian toskpoetserguod (“toothpaste”), Dutch tandpasta (“toothpaste”), German Zahnpasta, Zahnpaste (“toothpaste”), Danish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Swedish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Icelandic tannkrem (“toothpaste”).
Pronunciation
Noun
toothpaste (countable and uncountable, plural toothpastes)
- A paste, normally used with a toothbrush, for cleaning the teeth.
Derived terms
Translations
paste for cleaning the teeth
- Afrikaans: tandepasta
- Albanian: pastë dhëmbësh f, kolinoz m
- Arabic: مَعْجُون الأَسْنَان m (maʕjūn al-ʔasnān)
- Armenian: ատամի մածուկ (atami macuk)
- Azerbaijani: diş pastası, diş məcunu
- Bashkir: теш пастаһы (teş pastahı)
- Belarusian: зубна́я па́ста f (zubnája pásta)
- Bengali: টুথপেস্ট (ṭuthopesṭ)
- Bulgarian: па́ста за зъ́би f (pásta za zǎ́bi)
- Burmese: သွားတိုက်ဆေး (my) (swa:tuikhce:)
- Catalan: pasta de dents f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 牙膏 (ngaa4 gou1)
- Eastern Min: 牙膏 (ngāi-gŏ̤)
- Hakka: 牙膏 (ngà-kâu)
- Hokkien: 齒膏 / 齿膏 (zh-min-nan) (khí-ko), 牙膏 (gê-ko)
- Mandarin: 牙膏 (zh) (yágāo)
- Wu: 牙膏 (6nga-kau)
- Chuvash: шӑл пасти (šăl p̬asti)
- Czech: zubní pasta (cs) f
- Danish: tandpasta (da) c
- Daur: яагау (jaagau)
- Dutch: tandpasta (nl) m
- Elfdalian: tannkrem m
- Esperanto: dentopasto
- Estonian: hambapasta (et)
- Faroese: tannkrem n
- Finnish: hammastahna (fi)
- French: dentifrice (fr) m, pâte à dents (fr) f (Canadian French)
- Galician: pasta dentífrica f
- Georgian: კბილის პასტა (ḳbilis ṗasṭa)
- German: Zahnpasta (de) f, Zahncreme (de) f, Zahncrème (de), Zahnpaste (de)
- Greek: οδοντόκρεμα (el) f (odontókrema), οδοντόπαστα (el) f (odontópasta)
- Greenlandic: kigutit qaqorsaataat, tandpasta
- Gujarati: ટૂથપેસ્ટ f (ṭūthpesṭ)
- Haitian Creole: pat, kòlgat
- Hebrew: משחת שיניים/מִשְׁחַת שִׁנַּיִם (he) f (mishchát shináyim)
- Hindi: दन्तमंजन m (dantamañjan), दंतमंजन m (dantmañjan), टूथपेस्ट m (ṭūthpesṭ)
- Hungarian: fogkrém (hu)
- Icelandic: tannkrem (is) n
- Ido: dentifrico (io)
- Indonesian: pasta gigi (id), tapal gigi (id), odol (id)
- Irish: taos fiacla m
- Italian: dentifricio (it)
- Japanese: 歯磨き粉 (ja) (はみがきこ, hamigakiko), 練り歯磨き (ja) (ねりはみがき, nerihamigaki), 歯磨剤 (ja) (しまざい, shimazai)
- Kazakh: тіс пастасы (tıs pastasy)
- Khmer: ថ្នាំដុសធ្មេញ (thnam doh thmɨñ)
- Korean: 치약(齒藥) (ko) (chiyak)
- Kyrgyz: тиш пастасы (tiş pastası)
- Ladin: pasta dai dënz f
- Lao: ຢາສີຟັນ (yā sī fan)
- Latin: dentifricium n
- Latvian: zobu pasta f
- Lithuanian: dantų pasta f
- Lü: ᦓᧄᧉᦊᦱᦉᦲᦵᦃᧁᧉ (nam²ẏaaṡiiẋew²)
- Luxembourgish: Zännseef (lb) f
- Macedonian: забна паста f (zabna pasta)
- Malay: ubat gigi (ms)
- Maltese: tutpejst m
- Maori: pēniho
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: шүдний оо (šüdnii oo), яагуу (jaaguu) (Inner Mongolia)
- Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠳᠦ ᠶᠢᠨ
ᠣ᠋ (sidü-yin o), ᠶᠠᠭᠣᠦ (yaɣoü)
- Navajo: awooʼ bił yichʼiishí, awooʼ bił yichʼiishí bikʼi nátłohí
- Norman: pâte à dents f
- Northern Sami: bátnegealas
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tannkrem (no) m, tannpasta (no) m
- Nynorsk: tannkrem m, tannpasta m
- Ottoman Turkish: دیش معجونی (diş maʼcunu)
- Pashto: غاښ لېټۍ f (ǧāx̌ leṭǝy)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: خَمیر دَنْدان (xamir dandân)
- Polish: pasta do zębów (pl) f
- Portuguese: pasta de dente f, creme dental m, pasta de dentes f
- Romanian: pastă de dinți (ro)
- Romansch: pasta da dents f
- Russian: зубна́я па́ста (ru) f (zubnája pásta)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: зубна паста f, паста за зубе f
- Roman: zubna pasta f, pasta za zube f
- Slovak: zubná pasta f
- Slovene: zobna pasta (sl) f
- Spanish: crema dental f, pasta de dientes f, dentífrico (es) m, dentrífico m (vernacular, Latin America), dentrífrico m (nonstandard), kolinos m (Bolivia), kolynos m (South America)
- Swahili: dawa ya meno
- Swedish: tandkräm (sv) c
- Tagalog: pasta sa ngipin, pasimada, kremang pansipilyo
- Tajik: хамираи дандон (xamira-yi dandon)
- Tamil: பற்பசை (ta) (paṟpacai)
- Tatar: теш пастасы (teş pastası)
- Thai: ยาสีฟัน (th) (yaa-sǐi-fan)
- Tibetan: སོ་སྨན (so sman)
- Tok Pisin: kolget, marasin bilong klinim tit, sop bilong tit
- Turkish: diş macunu
- Turkmen: diş pastasy
- Ukrainian: зубна́ па́ста f (zubná pásta)
- Urdu: ٹُوتھ پیسْٹ (ur) m (ṭūth pesṭ)
- Uyghur: چىش پاستىسى (chish pastisi), ياگاۋ (yagaw), ياگاو (yagao)
- Uzbek: tish pastasi
- Vietnamese: kem đánh răng, thuốc đánh răng
- Volapük: tutakrem (vo)
- Welsh: past dannedd (cy) m
- West Frisian: toskpasta c, toskeguod n
- Yakut: тиис паастата (tiis paastata)
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