# tooth
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English tothe, toth, tooth, from Old English tōþ (“tooth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Related to tusk, more at teeth.Doublet of dent, dens, tind, and tine.
Cognate with Scots tuth, tuith (“tooth”), North Frisian toth, tos (“tooth”), Dutch tand (“tooth”), Low German Tähn (“tooth”), German Zahn (“tooth”), Danish tand (“tooth”), Swedish tand (“tooth”), Norwegian tann (“tooth”), Icelandic tönn (“tooth”), Welsh dant (“tooth”), Latin dēns (“tooth”), Lithuanian danti̇̀s (“tooth”), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús)/ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), Armenian ատամ (atam), Persian دندان (dandân), Sanskrit दत् (dát), दन्त (danta, “tooth”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: to͞oth, IPA: /tuːθ/, (uncommon) /tʊθ/
** Audio (Received Pronunciation, London):(file)
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* (General American) IPA: /tuθ/
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* (Wales (usually), Midlands (especially Birmingham)) IPA: /tʊθ/
* (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /tʉθ/
* Rhymes: -uːθ, -ʊθ
* Homophone: twoth

### Noun

tooth (plural teeth)
* A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tooth
    Hyponyms: bicuspid, canine, cuspid, incisor, premolar, molar; see also Thesaurus:tooth
* A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
    Synonym: sawtooth
* A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
* Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
    Jute has more tooth than polypropylene.
* (zoology) A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
** 1832, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, A monograph of the fluviatile bivalve shells of the river Ohio, page 43:Species XXXVI. Obliquaria bullata— (Unio bullata) […] Found at the falls of Ohio; rare; breadth almost two inches; cardinal and lamellar teeth like preceding species; apices rounded, decorticated, but not truncated
* (botany) A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
* (animation) The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
* (figurative) Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
    Synonyms: fondness, appetite, taste, palate
    I have a sweet tooth: I love sugary treats.
** 1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis:These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth
* (algebraic geometry) An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.

#### Derived terms

* acro-dermato-ungual-lacrimal-tooth syndrome
* armed to the teeth
* axle tooth
* baby tooth
* back tooth
* bigtooth
* black tooth
* bleeding tooth fungus
* Bluetooth
* bucktooth
* butter tooth
* canine tooth
* cheektooth
* cheek tooth
* clean as a hound's tooth
* colt's tooth
* corner tooth
* cracked tooth syndrome
* daggertooth
* deciduous tooth
* dog's tooth violet
* dogtooth
* dog tooth
* dog-tooth
* dogtooth
* egg tooth
* elephant's tooth
* eye tooth
* eye-tooth
* eyetooth
* fangtooth
* fight tooth and nail
* fine-tooth comb
* fine-tooth comb test
* foretooth
* front-toothless
* gagtooth
* give an eye-tooth
* hag's tooth
* hen's tooth
* hog-tooth spar
* houndstooth
* intertooth
* jelly tooth
* kiss one's teeth
* long in the tooth
* megatooth shark
* milk-tooth
* milk tooth
* mill tooth
* molar tooth
* multitooth
* old in the tooth
* old woman's tooth
* picktooth
* pivot tooth
* primary tooth
* pseudotooth
* puppytooth
* purple tooth
* rabbit tooth
* red in tooth and claw
* retooth
* sabertooth
* sabre-tooth
* salty tooth
* saw tooth
* sawtooth, saw-tooth
* scissor tooth
* shark's tooth
* silver tooth kid
* snaggletooth
* snaggle-tooth
* snaggletooth
* sour tooth
* spicy tooth
* suck one's teeth
* sweet tooth
* teethe (verb)
* temporary tooth
* toothache
* toothaching
* toothake
* tooth and claw
* tooth-and-nail
* tooth and nail
* tooth and tong
* toothbill
* tooth-billed pigeon
* toothblack
* tooth-bottle
* toothbrush
* toothbrusher
* toothcare
* toothcarp
* toothcomb
* tooth-comb
* tooth comb
* tooth decay
* toothdrawer
* tooth-drawer
* toothdrawing
* tooth duller
* tooth enamel
* toothette
* tooth fairy
* toothfish
* toothful
* tooth fungus
* toothie
* tooth key
* toothleaf
* toothless
* toothlet
* toothlike
* toothly
* toothmark
* tooth mark
* toothmug
* tooth mug
* toothmug
* tooth ornament
* tooth pad
* toothpaste
* toothpick
* toothpicker
* toothplate
* tooth powder
* toothproof
* toothpuller
* toothrow
* tooth shell
* tooth socket
* toothsome
* tooth-stainer
* tooth-to-jowl
* toothward
* toothwash
* toothwork
* toothwort
* toothy
* unitooth
* untooth
* wangtooth
* wisdom tooth
* wit tooth
* wolf tooth

#### Translations

Abau: nays
Abkhaz: ахаԥыц (axapəc)
Acehnese: gigoe
Afar: boddiná
Afrikaans: tand (af)
Ainu: ニマキ (nimaki)
Aiton: please add this translation if you can
Akan: ɛse, ɔse
Aklanon: ngipon
Albanian: dhëmb (sq), dhâm (Gheg)
Ama: i
Amharic: ጥርስ (ṭərs)
Apache:
Western Apache: iwoo (plural)
Arabic: سِنّ (ar) f (sinn)
Egyptian Arabic: سن m (senn), سنة f (senna), سنان f pl (senan)
Moroccan Arabic: سنة f (sanna)
Aragonese: dient m
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܫܢܐ c (šennā)
Jewish Aramaic: שִׁנָּא f (šinnā)
Argobba: ስን (sǝn)
Armenian: ատամ (hy) (atam), ակռա (hy) (akṙa) (Western Armenian)
Aromanian: dinti f, dinte f
Assamese: দাঁত (dãt)
Asturian: diente (ast) m, dentamen m pl
Atong (India): wa
Avar: ца (ca)
Azerbaijani: diş (az)
Balinese: gigi
Baluchi: دنتان (dantán), دتھاں
Bashkir: теш (teş)
Basque: hortz
Bau Bidayuh: jupon
Belarusian: зуб m (zub)
Bengali: দাঁত (bn) (dãt), দান্দান (bn) (dandan), দন্ত (bn) (donto), দশন (bn) (dośon), রদ (bn) (rod), দংষ্ট্র (bn) (doṅśṭro)
Bhojpuri: दांत (dānt)
Bonkiman: ŋgen
Borôro: o
Breton: dant (br) m, dent (br) pl
Brunei Bisaya: nipon
Buginese: isi
Bulgarian: зъб (bg) m (zǎb)
Burji: irka
Burmese: သွား (my) (swa:)
Buryat: шүдэ (šüde) ; шүдэн (šüden)
Butuanon: ngipon
Canela: xwa
Carpathian Rusyn: зуб m (zub)
Catalan: dent (ca) f
Cebuano: ngipon
Central Melanau: nyipen
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Cham:
Eastern Cham: please add this translation if you can
Western Cham: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: ajsi
Chechen: церг (cerg)
Chepang: साय्‍क्
Cherokee: ᎦᏅᏙᎬ (ganvdogv)
Chichewa: dzino
Chinese:
Cantonese: 牙 (ngaa$^4$)
Dungan: я (i͡a), ня (ni͡a)
Eastern Min: 牙 (ngà / ngāi)
Hakka: 牙齒 / 牙齿 (ngà-chhṳ́)
Hokkien: 喙齒 / 喙齿 (zh-min-nan) (chhùi-khí)
Mandarin: 牙齒 / 牙齿 (zh) (yáchǐ), 牙 (zh) (yá), 齒 / 齿 (zh) (chǐ)
Wu: 牙齒 / 牙齿, 牙子 ($^6$nga-tsy)
Chuukese: ngii
Chuvash: шӑл (šăl)
Coastal Kadazan: nipon
Cornish: dans
Corsican: dente (co)
Crimean Tatar: tiş
Czech: zub (cs) m
Dalmatian: diant
Danish: tand (da) c
Dargwa: цула (cula)
Darkinjung: dharra
Dhivehi: ދައިޔ (daiy)
Dolgan: тиис (tiis)
Dongxiang: shidun
Drung: sa
Dutch: tand (nl) m
Eastern Arrernte: artitye
Egyptian: (jbḥ)
Emilian: please add this translation if you can
Erzya: пей (pej)
Esperanto: dento (eo)
Estonian: hammas (et)
Even: ӣт (īt)
Evenki: иктэ (iktə)
Fala: denti
Faroese: tonn (fo) f
Fataluku: vahinu
Fijian: bati
Finnish: hammas (fi)
Franco-Provençal: dent
French: dent (fr) f
Old French: dent m
Middle French: dent f
Friulian: dint m
Gagauz: diş
Galician: dente (gl) m
Gamilaraay: yira
Garo: ওয়াগাম (wa-gam)
Georgian: კბილი (ka) (ḳbili)
German: Zahn (de) m
Gilaki: دندن (dëndan)
Gothic: 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 m (tunþus)
Greek: δόντι (el) n (dónti)
Ancient: ὀδούς m (odoús)
Greenlandic: kigut
Guaraní: tãi (gn)
Gujarati: દાંત (dā̃t)
Haitian Creole: dan
Hausa: haƙori (ha)
Hawaiian: niho
Hebrew: שֵׁן (he) f (shen)
Hindi: दाँत (hi) m (dā̃t), दान्त (hi) m (dānt), दांत (hi) (dānt)
Hungarian: fog (hu)
Hunsrik: Zaan m
Icelandic: tönn (is) f
Ido: dento (io)
Indonesian: gigi (id), danta (id)
Ingrian: hammas
Ingush: царг (carg)
Interlingua: dente
Iranun: nipan, nipen
Irish: fiacail (ga) f
Isan: แข้ว (khaew)
Istro-Romanian: dinte
Italian: dente (it) m
Japanese: 歯 (ja) (は, ha)
Javanese: untu
Jeju: 니 (ni), 니빨 (nippal)
Kabyle: tuɣmest f
Kaingang: jã
Kalmyk: шүдн (şüdn)
Kambaata: inke
Kanakanabu: anisi
Kannada: ಹಲ್ಲು (kn) (hallu)
Kanuri: timí
Kapampangan: ipan
Karachay-Balkar: тиш (tiş)
Karakalpak: tis
Kashubian: ząb
Kazakh: тіс (kk) (tıs)
Khakas: тіс (tìs)
Khamti: please add this translation if you can
Khiamniungan Naga: hóu
Khinalug: цулоз (culoz)
Khmer: ធ្មេញ (km) (thmɨñ)
Khmu: ຫຣາງ
Kikuyu: igego class 5
Kimaragang: nipon
Kituba: dinu
Klamath-Modoc: dot
Komi-Permyak: пинь (piń)
Korean: 이 (ko) (i), 니 (ko) (ni), (alternative form) 이빨 (ko) (ippal),(vulgar,mainly for beasts) 치아 (ko) (chia)
Koryak: вʼаннылӈын (wannəlŋən)
Krymchak: чыш
Kumyk: тиш (tiş)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دان (dan), ددان (ckb) (ddan)
Northern Kurdish: didan (ku) m, diran (ku) m
Kyrgyz: тиш (ky) (tiş)
Ladakhi: སོ (so)
Ladino: diente
Lakota: hi
Lao: ແຂ້ວ (lo) (khǣu), ທັນຕາ (than tā), ທົນ (thon), ກາມ (kām) (molar)
Latin: dēns (la) m
Latvian: zobs (lv) m
Laz: კიბირი (ǩibiri)
Leonese: diente
Ligurian: dénte m
Lingala: lǐno
Lithuanian: dantis (lt)
Lombard: dent (lmo) m
Lotud: nipon
Low German:
German Low German: Tähn (nds) m
Luxembourgish: Zant m
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Luganda: erinnyo
Luhya: liliino
Luo: lak
Lushootseed: dᶻədis
Macedonian: заб (mk) m (zab)
Magahi: please add this translation if you can
Maguindanao: ngipen
Maithili: please add this translation if you can
Makasae: wasi
Makasar: gigi
Malagasy: nify (mg)
Malay: gigi (ms), danta
Malayalam: പല്ല് (ml) (pallŭ), ദന്തം (ml) (dantaṁ)
Maltese: sinna f
Mambae: nifan
Manchu: ᠸᡝᡳᡥᡝ (weihe)
Mansaka: onto
Maori: niho (mi)
Mapudungun: ülnga, voro
Maranao: ngipen
Marathi: दात (mr) m (dāt)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: пӱй (püj)
Western Mari: please add this translation if you can
Mbabaram: dirra
Megleno-Romanian: dinti f
Middle English: tothe, toth
Middle High German: zan m, zant m
Minangkabau: gigih
Mingrelian: კიბირი (ḳibiri), კჷბირი (ḳəbiri)
Moksha: пей (pej)
Mon: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шүд (mn) (šüd)
Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠳᠦ (sidü)
Mwani: rino
Nahuatl: tlantli (nah)
Nanai: хуктэ (hukte)
Navajo: awooʼ
Neapolitan: dente m
Nepali: दाँत (ne) (dā̃t)
Nogai: тис (tis)
Norman: dent
North Frisian: tus m, Ter c (Sylt)
Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tann (no) m or f
Nynorsk: tann f
Nottoway-Meherrin: otosag
Nuosu: ꎐ (rry)
Occitan: dent (oc) f
Odia: ଦାନ୍ତ (or) (dānta)
Ojibwe: (my tooth) niibid
Okinawan: 歯 (はー, hā)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: зѫбъ m (zǫbŭ)
Glagolitic: ⰸⱘⰱⱏ m (zǫbŭ)
Old East Slavic: зѫбъ m (zǫbŭ)
Old English: tōþ m
Old Galician-Portuguese: dente
Old High German: zan m, zand m, zant m
Old Javanese: huntu
Old Norse: tǫnn f
Old Saxon: tand m
Oromo: ilkaan
Oroqen: iktə
Ossetian: дӕндаг (dændag)
Ottoman Turkish: دیش (diş), دندان (dendân)
Pannonian Rusyn: зуб m (zub)
Papiamentu: djente
Pashto: غاښ (ps) m (ǧāx̌)
Pennsylvania German: Zung f
Persian:
Dari: دَنْدَان (dandān)
Iranian Persian: دَنْدان (dandân), دَنْدون (dandun) (colloquial, Tehrani)
Phake: please add this translation if you can
Phu Thai: please add this translation if you can
Piedmontese: dent m
Pitjantjatjara: kaṯiṯi
Plautdietsch: Tän
Polish: ząb (pl) m
Portuguese: dente (pt) m
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਦੰਦ m (dand), ਡੰਦ m (ḍand)
Quechua: kiru (qu)
Wanka Quechua: kilu
Rakhine: please add this translation if you can
Rendille: ilko
Rohingya: dat
Romagnol: dént m
Romani: dand
Romanian: dinte (ro) m
Romansch: daint m, dent m
Rungus: nipon
Russian: зуб (ru) m (zub)
Sabah Bisaya: nipon
Saho: iko
Sami:
Inari: pääni
Northern: bátni
Skolt: pää´nn
Southern: baenie
Samoan: nifo (sm)
Sanskrit: दन्त (sa) m (danta)
Santali: ᱰᱟᱴᱟ (ḍaṭa)
Sardinian: dènte f
Saurashtra: ꢣꢵꢡ꣄ (dāt)
Scots: tuith
Scottish Gaelic: fiacaill f
Sebop: jipen
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зу̑б m
Roman: zȗb (sh) m
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Sherpa: ས (sa)
Shor: тиш (tiş)
Shughni: д̌инду̊н (δindū̊n)
Sicilian: denti (scn) m
Sidamo: hinko
Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
Simeulue: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: දත (si) (data)
Slovak: zub m
Slovene: zob (sl) m
Solon: iitt
Somali: ilig
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: zub m
Upper Sorbian: zub m
Southern Altai: тиш (tiš)
Southern Ohlone: sit
Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: diente (es) m
Old Spanish: diente
Sranan Tongo: tifi
Sundanese: huntu (su), waos (su)
Swahili: jino (sw) sg, meno (sw) pl (noun 5/6)
Swedish: tand (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠖꠣꠔ (dat)
Tabaru: 'ingiri
Tabasaran: силиб (silib)
Tagal Murut: ripon
Tagalog: ngipin (tl)
Tahitian: niho
Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
Tajik: дандон (tg) (dandon)
Talysh: dandon
Anbarani: داندون (dândun)
Tambunan Dusun: nipon
Tamil: பல் (ta) (pal)
Tarantino: dìnde
Tarifit: tiɣmest f, aɣmuz m
Tat: dandu
Tatar: теш (tt) (teş)
Tausug: ipun
Telugu: పన్ను (te) (pannu)
Ternate: ingi
Tetum: nehan
Thai: ฟัน (th) (fan), ทันต์ (th) (tan) (formal), กราม (th) (graam) (molar)
Tibetan: སོ (so)
Tigrinya: ስኒ (ti) (səni)
Timugon Murut: ripon
Tocharian B: keme
Tok Pisin: tis
Tongan: nifo
Torwali: دان
Tupinambá: ãîa (t-)
Turkish: diş (tr)
Turkmen: diş
Tuvan: диш (diş)
Udi: улух (uluꭓ)
Udmurt: пинь (piń)
Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎐 (šn)
Ukrainian: зуб (uk) m (zub)
Urdu: دان٘ت m (dā̃t), دَنْدان m (dandān)
Uyghur: چىش (ug) (chish)
Uzbek: tish (uz)
Venetan: dénte m
Vietnamese: răng (vi)
Vilamovian: con
Volapük: tut (vo)
Votic: ammõz
Walloon: dint (wa) f
Waray-Waray: ta-ngo
Warlpiri: kartirdi
Welsh: dant (cy)
West Coast Bajau: impon
West Frisian: tosk
White Hmong: hniav
Winnebago: hiipe
Wolof: bëñ (wo)
Xhosa: izinyo class 5/6
Yagara: deea
Yagnobi: диндак (dindak)
Yakan: please add this translation if you can
Yakut: тиис (tiis)
Yámana: tun
Yami: ngepen
Yiddish: צאָן m (tson)
Yoruba: eyín
Yup'ik: keggun
Yurok: (my tooth) 'na-rpehl
Zazaki: dından (diq)
Zealandic: tand m
Zhuang: heuj
Zou: ha
Zulu: izinyo (zu) class 5/6
ǃKung: tsau
ǃXóõ: ǁqhàã :

#### See also

* bicuspid
* canine
* cuspid
* dental
* dentist
* dentistry
* denture
* fang
* incisor
* molar
* orling
* premolar
* prong
* tine
* tusk

### Verb

tooth (third-person singular simple present tooths, present participle toothing, simple past and past participle toothed)
* To provide or furnish with teeth.
** 1815, William Wordsworth, The Brothers:His Wife sate near him, teasing matted wool, / While, from the twin cards toothed with glittering wire / He fed the spindle […]
* To indent; to jag.
    to tooth a saw
* To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
** 1678, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: or the Doctrine of Handy-works‎, page 260:Whereas if the Header of one side of the wall, toothed as much as the Stretcher on the other side, it would be a stronger Toothing, and the joints of the Header on one side, would be in the middle of the Headers of the course they lie upon of the other side

### Anagrams

* Hotot

## Cornish
### Etymology

Cognate with Welsh twyth. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Adjective

tooth
* firm, strong
* steadfast
* stubborn

### Noun

tooth m
* speed
    Synonym: skavder
* hurry

#### Derived terms

* finweth tooth (“speed limit”)
* tooth da (“fast”)
* tooth men (“fast”)
* tothus (“speedy”)
* tothya (“to speed”, verb)

### Mutation
## Middle English
### Noun

tooth
* Alternative form of tothe