Tooth

Noun

 * 1) A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
 * 2) A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
 * 3) 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.
 * 4)  A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.

Hyponyms

 * bicuspid, canine, cuspid, incisor, premolar, molar
 * See also Thesaurus:tooth

Derived terms

 * back tooth
 * clean as a hound's tooth
 * eyetooth
 * fight tooth and nail
 * long in the tooth
 * milk tooth
 * sweet tooth


 * teethe verb
 * toothache
 * tooth and nail
 * toothbrush
 * tooth fairy
 * toothless


 * toothpaste
 * toothpick
 * toothsome
 * toothy
 * wisdom tooth

Thesaurus
Vandyke, aftertaste, asperity, baby tooth, bicuspid, bitter, blaze, bucktooth, bumpiness, canine, chop, choppiness, coarsen, cog, comb, crag, cragginess, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, crown, cuspid, cut, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, eyetooth, fang, flavor, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gash, gold tooth, grain, granulate, granulation, grinder, gust, harrow, harshness, hispidity, incise, incisor, indent, inequality, irregularity, jag, jaggedness, joltiness, knurl, machicolate, milk tooth, mill, molar, nick, nonuniformity, notch, palate, peak, pecten, peg, permanent tooth, picot, pink, pivot tooth, premolar, projection, raggedness, rake, ratchet, relish, rough air, roughen, roughness, ruggedness, rugosity, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, sawtooth, scallop, scarify, score, scotch, scraggliness, scrivello, serrate, slash, smack, smooth, snag, snaggle, snaggletooth, sour, spire, sprocket, spur, steeple, stomach, sweet, tang, taste, tongue, turbulence, tush, tusk, unevenness, unsmoothness, ununiformity, wisdom tooth

Etymology
toþ:, from (compare Danish/Dutch tand:, German Zahn:), from  (compare Welsh dant:, Latin dens:, Lithuanian dantis:, Ancient Greek ὀδούς:, Armenian ատամ:, Persian دندان:, Sanskrit dánt:).

Translations

 * Albanian: dhëmb
 * Arabic: سن, أسنان
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܫܢܐ (šinā’)
 * Hebrew: שנא (šinā’)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: hortz
 * Belarusian: зуб, зубы
 * Bengali: দাঁত
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:, dent
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: စွယ်
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 牙齒, 牙齿, 牙, 齒, 齿
 * Min Nan: chhùi-khí
 * Chuvash:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Darkinjung:
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: dento
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Gagauz:
 * Gamilaraay: yira
 * Georgian: კბილი, კბილები
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Guaraní: ãi (t-)
 * Gujarati: દાંત
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: दांत, दन्त
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: dente
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 歯
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh: тіс
 * Khakas:
 * Khmer: ធ្មេញ
 * Kikuyu:
 * Korean: 이, 니, 이빨
 * Koryak:
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:, diran
 * Sorani: (dan),
 * Kyrgyz: тиш
 * Lakota:
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lingala: lǐno
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lithuanian:


 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: പല്ല്, ദന്തം, യന്ത്രപ്പല്ല്
 * Maori: niho
 * Mapudungun: ,
 * Mbabaram: dirra
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: tlantli
 * Navajo:
 * Nepali: शअऎढ़ड़ (iengxīṇ)
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Nottoway-Meherrin:
 * Ojibwe: -bid, -bidan pl (inalienable, always requires a pronoun: niibid = my tooth)
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਦੰਦ
 * Quechua: kiru
 * Rohingya: dat
 * Romani: dand
 * Romanian:
 * Russia Buryat:
 * Russian:, зубы
 * Samoan: nifo
 * Sanskrit: दन्त
 * Scottish Gaelic: fiacal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зуб
 * Roman: zub
 * Shor:
 * Sichuan Yi:
 * Sinhalese: දත
 * Slovak: zub, zuby
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: huntu
 * Swahili: jino, meno pl (noun 5/6)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ngipin
 * Tahitian: nihfi
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: теш
 * Telugu: పన్ను
 * Thai: กราม, ฟันกราม, ทันต์, ฟัน
 * Tok Pisin: tis
 * Tupinambá: ãîa (t-)
 * Turkish:, dişler
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian:, зуби
 * Urdu: دانت
 * Uyghur: چىش
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: tut, tuts, tutem
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: tosk
 * !Xóõ: ǁqhàã
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: צאָן, ציין (tseyn, zejn), ציינער (tseyner, zejner)
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: צאָן, ציין (tseyn, zejn), ציינער (tseyner, zejner)


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: კბილი, კბილები
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: दांत़
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:


 * Italian: dente
 * Korean: 톱니 (topni)
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: забец
 * Norwegian:
 * Pashto:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ;
 * Serbian:, zubac
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar: tiş
 * Telugu: పన్ను
 * Thai: (fan)


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: दांत़
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: dente
 * Korean: 톱니 (topni)


 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: забец
 * Pashto:
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ;
 * Serbian: zub, zubac
 * Tatar: tiş
 * Telugu: పన్ను
 * Thai: (fan)

Anagrams

 * Hotot