toothpaste

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːθpeɪst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtuθpeɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

toothpaste (countable and uncountable, plural toothpastes)

2. A paste, normally used with a toothbrush, for cleaning the teeth.

   fluoride toothpaste

   whitening toothpaste

   tube of toothpaste

   squeeze toothpaste

   She squeezed a bit of toothpaste onto her toothbrush.

   The dentist recommended a fluoride toothpaste.

   The child chose a strawberry-flavored toothpaste.

Synonyms

• dentifrice

Derived terms

• elephant's toothpaste
• elephant toothpaste
• put the toothpaste back in the tube
• toothpaste is out of the tube
• toothpastey
• toothpasty
• you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube

Translations

paste for cleaning the teeth

• Afrikaans: tandepasta
• Albanian: pastë dhëmbësh f, kolinoz m
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: тиш јунар паста (tiš ǰunar pasta)

• Arabic: مَعْجُون الأَسْنَان m (maʕjūn al-ʔasnān)
• Armenian: ատամի մածուկ (atami macuk)
• Azerbaijani: diş pastası, diş məcunu
• Bashkir: теш пастаһы (teş pastahï)
• Belarusian: зубна́я па́ста f (zubnája pásta)
• Bengali: টুথপেস্ট (ṭuthopesṭ)
• Bulgarian: па́ста за зъ́би f (pásta za zắbi)
• 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-kau₁)

• 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)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: toskpasta c, toskeguod n

• 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 (tis pastası)
• 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
• Māori: pēniho
• Mauritian Creole: dantifris
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шүдний оо (šüdnii oo), яагуу (jaaguu) (Inner Mongolia)

  Mongolian script: ᠰᠢᠳᠦ ᠶᠢᠨ
  ᠣ᠋ (sidü-yin o), ᠶᠠᠭᠣᠦ (yaɣoü)

• Navajo: awooʼ bił yichʼiishí, awooʼ bee yichʼiishí bikʼi nátłohí
• Norman: pâte à dents f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tannkrem (no) m, tannpasta (no) m

  Nynorsk: tannkrem m, tannpasta m

• 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)
• Romansh: pasta da dents f
• Russian: зубна́я па́ста (ru) f (zubnája pásta)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: bátnegealas

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зубна паста f, паста за зубе f

  Latin: zubna pasta f, pasta za zube (sh) f

• Slovak: zubná pasta f
• Slovene: zobna pasta (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: zubna pasta f

  Upper Sorbian:

• Spanish: crema​/​pasta dental​/​dentaria​/​dentífrica f, pasta de dientes f, dentífrico (es) m, kolinos m (Bolivia), kolynos m (South America)
• Swahili: dawa ya meno
• Swedish: tandkräm (sv) c
• Tagalog: pasta sa ngipin, 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

  Ottoman Turkish: دیش معجونی (diş maʼcunu)

• 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
• Yakut: тиис паастата (tiis paastata)

Verb

toothpaste (third-person singular simple present toothpastes, present participle toothpasting, simple past and past participle toothpasted)

1. To cover, or smear, with toothpaste.