linguist

See also: Linguist and linguïst

English

Etymology

From Latin lingua (“language”) +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈliŋɡwɪst/

Noun

linguist (plural linguists)

One who studies linguistics.
A person skilled in languages.
A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.

Hyponyms

(student of languages): orthoepist, dialectician, dialectologist

Hypernyms

(student of languages): phonetician

Derived terms

Translations

one who studies linguistics

Afrikaans: taalkundige, linguis, taalwetenskaplike
Arabic: لُغَوِيّ‎ m (luḡawiyy), عَالِم لُغَوِيّ‎ m (ʿālim luḡawiyy)
Armenian: լեզվաբան (hy) (lezvaban)
Asturian: llingüista m or f
Belarusian: мовазнавец m (móvaznavjec), мовавед m (móvavjed)
Catalan: lingüista m or f
Cebuano: magdidila
Chechen: меттанийн ӏилманча (mettanīn ʿilmanča)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 語言學家 (zh), 语言学家 (zh) (yǔyán xuéjiā), 語言學者, 语言学者 (yǔyán xuézhě)
Czech: jazykovědec m, jazykovědkyně (cs) f, lingvista (cs) m, lingvistka (cs) f
Danish: lingvist c, sprogforsker c, sprogvidenskabsmand c
Dutch: taalkundige (nl) m or f, linguïst (nl) m
Esperanto: lingvisto
Faroese: málfrøðingur m
Finnish: kielitieteilijä (fi), kielentutkija, lingvisti (fi), rare: lingvistikko (fi)
French: linguiste (fr) m or f
Galician: lingüista m or f
Georgian: ლინგვისტი (lingvisṭi), ენათმეცნიერი (enatmecnieri)
German: Sprachwissenschaftler (de) m, Sprachwissenschaftlerin (de) f, Sprachwissenschafter m, Sprachwissenschafterin f, Linguist (de) m, Linguistin (de) f, Sprachforscher (de) m, Sprachforscherin f
Greek: γλωσσολόγος (el) m or f (glossológos)
Greenlandic: oqaasilerisoq
Hebrew: בלשן‎ (he) m (balshan)
Hungarian: nyelvész (hu), nyelvtudós
Icelandic: málvísindamaður m
Interlingua: linguista
Irish: teangeolaí m
Italian: linguista (it) m or f
Japanese: 言語学者 (ja) (げんごがくしゃ, gengogakusha)
Khmer: ភាសាវិទូ (pʰiesaa vi’tuu)

Latvian: valodnieks m, lingvists m
Lithuanian: kalbininkas m, lingvistas m, kalbotyrininkas m
Macedonian: јазичар m (jazičar), лингвист m (lingvist)
Manx: çhengeyder m, glareydagh m
Norman: lîndgiste m or f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lingvist m, språkforsker (no) m, språkviter m, språkvitenskapsmann m

Nynorsk: lingvist m, språkforskar m, språkvetar m, språkvitar m, språkvitskapsmann m
Persian: زبان‌شناس‎ (fa) (zabân-shenâs)
Polish: językoznawca (pl) m, językoznawczyni f, lingwista (pl) m, lingwistka (pl) f
Portuguese: linguista (pt) m or f
Romanian: lingvist (ro) m, lingvistă (ro) f
Russian: лингви́ст (ru) m (lingvíst), лингви́стка (ru) f (lingvístka), языкове́д (ru) m (jazykovéd)
Scottish Gaelic: cainntear m, cànanaiche m, teangaiche m, teangair m
Serbo-Croatian: lìngvist (sh) m, lingvìstica (sh) f, jezikoslóvac (sh) m, jezikòslōvka (sh) f
Slovak: jazykovedec m, jazykovedkyňa f, lingvista m, lingvistka f
Slovene: jezikoslovec (sl), jezikoslovka f
Spanish: lingüista (es) m or f
Swahili: mwanaisimu (sw)
Swedish: lingvist (sv) c, språkforskare (sv) c, språkvetare (sv) c
Tagalog: dalubwika
Tatar: телче (tt) (telçe), тел белгече (tel belgeçe), лингвист (lingwist)
Thai: นักภาษาศาสตร์ (nák-paa-sǎa-sàat)
Tibetan: སྐད་རིགས་མཁས་པ (skad rigs mkhas pa)
Turkish: dilbilimci (tr)
Ukrainian: мовознавець m (movoznavecʹ)
Vietnamese: nhà ngôn ngữ học
Welsh: ieithydd (cy) m
Yiddish: לינגוויסט‎ m (lingvist), שפּראַכפֿאָרשער‎ m (shprakhforsher), שפּראַכקענער‎ m (shprakhkener)

a person skilled in languages

Cebuano: magdidila
Finnish: kieliniekka, kielimies
Hungarian: idegen nyelv ek et (jól) beszél ő ember, idegen nyelv ek en (jól) tud ó ember

Portuguese: linguista (pt) m or f
Romanian: lingvist (ro) m, lingvistă (ro) f

a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces

Galician: tradutor (gl) m
Hungarian: fordító (hu), tolmács (hu)

Portuguese: intérprete (pt) m or f, tradutor (pt) m
Romanian: translator (ro) m, interpret (ro) f

Romanian

Noun

linguist m (plural linguiști)

Alternative spelling of lingvist

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