miswak

English

Alternative forms

• miswaak

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِسْوَاك (miswāk), derived from Persian سواک (sevâk, “a teeth cleaning twig made from the arak tree”), originated from pre-Islamic Persia.

Noun

miswak (plural miswaks)

1. A chewstick used particularly by Muslims for cleaning the teeth, made from twigs of trees of species Salvadora persica.

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: سِوَاك (ar) m (siwāk), مِسْوَاك m (miswāk)
• Bengali: মেসওয়াক (meśōẇak)
• Dhivehi: ސިވާކު (sivāku), މިސްވާކު (misvāku)
• Hausa: asawaki m
• Hindi: पीलू (hi) (pīlū), मिसवाक (misvāk)
• Javanese: ꦱꦶꦮꦏ꧀ (siwak), ꦩꦶꦱ꧀ꦮꦏ꧀ (miswak)
• Kazakh: мәсуек (kk) (mäsüwek)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سیواک (sîwak)

• Malay: kayu sugi, kayu siwak
• Pashto: مسواک
• Persian: مسواک (fa)
• Russian: мисвак (misvak)
• Swahili: mswaki (sw)
• Turkish: misvak (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: مسواك (misvâk)

• Turkmen: meswäk
• Urdu: مسواک (msvāk)

Further reading

• miswak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia