how to say “hygienist” in Hebrew
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שִנָּנִית
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Ever run out of dental floss? I did this week… and my dental hygienist might give me a scolding if I don’t replace it soon.
The Academy of the Hebrew Language came up with an authentic Hebrew word for this modern profession: שִׁנָּן (shee-NAHN), deriving from the word for tooth – שֵׁן (shen). And whereas many other attempts to introduce a Hebrew word to substitute a foreign one, this attempt succeeded.
But since the vast majority of them are female, the de facto term used by speakers as well as online engines to translate dental hygienist is שִׁנָּנִית (shee-nah-NEET).
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