Dictionary
noun مِسْواک / mesvâk
IPA: /mesvɒːk/
Wiktionary- toothbrush
- miswak (a teeth-cleaning twig made from the toothbrush tree (Salvadora persica))
- ↑ Shaul Shaked (2002) “Hadith, V.: As influenced by Iranian ideas and practices”, in Encyclopedia Iranica Online: “The Hadith literature insists on the use of a tooth-pick, called in Arabic meswāk or sewāk, a word which is probably derived ultimately from an unattested Middle Persian word *sawāg.”