folklorist

English

Etymology

From folklore +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊklɔɹɪst/

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Noun

folklorist (plural folklorists)

1. A person who studies or collects folklore

Translations

a person who studies or collects folklore

• Catalan: folklorista m or f
• Finnish: folkloristi (fi), kansanperinteen tutkija, perinteentutkija, kansanperinteentutkija
• French: folkloriste (fr) m or f
• Greek: λαογράφος (el) m or f (laográfos)
• Hungarian: folklorista (hu)
• Irish: béaloideasaí m
• Italian: folclorista m or f
• Kazakh: фольклортанушы (folklortanuşy)
• Macedonian: фолклорист m (folklorist), фолклористка f (folkloristka)
• Polish: folklorysta (pl) m, folklorystka (pl) f
• Russian: фольклори́ст (ru) m (folʹkloríst)
• Serbo-Croatian: folklorist (sh) m
• Spanish: folklorista (es) m or f, folclorista (es) m or f
• Swedish: folklorist (sv) c

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• folklòrista (Bosnia, Serbia)

Etymology

From fòlklōr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /folklǒrist/
• Hyphenation: fol‧klo‧rist

Noun

folklòrist m (Cyrillic spelling фолкло̀рист)

1. folklorist

Declension

Declension of folklorist

	singular	plural
nominative	folklorist	folkloristi
genitive	folklorista	folklorista
dative	folkloristu	folkloristima
accusative	folklorista	folkloriste
vocative	folkloriste	folkloristi
locative	folkloristu	folkloristima
instrumental	folkloristom	folkloristima

References

• “folklorist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025