Ethan

See also: ethan and ethän

English

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew אֵיתָן (ʾêṯān, literally “firmness, strong, or long-lived”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːθən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -iːθən

Proper noun

Ethan

1. A male given name from Hebrew, of mostly American usage since the 18th century; popular in the 2000s.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 4:31:

     For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.

   • 1889, John Langdon Heaton, The Story of Vermont: p.90:

     There have been Ethan Allen mills, Ethan Allen stock companies, Ethan Allen fire companies and Ethan Allen streets. The name of the daring partisan leader has been used in Vermont much as that of Washington throughout the Union.

   • 2001, Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 88:

     They would have named him something dignified: Ethan, or Tristram. Something that couldn't easily be shortened.

   • 2025 February 2, Vittoria Elliott, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover”, in WIRED‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 February 2025:

     The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

2. A town in South Dakota, United States.

Translations

male given name

• Armenian: Եթան (Etʻan)
• Bengali: ইথান (ithan)
• Czech: Ejtan m
• Dutch: Ethan (nl)
• French: Éthan (fr)
• Gujarati: ઈથન (īthan)
• Hebrew: אֵיתָן (he) m (Ētán)
• Hindi: ईथन (īthan)
• Hungarian: Étán
• Japanese: イーサン (Īsan)
• Latvian: Ētans m
• Lithuanian: Etanas m
• Malayalam: ഈതൻ (ītaṉ)
• Marathi: ईथन m (īthan)
• Polish: Etan (pl)
• Punjabi: ਈਥਨ (īthan)
• Russian: Е́фан m (Jéfan), Еѳанъ m (Jefan) (pre-reform)
• Tamil: ஈத்தன் (īttaṉ)

See also

• Ethanim

Anagrams

• Anthe, Nathe, 'neath, neath, Thane, thane, Ethna, Aneth, Neath, Tehan, Thean, ahent

German

Ethan

Alternative forms

• Äthan

Etymology

From eth- +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

Ethan n (strong, genitive Ethans, no plural)

1. (chemistry, technical) ethane (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C₂H₆)

Declension

Declension of Ethan [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Ethan
genitive	eines	des	Ethans
dative	einem	dem	Ethan
accusative	ein	das	Ethan

Hypernyms

• Alkan

Coordinate terms

• Methan, Propan, Butan, Pentan

Related terms

• Ethanol, Ethanal, Ethanon

Further reading

• Ethan on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Ethan” in Duden online
• “Ethan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache