Middle East
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Etymology
[edit]Compound of middle + east formed in English, modeled on Far East and Near East. Attested from the latter 19th century.
Proper noun
[edit]- (geopolitics, dated) The region between the Near East and the Far East.
- 1920 April 21, House of Commons, quoting Austen Chamberlain, “Budget proposals, Committee of Ways and Means”, in The Parliamentary Debates, volume 128, page 455:
- Well, what may happen in the Middle East? I agree there are uncertainties, but when he was condemning the policy of the Government with regard to the Turkish peace, had he thought for a moment of the financial effect of the policy which he advocated?
- (geopolitics) The region comprising West Asia without the South Caucasus and additionally including all of Egypt (not just the Sinai) and all of Turkey (not just Asian Turkey).
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants
- → Arabic: الشَّرْق الْأَوْسَط (aš-šarq al-ʔawsaṭ) (calque)
- → Azerbaijani: Orta Şərq (calque)
- → Belarusian: Сярэ́дні Усхо́д (Sjarédni Usxód) (calque)
- → Catalan: Orient Mitjà (calque)
- → Czech: Střední východ (calque)
- → Dutch: Midden-Oosten (calque)
- → French: Moyen-Orient (calque)
- → German: Mittlerer Osten (calque)
- → Greek: Μέση Ανατολή (Mési Anatolí) (calque)
- → Italian: Medio Oriente (calque)
- → Kazakh: Орта Шығыс (Orta Şyğys) (calque)
- → Macedonian: Среден Исток (Sreden Istok) (calque)
- → Norwegian: Midtøsten (calque)
- → Persian: خاورمیانه (xâvar-e-miyâne) (calque)
- → Polish: Środkowy Wschód (calque)
- → Portuguese: Oriente Médio (calque)
- → Romanian: Orientul Mijlociu (calque)
- → Russian: Сре́дний Восто́к (Srédnij Vostók) (calque)
- → Spanish: Medio Oriente (calque)
- → Swedish: Mellanöstern (calque)
- → Turkish: Orta Doğu (calque)
- → Turkmen: Orta Gündogar (calque)
- → Urdu: مَشْرِقِ وُسْطیٰ (maśriq-e vustā) (calque)
- → Uyghur: ئوتتۇرا شەرق (ottura sherq) (calque)
- → Uzbek: Oʻrta Sharq (calque)
Translations
[edit]region comprising Western Asia without the South Caucasus and additionally including all of Egypt and all of Turkey
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References
[edit]- “Middle East, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2002.