eastern

See also: Eastern

English

Etymology

From Middle English esturne, esterne, from Old English ēasterne (“eastern”), from Proto-Germanic *austrōnijaz (“eastern”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ro- (“eastern”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn, east”). Cognate with Old Saxon and Old High German ōstrōni (“eastern”), Old Norse austrœnn (“eastern”).

Morphologically east +‎ -ern.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.stən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈi.stɚn/

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• Rhymes: -iːstə(ɹ)n

Adjective

eastern (comparative more eastern, superlative most eastern)

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the east.

   Synonym: (poetic) eoan

   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25:

     While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

   • 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College‎^[1], volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393:

     The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶

2. (of a wind) Blowing from the east; easterly.
3. (loosely) Oriental.

Derived terms

• eastern banjo frog
• eastern buzzard
• eastern columbine
• eastern coneflower
• eastern crevice skink
• eastern curlew
• eastern equine encephalitis
• eastern gorilla
• eastern gray squirrel
• eastern green drake
• eastern grey kangaroo
• eastern hemisphere
• eastern hemlock
• eastern imperial eagle
• eastern jackrabbit
• eastern kingsnake
• easternmost
• Eastern Norway
• eastern olivaceous warbler
• eastern Orphean warbler
• eastern poison ivy
• eastern ratsnake
• eastern redbud
• eastern red cedar
• eastern spotted skunk
• eastern tarantula
• eastern tent caterpillar
• eastern water dragon
• eastern white pine
• eastern wolf
• eastern yellow wagtail
• north-eastern
• south-eastern

 

Translations

related to the east

• Albanian: lindor (sq)
• Arabic: شَرْقِيّ‎ (šarqiyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: شرقي‎ (šarʔi)

• Armenian: արևելյան (hy) (arewelyan)
• Azerbaijani: şərqi, şərq (az)
• Belarusian: усхо́дні (usxódni), ўсхо́дні (ŭsxódni)
• Bengali: পূর্ব (bn) (purbo)
• Bulgarian: и́зточен (bg) (íztočen)
• Burmese: အရှေ့ (my) (a.hre.)
• Catalan: oriental (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 東方的／东方的 (zh) (dōngfāng de), 東／东 (zh) (dōng)

• Czech: východní (cs)
• Danish: østlig (da), østre
• Dutch: oostelijk (nl)
• Egyptian: (jꜣbj)
• Esperanto: orienta
• Estonian: idamaine, ida- (et)
• Finnish: itäinen (fi), itä- (fi)
• French: oriental (fr)
• Georgian: აღმოსავლური (aɣmosavluri), აღმოსავლეთის (aɣmosavletis), აღმოსავლეთისა (aɣmosavletisa)
• German: östlich (de), Ost- (de)
• Greek: ανατολικός (el) (anatolikós)

  Ancient: ἀνατολικός (anatolikós)

• Hebrew: מִזְרָחִי‎ (he) (mizrakhí)
• Hindi: पूर्वी (hi) (pūrvī), पूरबी (hi) (pūrbī)
• Hungarian: keleti (hu)
• Icelandic: austur (is)
• Italian: orientale (it)
• Japanese: 東の (ja) (ひがしの, higashi no), 東方の (ja) (とうほうの, tōhō no)
• Kazakh: шығыс (kk) (şyğys)
• Khmer: ខាងកើត (khaang kaət)
• Korean: 동(東)쪽의 (dongjjog-ui)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rojhilatî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: чыгыштык (ky) (çıgıştık), чыгыш (ky) (çıgış)
• Lao: ຕາເວັນອອກ (tā wen ʼǭk)
• Latin: orientalis (la)
• Latvian: austrumu
• Lithuanian: rytinis, rytų
• Macedonian: источен (istočen)
• Malayalam: കിഴക്കൻ (ml) (kiḻakkaṉ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: østre (no), østlig (no)

  Nynorsk: austre

• Occitan: oriental (oc)
• Oriya: ପୂର୍ବୀୟ (or) (purbiyô)
• Pashto: شرقي‎ (ps) (šarqi)
• Persian: شرقی‎ (fa) (šarqi), مشرقی‎ (fa) (mašreqi)
• Polish: wschodni (pl)
• Portuguese: oriental (pt), do leste
• Punjabi: ਪੂਰਬੀ (pūrbī)
• Romanian: estic (ro) m or n, oriental (ro) m or n, de est, răsăritean (ro) m
• Russian: восто́чный (ru) (vostóčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: sear, an ear
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝсточнӣ

  Roman: ìstočnī (sh)

• Slovak: východný (sk)
• Slovene: vzhoden
• Spanish: oriental (es), esteño (es)
• Swedish: östra (sv), östlig (sv)
• Tajik: шарқӣ (šarqī)
• Tatar: көнчыгыш (tt) (könçığış)
• Thai: ตะวันออก (th) (dtà-wan-ɔ̀ɔk)
• Turkish: doğu (tr)
• Turkmen: gündogar
• Ukrainian: схі́дний (uk) (sxídnyj)
• Urdu: مَشْرِقی‎ (maśriqī), شَرْقی‎ (śarqī)
• Uyghur: شەرقىي‎ (sherqiy)
• Uzbek: sharqiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: đông (vi) (東 (vi))
• Welsh: dwyreiniol (cy)
• Yiddish: מיזרחדיק‎ (mizrekhdik)

blowing from the east

• Armenian: արևելյան (hy) (arewelyan)
• Bulgarian: и́зточен (bg) (íztočen)
• Catalan: llevant (ca)
• Czech: východní (cs)
• Danish: østlig (da)
• Finnish: itäinen (fi), itä- (fi)
• Galician: soán
• Georgian: აღმოსავლეთის (aɣmosavletis), აღმოსავლეთიდან (aɣmosavletidan)
• Korean: 동풍(東風) (ko) (dongpung)
• Polish: wschodni (pl) m
• Portuguese: leste (pt)
• Russian: восто́чный (ru) (vostóčnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: istočni (sh) m
• Swedish: ostlig (sv)

See also

• northern
• southern
• western
• northeastern
• southeastern
• southwestern
• northwestern

Anagrams

• Earnest, Saetern, Tareens, earnest, estrane, nearest, renates, sterane