eastern

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.
   • 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, 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 (šarʾi) Armenian: արևելյան (hy) (arewelyan) Azerbaijani: şərqi, şərq (az) Belarusian: усхо́дні (usxódni), ўсхо́дні (ŭsxódni) Bengali: পূর্ব (bn) (pūrbô) 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: აღმოსავლეთი (aɣmosavleti) 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 Korean: 동풍(東風) (ko) (dongpung) Polish: wschodni (pl) m Portuguese: leste (pt) Russian: восто́чный (ru) (vostóčnyj) Swedish: ostlig (sv)

See also

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

Anagrams

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