Orient

Orient

See also: orient

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French oriant, orient, from Latin oriēns (“east”).

Proper noun

the Orient

1. Countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
2. (dated) Countries east of the Mediterranean.

Antonyms

• Occident

Related terms

• oriental
• orientalia
• orientalist

Translations

Countries of Asia

Arabic: اَلْمَشْرِق‎ m (al-mašriq), شَرْق‎ (ar) f (šarq) Armenian: Արեւելք (Arewelkʿ) Chinese: Mandarin: 東方 (zh), 东方 (zh) (Dōngfāng) Czech: Orient m Danish: Orienten c Dutch: het Oosten n, Oriënt, Morgenland (nl) Finnish: orientti (fi) French: l'Orient (fr) m, Levant (fr) m German: Orient (de) m (Note that in German this primarily refers to the Middle East rather than East Asia) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: पूरब (hi) (pūrab), पूर्व (hi) (pūrv)

Italian: Oriente m, Levante m Japanese: 東洋 (ja) (とうよう, Tōyō), 東方 (ja) (とうほう, Tōhō), オリエント (Oriento) Korean: 동양 (ko) (Dongyang) (東洋 (ko)) Occitan: Orient (oc) m Persian: شرق‎ (fa) (Šarq) Portuguese: Oriente (pt) m Russian: Восто́к (ru) m (Vostók) Spanish: Oriente (es) m Ukrainian: Схід m (Sxid) Vietnamese: Phương Đông Volapük: lofüdän (vo)

Proper noun

Orient

1. A city/town in Illinois.
2. A city/town in Iowa.
3. A town in Maine.
4. A census-designated place/hamlet in New York.
5. A town/village in South Dakota.

Noun

Orient (plural Orients)

1. A pear cultivar from the United States

Anagrams

• Ireton, iteron, norite, retino-, tonier, trione

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Czech

Proper noun

Orient m

1. Orient

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German

Pronunciation

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Noun

Orient m (genitive Orients, no plural)

1. Orient

Usage notes

In sharp contrast to English, the term does not cover East Asia. It is primarily associated with the Muslim world around the Mediterranean, but in a wider sense also covers India.

Antonyms

• Abendland
• Okzident

Synonyms

• Morgenland

Related terms

• orientalisch

Further reading

• Orient in Duden online

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrʲ.jɛnt/

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Proper noun

Orient m inan

1. Orient

Declension

declension of Orient

	singular
nominative	Orient
genitive	Orientu
dative	Orientowi
accusative	Orient
instrumental	Orientem
locative	Oriencie
vocative	Oriencie

Derived terms

• (nouns) orientalistyka, orientalista, orientalistka
• (adjectives) orientalny, orientalistyczny
• (adverb) orientalnie

Further reading

• Orient in Polish dictionaries at PWN