Urban

Urban

See also: urban

English

Etymology

Latin Urbānus, name of eight early popes, from urbānus (“of the town or city, urbane”). Doublet of Orban.

Proper noun

Urban (countable and uncountable, plural Urbans)

1. (uncommon) A male given name from Latin
2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. An early Christian, also Urbane and Urbanus in various versions of the Bible. (biblical character)
   • 1380s, Wycliffe translation of the Bible, Romans 16:9:

     Grete wel Vrban, oure helpere in Crist Jhesus, and Stacchen, my derlyng.

Derived terms

• Urbanist

Translations

male given name

Armenian: Ուրբանոս (Urbanos) Asturian: Urbanu m Bulgarian: Урбан m (Urban) Catalan: Urbà m Czech: Urban (cs) m Dutch: Urbaan Faroese: Urbanus Finnish: Urpo (fi) French: Urbain (fr) m Galician: Urbano (gl) m German: Urban m Greek: Ουρβανός (el) m (Ourvanós) Ancient: Οὐρβανός m (Ourbanós) Hungarian: Orbán (hu) Italian: Urbano (it) m Latin: Urbanus m Lithuanian: Urbonas (lt) Polish: Urban (pl) m Portuguese: Urbano m Romanian: Urban m Russian: Урбан (ru) m (Urban) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Урбан m Roman: Urban m Sicilian: Urbanu m Slovak: Urban Slovene: Urbàn (sl) m Spanish: Urbano (es) m Swedish: Urban (sv) c Ukrainian: Урбан m (Urban) Venetian: Urban m Vietnamese: Urbanô, Ước Bang

Anagrams

• Braun, Buran, Rabun, aburn, buran, unabr., unbar

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈurban]

Proper noun

Urban m anim (feminine Urbanová)

1. a male surname

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈur.ban/

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• Rhymes: -urban
• Syllabification: Ur‧ban

Proper noun

Urban m pers or f

1. a masculine surname
2. a feminine surname

Declension

Masculine surname:

Declension of Urban

	singular	plural
nominative	Urban	Urbanowie
genitive	Urbana	Urbanów
dative	Urbanowi	Urbanom
accusative	Urbana	Urbanów
instrumental	Urbanem	Urbanami
locative	Urbanie	Urbanach
vocative	Urbanie	Urbanowie

The feminine surname is indeclinable.

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Romanian

Etymology

From Polish Urban.

Proper noun

Urban m (genitive/dative lui Urban)

1. a surname from Polish

References

• Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎, Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈurban/

Proper noun

Urban m (genitive singular Urbana, nominative plural Urbanovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Urban

	singular	plural
nominative	Urban	Urbanovia
genitive	Urbana	Urbanov
dative	Urbanovi	Urbanom
accusative	Urbana	Urbanov
locative	Urbanovi	Urbanoch
instrumental	Urbanom	Urbanmi

Further reading

• Urban in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /urbán/, /urbáːn/

Proper noun

Urbȁn or Urbȃn m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Urban

Inflection

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nominative	Urbàn
genitive	Urbána
	singular
nominative	Urbàn
accusative	Urbána
genitive	Urbána
dative	Urbánu
locative	Urbánu
instrumental	Urbánom

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Swedish

Proper noun

Urban c (genitive Urbans)

1. a male given name, which peaked in popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. Cognate to Urban

Anagrams

• bruna