Eastern in Different Languages
Discover 'Eastern' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Eastern
Afrikaans oostelike | ||
Albanian lindore | ||
Amharic ምስራቅ | ||
Arabic الشرقية | ||
Armenian արևելյան | ||
Assamese পূবৰ | ||
Aymara inti jalsu tuqiru | ||
Azerbaijani şərq | ||
Bambara kɔrɔn fɛ | ||
Basque ekialdekoa | ||
Belarusian усходняй | ||
Bengali পূর্ব | ||
Bhojpuri पूरबी के बा | ||
Bosnian istočno | ||
Bulgarian източна | ||
Catalan oriental | ||
Cebuano silangan nga bahin sa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 东 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 東 | ||
Corsican orientale | ||
Croatian istočni | ||
Czech východní | ||
Danish østlige | ||
Dhivehi އިރުމަތީ ފަރާތުންނެވެ | ||
Dogri पूर्वी | ||
Dutch oostelijk | ||
English eastern | ||
Esperanto orienta | ||
Estonian idapoolne | ||
Ewe ɣedzeƒe gome | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) silangan | ||
Finnish itäinen | ||
French est | ||
Frisian eastlik | ||
Galician oriental | ||
Georgian აღმოსავლური | ||
German östlich | ||
Greek ανατολικός | ||
Guarani kuarahyresẽ gotyo | ||
Gujarati પૂર્વી | ||
Haitian Creole lès | ||
Hausa gabas | ||
Hawaiian hikina | ||
Hebrew מזרחי | ||
Hindi पूर्व का | ||
Hmong sab hnub tuaj | ||
Hungarian keleti | ||
Icelandic austur | ||
Igbo owuwa anyanwu | ||
Ilocano daya | ||
Indonesian timur | ||
Irish thoir | ||
Italian orientale | ||
Japanese 東部 | ||
Javanese wetan | ||
Kannada ಪೂರ್ವ | ||
Kazakh шығыс | ||
Khmer ខាងកើត | ||
Kinyarwanda iburasirazuba | ||
Konkani उदेंतेकडलें | ||
Korean 동부 | ||
Krio na di ist pat | ||
Kurdish rohilatî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕۆژهەڵاتی | ||
Kyrgyz чыгыш | ||
Lao ພາກຕາເວັນອອກ | ||
Latin orientem | ||
Latvian austrumu | ||
Lingala na ɛsti | ||
Lithuanian rytų | ||
Luganda ebuvanjuba | ||
Luxembourgish ëstlech | ||
Macedonian источна | ||
Maithili पूर्वी | ||
Malagasy eoropa | ||
Malay timur | ||
Malayalam കിഴക്ക് | ||
Maltese tal-lvant | ||
Maori rawhiti | ||
Marathi पूर्व | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯅꯣꯡꯄꯣꯛ ꯊꯪꯕꯥ ꯁꯔꯨꯛꯇꯥ ꯂꯩ꯫ | ||
Mizo hmar lam | ||
Mongolian зүүн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အရှေ့ပိုင်း | ||
Nepali पूर्वी | ||
Norwegian østlig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kummawa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପୂର୍ବ | ||
Oromo bahaa | ||
Pashto ختیځ | ||
Persian شرقی | ||
Polish wschodni | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) oriental | ||
Punjabi ਪੂਰਬੀ | ||
Quechua inti lluqsimuy ladupi | ||
Romanian estic | ||
Russian восточный | ||
Samoan sasaʻe | ||
Sanskrit पूर्वम् | ||
Scots Gaelic sear | ||
Sepedi ka bohlabela | ||
Serbian источни | ||
Sesotho bochabela | ||
Shona kumabvazuva | ||
Sindhi مشرقي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නැගෙනහිර | ||
Slovak východná | ||
Slovenian vzhodni | ||
Somali bari | ||
Spanish oriental | ||
Sundanese wétan | ||
Swahili mashariki | ||
Swedish östra | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) silangan | ||
Tajik шарқӣ | ||
Tamil கிழக்கு | ||
Tatar көнчыгыш | ||
Telugu తూర్పు | ||
Thai ตะวันออก | ||
Tigrinya ምብራቓዊ | ||
Tsonga evuxeni | ||
Turkish doğu | ||
Turkmen gündogar | ||
Twi (Akan) apuei fam | ||
Ukrainian східний | ||
Urdu مشرقی | ||
Uyghur شەرق | ||
Uzbek sharqiy | ||
Vietnamese phương đông | ||
Welsh dwyreiniol | ||
Xhosa empuma | ||
Yiddish מזרח | ||
Yoruba ila-oorun | ||
Zulu empumalanga |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "oostelike" ultimately derives from the Middle Dutch word "oostlike", meaning "eastern", itself deriving from the Old Saxon word "ōstan." |
| Albanian | The word "lindore" in Albanian is thought to be derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*lei-n-d-", meaning "to flow", and is related to the words "lindi" (river) and "lindje" (east). |
| Arabic | "الشرقية" is also the name of a governorate in Egypt, which is located in the eastern part of the Nile Delta. |
| Azerbaijani | "Şərq" in Azerbaijani also refers to the Middle East, as it was initially introduced by Arabs and Persians. |
| Basque | In Basque, the word "ekialdekoa" doesn't only mean "eastern", but also "morning" or "at dawn". |
| Belarusian | 'Усходняй' also means 'rising' or 'rising sun'. |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "পূর্ব" ("eastern") is often used in a non-directional sense to indicate the past. |
| Bosnian | The word 'istočno' can also be used to refer to the 'eastern part' of something. |
| Bulgarian | "Източна" in Bulgarian also refers to "a room facing east". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "oriental" can also refer to something or someone from the Middle East, notably the Levant and modern-day Turkey. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The Chinese character "东" means "east", but it is also used in the name of the Tokyo subway line and the name of a type of Chinese opera. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Chinese, the character "東" can also mean "spring" or "brightness" |
| Corsican | The word "orientale" in Corsican originates from the Latin word "oriens", meaning "rising" or "eastern". It specifically refers to the eastern part of the island, facing the Italian peninsula. |
| Croatian | The word 'istočni' can also mean 'genuine' or 'true', and is related to the word 'istina' ('truth'). |
| Czech | In the Czech language, the word "východní" (eastern) can also mean "oriental". |
| Danish | While østlige means "eastern" in Danish, it also means "austern" in Norwegian. |
| Dutch | The word "oostelijk" is derived from the Old Dutch word "oost", meaning "dawn" or "sunrise", and originally referred to the direction from which the sun rises. |
| Esperanto | The word "orienta" is derived from the Latin word "oriens", meaning "rising" or "east". |
| Estonian | Idapoolne is also the Estonian word for "ideal" and means "perfect" in this context. |
| Finnish | "Itäinen" also refers to eastern Karelia, a region now divided between Finland and Russia. |
| French | In place names, "Est" can also refer to the east of France, rather than the geographical direction. |
| Frisian | In older Frisian, the word "eastlik" could also mean "convenient" or "handy". |
| Galician | In Galician, "oriental" can also mean "exotic" or "strange". |
| German | The word "östlich" can also refer to the Austrian province of Lower Austria, known as Niederösterreich in German. |
| Greek | The word "ανατολικός" in Greek can also mean "oriental" or "levantine". |
| Gujarati | The word "પૂર્વી" in Gujarati can also refer to a type of classical music, specifically a form of tappa music. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "lès" in Haitian Creole can also mean "left" or "opposite". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, gabas refers not only to cardinal directions, but also to an eastern region, a river, or its tributaries. |
| Hawaiian | The word 'hikina' comes from the Proto-Polynesian word '*fiki', meaning 'to emerge', so it also refers to sunrise or east in many Polynesian languages. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מזרחי" refers not only to the direction east, but also to Jews of Middle Eastern or North African descent. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "पूर्व का" comes from Sanskrit "पूर्व" meaning "east" or "early; first." |
| Hmong | The word "sab hnub tuaj" can also mean "morning" or "sunrise". |
| Hungarian | Some historians suggest "keleti" is related to the word "kelte," meaning "rise," in the sense of sunrise. |
| Icelandic | Austur shares similar origins to the English words "east" and "eastern," having derived from an Indo-European root word meaning "to shine." |
| Igbo | The word "owuwa anyanwu" literally translates to "the face of the sun" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | Timur is also the Indonesian name for East Timor. |
| Irish | The word "thoir" in Irish is also a verb meaning "to give" or "to bestow." |
| Italian | "Orientale" is also used in Italian to refer to the exotic, far-off lands of the East, as well as to the cultures and traditions of those regions. |
| Japanese | "東部" (tōbu) is a homonym, referring both to the east side and to the eastern part of a country. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word 'wetan' also means 'the place of the rising sun' and is related to the Sanskrit word 'veda' (knowledge). |
| Kannada | The word “ಪೂರ್ವ” (“poorva”) also means “previous” (in time). |
| Kazakh | The word "шығыс" not only means "eastern" but also refers to "the east, the place where the sun rises". |
| Khmer | "ខាងកើត" can also refer to "the direction of the rising sun" or "the place where the sun rises". |
| Korean | The same term can also mean "masculinity" or the direction "right". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "rohilatî" is etymologically related to the Arabic word "rūḥ", which means "wind" or "spirit." |
| Kyrgyz | The word “чыгыш” in Kyrgyz can also refer to "speech" or "presentation." |
| Latin | "Orientem" in Latin can also refer to the "rising sun" or the "east" as a cardinal direction. |
| Latvian | In addition to referring to the East, 'Austrumu' also carries connotations of 'sunrise' and 'beginning'. |
| Lithuanian | The word "rytų" in Lithuanian can also refer to the Slavic word "rito", meaning "to speak". |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "ëstlech" is derived from the Proto-West Germanic word "*austlijaz", meaning "eastern" and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European word "*h₂ews-", meaning "to dawn, east". |
| Macedonian | The word "источна" (eastern) in Macedonian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *vostokъ, which also means "sunrise" or "the east". |
| Malagasy | Eoropa comes from the Arabic word "ash-sharq", also meaning "east" or "sunrise". |
| Malay | "Timur" also has the connotation "rising" or "ascending", which is why the sun's direction is sometimes known as "matahari naik ke timur", meaning "the sun is rising in the east". |
| Malayalam | "കിഴക്ക്" means south or south-east in Tamil, and has no relation with the compass |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "tal-Lvant" is derived from the Arabic word "al-Sharq", meaning "the east", and can also be used figuratively to refer to the "rising sun" or "new beginnings". |
| Maori | The word "rawhiti" also refers to the star Arcturus, the "watcher of the east". |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "पूर्व" (pūrva) also means "to the front" or "the beginning". |
| Mongolian | "Зүүн" also means "the left side" or "the left hand". |
| Nepali | The word "पूर्वी" also means "previous" or "former" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | The word "østlig" can also mean "oriental" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kummawa" can also refer to "sunrise" or the "orient" in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "ختیځ" (eastern) also means "left" or "on the left hand side". |
| Persian | The word "شرقی" (sharqi) also means "oriental" or "musically resonant", deriving from a combination of the words "شرق" (sharq, meaning "east") and "قی" (qi, meaning "sound" or "resonance"). |
| Polish | Wschodni might also refer to a region or a wind direction. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Oriental" can also refer to people from Timor-Leste or Macau in Portuguese (especially in Portugal). |
| Punjabi | "Puraabi", meaning "easterner, from the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent" (often referring specifically by historical context to Bengalis in particular and by stereotype as "outsiders" or "refugees"), in Punjabi, likely finds an origin in early 19th or late 18th century Punjabi vocabulary, as an adoption (loanword/colloquialism) likely arising via Persian (and subsequently Urdu) as "puraabi/puravi" (a word for "east/eastern/easterner") in the context of Bengali laborers arriving to Punjab to settle and/or conduct their work, likely via the port/harbor town, and historical trade-hub, known today as Karachi. |
| Romanian | The word "estic" also means "beautiful" in Romanian, reflecting its historical association with the sunrise and the East. |
| Russian | The word "восточный" also means "oriental" and can refer to the Middle East and East Asia. |
| Samoan | The word "sasaʻe" is also used to refer to the left side of the body or the left direction. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Ulster Scots, "sear" may also mean "sure" or "certain". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "источни" (eastern) originates from the Proto-Slavic word "vъstokъ", which also meant "sunrise" and "beginning". |
| Sesotho | The word 'bochabela' in Sesotho derives from 'bochabela', meaning 'to come from east'. |
| Shona | The word 'kumabvazuva' can also refer to the direction of the sunrise, which is the east. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, "مشرقي" also refers to a dish made with eggplant and chickpeas, providing a culinary association with the "East". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The term can mean the East or sunrise in a broader sense |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "Východná" can also refer to a specific village in Slovakia. |
| Slovenian | The noun "vzhod" ("east" in English) also has the alternate meaning of "sunrise" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | Somali "bari" also exists in Cushitic Oromo where it refers to any of four cardinal directions and means "toward, in direction of". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "oriental" (meaning "eastern") can also refer to people or things from Asia, and, formerly, to people or things from the Middle East |
| Sundanese | Wétan can also refer to the morning, as the east is where the sun rises. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word 'mashariki' can also refer to the direction towards which one prays in the Islamic faith. |
| Swedish | The word "östra" comes from Old Norse "austr", meaning "east" or "sunrise". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "silangan" in Tagalog can also refer to the act of weaving together or crossing over. |
| Tajik | The word "шарқӣ" (eastern) in Tajik also means "musical genre" or "musical instrument". |
| Tamil | In Tamil, the word "கிழக்கு" (kilakku) also refers to the "rising sun" and "the place where the sun rises". |
| Telugu | తూర్పు (tūrpu) is also used to refer to the east direction or the eastern part of something. |
| Thai | "ตะวันออก" (eastern) comes from the Sun's rise in the east. |
| Turkish | "Doğu" kelimesi Türkçede hem "doğu" yönünü hem de "güneşin doğduğu yer" anlamına gelir. |
| Ukrainian | The adjective “східний” can also mean “oriental”, denoting the ancient civilizations of the Middle East. |
| Urdu | The word مشرقی "eastern" in Urdu derives from the Arabic origin "mashriq" which means "the east" or "the place where the sun rises." |
| Uzbek | The word "sharqiy" in Uzbek can also refer to a type of traditional Uzbek folk music, characterized by its lively rhythm and upbeat melodies. |
| Vietnamese | The word "phương Đông" in Vietnamese can also refer to the direction "east" or the "Oriental" region. |
| Welsh | "Dwyreiniol" can also refer to the right side of the human body or the right-hand side of a place, as "de" means "right" or "south". |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word “empuma” has a double meaning and can also refer to old age. |
| Yiddish | The word מזרח may refer to either east or southeast in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The word 'ila-oorun' means 'east' in Yoruba, and it can also refer to the 'direction of the rising sun'. |
| Zulu | Empumalanga, meaning "the place where the sun rises," derives from the Zulu words "empuma" (east) and "langa" (sun). |
| English | "Eastern" also refers to nations or parts of the world influenced by Eastern religions, philosophies, or culture. |