# 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: /ˈiː.stən/
* (US) IPA: /ˈi.stɚn/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːstə(ɹ)n

### Adjective

eastern (comparative more eastern, superlative most eastern)
* 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, 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.$^{196}$
* (of a wind) Blowing from the east; easterly.
* (loosely) Oriental.

#### Derived terms

* Australian Eastern Daylight Time
* Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
* eastern baccharis
* eastern banjo frog
* eastern bearded dragon
* Eastern Bloc
* Eastern Bontok
* Eastern Buyagan
* eastern buzzard
* eastern columbine
* eastern coneflower
* eastern cottonwood
* eastern crevice skink
* eastern crown
* eastern curlew
* Eastern Desert
* eastern equine encephalitis
* easterner
* Eastern Europe
* Eastern Front
* eastern gorilla
* eastern gray squirrel
* eastern green drake
* eastern grey kangaroo
* eastern hemisphere
* eastern hemlock
* Eastern Herzegovinian
* eastern imperial eagle
* eastern indigo snake
* easternisation
* easternise
* easternism
* easternization
* easternize
* eastern jackrabbit
* eastern kingsnake
* easternly
* easternmost
* easternness
* Eastern Norway
* eastern olivaceous warbler
* eastern Orphean warbler
* Eastern Pacific giant conch
* Eastern parotia
* eastern poison ivy
* eastern ratsnake
* eastern redbud
* eastern red cedar
* eastern ringed xenica
* eastern rosella
* Eastern Rumelia
* eastern spinebill
* eastern spotted skunk
* eastern tarantula
* eastern tent caterpillar
* Eastern Theater
* Eastern Townships
* Eastern Wao
* eastern water dragon
* eastern white pine
* eastern wolf
* eastern wood pewee
* eastern yellow robin
* eastern yellow wagtail
* Far Eastern Federal District
* Mideastern
* noneastern
* north-eastern
* south-eastern

#### Translations

Albanian: lindor (sq)
Arabic: شَرْقِيّ (šarqiyy)
Egyptian Arabic: شرقي (šarʔi)
Hijazi Arabic: شَرْقي (šargi)
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)
Ingrian: itäin
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 (şyğys)
Khmer: ខាងកើត (khaang kaət)
Korean: 동(東)쪽의 (dongjjog-ui)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: rojhilatî (ku)
Kyrgyz: чыгыштык (ky) (cıgıştık), чыгыш (ky) (cıgış)
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)
Odia: ପୂର୍ବୀୟ (or) (purbiya)
Ottoman Turkish: شرقی (şarkî)
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
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: please add this translation if you can
Upper Sorbian: wuchodny (hsb)
Spanish: oriental (es), esteño (es)
Swedish: östra (sv), östlig (sv)
Tajik: шарқӣ (šarqi)
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) :

### See also

* northern
* southern
* western
* northeastern
* southeastern
* southwestern
* northwestern

### Anagrams

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