Urban

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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.

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Czech

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Urban m anim (feminine Urbanová)

  1. a male surname

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈur.ban/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -urban
  • Syllabification: Ur‧ban

Proper noun

Urban m pers

  1. a male surname

Declension

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

Proper noun

Urban f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed 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

Slovak

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Urban m anim (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 Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /urbán/, /urbáːn/

Proper noun

Urbȁn or Urbȃn m anim

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Urban

Inflection

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nominative Urbàn
genitive Urbána
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		Urbàn
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		—
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		—
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		—
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		Urbánu
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		Urbánom

Swedish

Proper noun

Urban c (genitive Urbans)

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

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