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English
Etymology
From Middle English westerne , from Old English westerne , from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz .
Morphologically west + -ern .
Pronunciation
Adjective
western (not comparable )
Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west .
the western approaches
1918 , W B Maxwell , chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp , Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company , →OCLC :Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, [ …] , down the nave to the western door. [ …] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
( of a wind ) Blowing from the west; westerly .
Occidental .
2008 , Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese , →ISBN , page 31 :Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki ) and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western style, in horizontal lines (yokogaki ) from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our (western ) understanding of the front.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
pertaining to the west
Albanian: perëndimor (sq)
Arabic: غَرْبِيّ ( ḡarbiyy )
Armenian: արևմտյան (hy) ( arewmtyan )
Azerbaijani: qərbi , qərb (az)
Belarusian: захо́дні ( zaxódni )
Bengali: পশ্চিমা (bn) ( pościma ) , পশ্চিমী ( pościmi )
Bulgarian: за́паден ( západen )
Burmese: အနောက် (my) ( a.nauk )
Catalan: occidental (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 西方 的 ( xīfāng de ) , 西 (zh) ( xī )
Czech: západní (cs)
Danish: vestlig (da)
Dutch: westelijk (nl) , westers (nl)
Esperanto: okcidenta
Estonian: lääne- , läänelik (et)
Finnish: länsi - , läntinen (fi) ( concretely ) , länsimainen (fi) ( culturally or politically )
French: occidental (fr) m
Galician: occidental (gl) m or f
Georgian: დასავლური ( dasavluri ) , დასავლეთის ( dasavletis )
German: westlich (de) , West -
Greek: δυτικός (el) ( dytikós )
Ancient: δυτικός ( dutikós )
Gujarati: આથમણું ( āthamṇũ )
Hebrew: מַעֲרָבִי (he) ( ma'araví )
Hindi: पश्चिमी (hi) ( paścimī )
Hungarian: nyugati (hu)
Icelandic: vestur (is)
Ingrian: länsiin
Irish: thiar , an iarthair
Italian: occidentale (it)
Japanese: 西 の ( にしの, nishi no ) , 西方 の ( せいほうの, seihō no )
Kazakh: батыс ( batys )
Khmer: ខាងលិច ( khaang lɨc )
Korean: 서쪽의 (ko) ( seojjogui )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: rojavayî (ku)
Kyrgyz: батыштык (ky) ( batıştık ) , батыш (ky) ( batış )
Lao: ຕາເວັນຕົກ ( tā wen tok )
Latin: occidentalis (la) m or f , occidentale n
Latvian: rietumu
Lithuanian: vakarinis , vakarų
Macedonian: западен ( zapaden )
Malayalam: പടിഞ്ഞാറൻ (ml) ( paṭiññāṟaṉ )
Maori: māuru
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vestlig (no) , vestre (no)
Nynorsk: vestleg , vestre
Occitan: occidental (oc)
Pashto: غربي (ps) ( ǧarbi )
Persian: غربی (fa) ( ğarbi )
Polish: zachodni (pl)
Portuguese: ocidental (pt)
Romanian: vestic (ro) m or n , occidental (ro) m or n , apusean (ro) m or n
Russian: за́падный (ru) m ( západnyj )
Scottish Gaelic: siar , an iar
Serbo-Croatian: zapadnjački (sh) m
Cyrillic: за̑паднӣ
Roman: zȃpadnī (sh)
Slovak: západný (sk)
Slovene: zahoden
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: please add this translation if you can
Upper Sorbian: zapadny (hsb)
Spanish: occidental (es) , oesteño
Swedish: västlig (sv)
Tajik: ғарбӣ ( ġarbi )
Tatar: көнбатыш (tt) ( könbatış )
Telugu: పడమటి (te) ( paḍamaṭi )
Thai: ตะวันตก (th) ( dtà-wan-dtòk )
Turkish: batı (tr) , batısal
Turkmen: günbatar
Udmurt: ӝытпал ( džytpal )
Ukrainian: за́хідний (uk) ( záxidnyj )
Urdu: مَغْرِبی (ur) ( maġribī ) , غَرْبی (ur) ( ġarbī )
Uyghur: غەربىي ( gherbiy )
Uzbek: gʻarbiy (uz)
Vietnamese: tây (vi)
Volapük: vesüdik (vo) , vesüdänik (vo)
Welsh: gorllewinol (cy)
Yiddish: מערבֿדיק ( mayrevdik )
Noun
western (plural westerns )
( film ) A film , or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians , lawmen and outlaws , ranchers and farmers , or industry (railroads , mining ) and agriculture.
Synonyms: horse opera , oater
Coordinate term: northern
Derived terms
Translations
film or other dramatic work
Arabic: (please verify ) غَرْبِيّ m ( ḡarbiyy ) , وِيسْتَرْن ( wēstarn ) , الْغَرْب (ar) m ( al-ḡarb ) , فِيلْم غَرْب أَمْرِيكِيّ m ( fīlm ḡarb ʔamrīkiyy )
Armenian: վեստերն (hy) ( vestern )
Azerbaijani: vestern
Belarusian: ве́стэрн m ( vjéstern ) , вэ́стэрн m ( véstern )
Bulgarian: уе́стърн m ( uéstǎrn )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 西部片 (zh) ( xībùpiàn ) , 西部 電影 / 西部 电影 ( xībù diànyǐng )
Czech: western (cs) m
Danish: westernfilm c , western c
Dutch: western (nl) m ; cowboyfilm (nl) m , wildwestfilm (nl) m ( film ) ; wildwestverhaal (nl) n ( story )
Finnish: lännenfilmi (fi) ( film ) ; lännentarina ( story ) ; länkkäri (fi) ( any dramatic work )
French: western (fr) m
Georgian: ვესტერნი ( vesṭerni )
German: Western (de) m
Greek: γουέστερν (el) n ( gouéstern )
Hebrew: מַעֲרָבוֹן m ( ma'arávon )
Hindi: वॅस्टर्न ( vĕsṭarn )
Hungarian: westernfilm (hu)
Icelandic: vestri m
Irish: iartharán m
Italian: western (it) m
Japanese: 西部劇 ( せいぶげき, seibugeki ) , ウエスタン ( uesutan ) , ウェスタン ( wesutan )
Khmer: កុនខោវប៊យ ( kon khaowbɔɔy )
Korean: 서부극(西部劇) (ko) ( seobugeuk ) , 웨스턴 ( weseuteon ) , 서부영화(西部映畫) (ko) ( seobuyeonghwa )
Latvian: vesterns m
Lithuanian: vesternas m
Macedonian: вестерн m ( vestern )
Maori: pikitia kaupoai
Norwegian:
Bokmål: western (no) m , villvestfilm m , westernfilm m
Nynorsk: western m , villvestfilm m , westernfilm m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: وِسْتِرْن ( vestern )
Polish: western (pl) m
Portuguese: faroeste (pt) m , bangue-bangue (pt) m ( Brazil, colloquial )
Russian: ве́стерн (ru) m ( vɛ́stɛrn )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѐстерн m , каубојски филм m , каубо́јац m
Roman: western m , vèstern (sh) m , kaubojski film m , kaubójac (sh) m
Slovak: western m , indiánka f
Spanish: western (es) m
Swedish: västern (sv) c , western (sv) c , västernfilm (sv) c
Ukrainian: ве́стерн m ( véstern )
Urdu: ویسْٹَرْن ( vesṭarn )
See also
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
From English western , from Old English westerne , from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz .
Pronunciation
Noun
western
( film ) a western
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:western .
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English western .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈʋɛs.tərn/
Hyphenation: wes‧tern
Noun
western m (plural westerns )
western ( work set in the Old West )
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
< English western
Pronunciation
Noun
western
western ( film or other dramatic work set in American West )
Synonyms: länkkäri , lännenfilmi
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English western .
Pronunciation
Noun
western m (plural westerns )
western ( film genre )
Further reading
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English western .[ 1]
Pronunciation
Noun
western (plural westernek )
western ( film genre )
Declension
References
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English western .
Pronunciation
Noun
western m (invariable )
western ( film genre )
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English western .
Noun
western m (definite singular westernen , indefinite plural westerner , definite plural westernene )
a western ( film or movie, novel )
Derived terms
See also
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English western .
Noun
western m (definite singular westernen , indefinite plural westernar , definite plural westernane )
a western ( film or movie, novel )
Derived terms
See also
References
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English western .
Pronunciation
Noun
western m inan (related adjective westernowy )
western ( adventure film set in the Wild West in the 19th century )
Declension
Further reading
western in Wielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
western in Polish dictionaries at PWN
western in PWN's encyclopedia
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English western .
Noun
western n (plural westernuri )
western film
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English western .
Noun
western m (plural westerns )
Misspelling of wéstern .
Swedish
Noun
western c
a western (movie)
Derived terms
References