western

See also: Western

English

Etymology

From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.

Morphologically west +‎ -ern.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛstɚn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛstən/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
• Hyphenation: west‧ern

Adjective

western (not comparable)

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.

   the western approaches

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] 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.

2. (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
3. Occidental.
   • 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese‎^[1], →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.

Alternative forms

• Western

Derived terms

• Mid-Western
• pale western cutworm
• scrumpy and western
• South Western Slopes
• western action shooting
• western Asia
• Western Australia
• western barn owl
• western black-eared wheatear
• Western Bloc
• Western Bloc
• western blot analysis
• Western Canadian Select
• Western Cape
• western capercaillie
• western cattle egret
• western chinquapin
• western diamondback rattlesnake
• Western Downs
• westerner
• western fence lizard
• western gorilla
• western gray kangaroo
• western grey kangaroo
• western hemisphere
• western marsh harrier
• western mastiff bat
• Western Mound
• Western Norway
• western olivaceous warbler
• western omelet
• western Orphean warbler
• western osprey
• western pleasure
• western plum
• western poison ivy
• western poison oak
• western prickly juniper
• western rat snake
• western redbud
• western roe deer
• western sandpiper
• western slaty antshrike
• western spindalis (Spindalis zena)
• western spotted skunk
• western spruce budworm
• western subalpine warbler
• western sulphur
• western taipan
• western tanager
• western world
• western yellow pine
• western yellow wagtail

 

Descendants

• → Russian: ве́стерн (véstern)
  • → Kazakh: вестерн (vestern)
• → Serbo-Croatian: вестерн
• → Ukrainian: ве́стерн (véstern)

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: please add this translation if you can
• 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 (ġarbī)
• 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)

blowing from the west

• Armenian: արևմտյան (hy) (arewmtyan)
• Dutch: westelijk (nl)
• Finnish: länsi-, läntinen (fi)
• Georgian: დასავლეთის (dasavletis), დასავლეთიდან (dasavletidan)
• Norwegian: vestlig (no)
• Polish: zachodni (pl)
• Portuguese: ocidental (pt)
• Russian: за́падный (ru) m (západnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: zapadni (sh) m
• Swedish: västanvind (sv)
• Turkish: batı (tr), batısal

Noun

western (plural westerns)

1. 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

• spaghetti western

 

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
• Spanish: western (es) m
• Swedish: västern c, western (sv) c, västernfilm (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ве́стерн m (véstern)
• Urdu: ویسْٹَرْن (vesṭarn)

See also

• northern
• eastern
• southern

• north-eastern
• south-eastern
• south-western
• north-western

Anagrams

• enstrew

Cebuano

Etymology

From English western, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: wes‧tern

Noun

western

1. (film) a western

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:western.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɛs.tərn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: wes‧tern

Noun

western m (plural westerns)

1. western (work set in the Old West) [from early 20th c.]

Derived terms

• westernfilm
• westernverhaal

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɛs.tɛʁn/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

western m (plural westerns)

1. western (film genre)

Further reading

• “western”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛstɛrn]
• Hyphenation: west‧ern
• Rhymes: -ɛrn

Noun

western (plural westernek)

1. western (film genre)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	western	westernek
accusative	westernt	westerneket
dative	westernnek	westerneknek
instrumental	westernnel	westernekkel
causal-final	westernért	westernekért
translative	westernné	westernekké
terminative	westernig	westernekig
essive-formal	westernként	westernekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	westernben	westernekben
superessive	westernen	westerneken
adessive	westernnél	westerneknél
illative	westernbe	westernekbe
sublative	westernre	westernekre
allative	westernhez	westernekhez
elative	westernből	westernekből
delative	westernről	westernekről
ablative	westerntől	westernektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	westerné	westerneké
non-attributive possessive - plural	westernéi	westernekéi

Possessive forms of western
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	westernem	westernjeim
2nd person sing.	westerned	westernjeid
3rd person sing.	westernje	westernjei
1st person plural	westernünk	westernjeink
2nd person plural	westernetek	westernjeitek
3rd person plural	westernjük	westernjeik

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛ.stern/
• Rhymes: -ɛstern
• Hyphenation: wè‧stern

Noun

western m (invariable)

1. western (film genre)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westerner, definite plural westernene)

1. a western (film or movie, novel)

Derived terms

• spagettiwestern
• westernfilm

See also

• country and western

References

• “western” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “western” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westernar, definite plural westernane)

1. a western (film or movie, novel)

Derived terms

• spagettiwestern
• westernfilm

See also

• country and western

References

• “western” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛs.tɛrn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛstɛrn
• Syllabification: wes‧tern

Noun

western m inan (related adjective westernowy)

1. western (adventure film set in the Wild West in the 19th century)

Declension

Declension of western

	singular	plural
nominative	western	westerny
genitive	westernu	westernów
dative	westernowi	westernom
accusative	western	westerny
instrumental	westernem	westernami
locative	westernie	westernach
vocative	westernie	westerny

Related terms

nouns

• westernizacja

 

verbs

• westernizować impf
• zwesternizować pf

 

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)

1. western film

Declension

Declension of western

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) western	westernul	(niște) westernuri	westernurile
genitive/dative	(unui) western	westernului	(unor) westernuri	westernurilor
vocative	westernule		westernurilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (plural westerns)

1. Misspelling of wéstern.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• västern

Noun

western c

1. a western (movie)

Derived terms

• spaghettivästern (“spaghetti western”)

References

• western in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• western in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• western in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)