Urban

See also: urban

English

Etymology

Latin Urbānus, name of eight early popes, from urbānus (“of the town or city, urbane”).

Proper noun

Urban

  1. (uncommon) A male given name.
  2. A patronymic surname​.
  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.

Translations

Anagrams

Czech

Proper noun

Urban m

  1. A Czech surname.

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈur.ban/
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

Urban m pers, f

  1. A masculine surname​.
  2. A feminine surname​.

Declension

Masculine surname:

The feminine surname is indeclinable.

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈurban/

Proper noun

Urban m (genitive Urbana, nominative plural Urbanovia) declension pattern chlap

  1. A male given name..

Declension

Further reading

  • Urban in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /urˈbán/, /urˈbáːn/
  • Tonal orthography: urbȁn, urbȃn

Proper noun

Urbàn m anim (genitive Urbána)

  1. A male given name., cognate to English Urban.

Declension

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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