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search  The Orient means the East. It is a traditional
designation for anything that belongs to the Eastern world or
the Middle East (aka Near East) or the Far East, in relation to
Europe. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous
with, the Continent of Asia.   The term "Orient" derives from
the Latin word oriens (Orion) meaning "east" (lit. "rising" <
orior " rise"). The use of the word for "rising" to refer to the
east (where the sun rises) has analogs from many languages:
compare the terms "Levant" (< French levant "rising"), "Vostok"
Russian: Восток (< Russian voskhod Russian: восход "sunrise"),
"Anatolia" (< Greek anatole), "mizrahi" in Hebrew ("zriha"
meaning sunrise), "sharq" Arabic: شرق‎ (< Arabic yashriq يشرق
"rise", shurūq Arabic: شروق‎ "rising"), "shygys" Kazakh: шығыс
(< Kazakh shygu Kazakh: шығу "come out"), Turkish: doğu (<
Turkish doğumak to be born; to rise), Chinese: (pinyin: dōng, a
pictograph of the sun rising behind