Douglas

English

Etymology

From a place name, Goidelic [[dubh#Template:cel-gae|dubh]] (“black”) + glas (“stream”).

Proper noun

Douglas

1. A Scottish surname.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. The capital of the Isle of Man.

Related terms

• (given name): Doug, Dougie, Douglass

Quotations

• 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1: Act IV, Scene V:

  The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw

  The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him

  The noble Percy slain, and all his men

  Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest.

• 1756 John Home, Douglas: A Tragedy, Prologue

  Douglas, a name through all the world renown'd,

  A name that rouses like the trumpet's sound!

• 1960 Muriel Spark, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, New Directions Publishing, 1999, page 68-69

  'Just call me Dougal,' said Dougal.

  'Douglas,' she said, pronouncing it 'Dooglass'.

  'No, Dougal - Douglas is my surname.'

  'Oh, Dougal Douglas. Dougal's the first name.'

Translations

male given name

• Irish: Dúghlas (ga) m

• Scottish Gaelic: Dùghlas (gd) m

capital of the Isle of Man

• French: Douglas (fr)

• Irish: Dúglas (ga)
• Manx: Doolish (gv)

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French

Proper noun

Douglas

1. Douglas (in the Isle of Man)