Arran

See also: arran

English

Etymology 1

From a Brythonic or Celtic language, but the name is ultimately probably of non-Indo-European (substrate) or Pictish origin, along with other uncertain names in Scotland such as Skye, Lewis, and Islay. Possibly from a Brythonic/Pictish term ancestral or cognate to Middle Welsh aran (“"high place"”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɹən/
• Rhymes: -æɹən
• Homophones: Aran, Erin, Aaron

Proper noun

Arran

1. Short for Isle of Arran, Scotland.
2. A male given name transferred from the place name, of modern Scottish usage.
3. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
4. Synonym of Arranmore (island in County Donegal, Ireland)

Translations

Isle of Arran

• Portuguese: Arran f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: А́рран m (Árran)
• Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Arainn m

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian *ʾldʾn (/⁠arrān⁠/). Compare Parthian 𐭀𐭓𐭃𐭀𐭍 (ʾrdʾn /⁠ardān⁠/). Ultimately from an unknown source, underlying also Old Armenian Աղուանք (Ałuankʻ) and Ancient Greek Ἀλβανία (Albanía).

Alternative forms

• Aran

Proper noun

Arran

1. (historical) In post-Islamic times, a region of eastern Transcaucasia, laying between the Rivers Kura and Araxes, in what is now the Republic of Azerbaijan and the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh, corresponding to the territory of Caucasian Albania on the right bank of River Kura which was disattached from Greater Armenia in 387 AD. In pre-Islamic times, the term was used for the whole of Caucasian Albania.

Translations

region of eastern Transcaucasia — see also Caucasian Albania

• Arabic: أَرَّان f (ʔarrān), الرَّان f (ar-rān)
• Armenian: Առան (Aṙan)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Georgian: არანი (arani), რანი (rani)
• Persian: اران (fa) (Arān), ران (fa) (Rān)

Further reading

• Arran (Caucasus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bosworth, C. E. (1986) “Arrān”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York
• Frye, R. N. (1960) “Arrān”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, pages 660–661

Anagrams

• narra

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Arran f

1. Arran (an island in Scotland)

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Scottish Gaelic

Proper noun

Arran

1. a male given name

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Arran	n-Arran	h-Arran	t-Arran
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.