Alan
English
Etymology 1
From Old Breton Alan, name of early Breton saints, of disputed origin and meaning; brought to England by Normans. It may have been the name of a Celtic deity, the brother of Bran, Welsh Alawn, Celtic Alun, ‘harmony’. As an early Irish name, perhaps connected with ail (“noble”). Compare French Alain.
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Alan (plural Alans)
- A male given name from the Celtic languages.
- 1951 translation by Nevill Coghill of: 13?? Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales: The Reeve's Tale:
- He grabbed at Alan by his Adam's apple,
- And Alan grabbed him back in furious grapple
- And clenched his fist and bashed him on the nose.
- 1910 P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs, and Other Stories, BiblioBazaar, LLC 2008, →ISBN, page 24:
- I could pose as an artist all right; so I took the studio. Also the name of Alan Beverley. My own is Bill Bates. I had often wondered what it would feel like to be called by some name like Alan Beverley or Cyril Trevelyan.
- 1951 translation by Nevill Coghill of: 13?? Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales: The Reeve's Tale:
Derived terms
Translations
male given name
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Etymology 2
From Latin Alānī, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS..
Noun
- (historical) A member of a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.
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Translations
member of a Sarmatian tribe
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Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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- a male given name, equivalent to English Alan.
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Brazil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈa.lɐ̃/, /a.ˈlɐ̃/
Proper noun
Alan m
- a male given name from English, equivalent to English Alan.
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Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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- a male given name, equivalent to English Alan.
Declension
Declension of Alan
Further reading
- “Alan”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
Turkish
Proper noun
Alan
- a male given name
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