Alan

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by Rukhabot (talk | contribs) as of 06:02, 29 October 2019.
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: alan, ałan, alaŋ, a lán, and alán

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.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Alan (plural Alans)

  1. 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.
Derived terms
Translations

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

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Alan (plural Alans or Alani)

  1. (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.
Translations

Anagrams


Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lua error in Module:cs-sk-headword at line 198: Invalid gender: 'm'; must specify animacy along with masculine gender

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alan.

Declension

Template:cs-decl-noun-auto


Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English Alan.

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

  1. a male given name from English, equivalent to English Alan.

Slovak

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lua error in Module:cs-sk-headword at line 198: Invalid gender: 'm'; must specify animacy along with masculine gender

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alan.

Declension

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

  1. a male given name