Oran

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oran"

English

Etymology 1

Ultimately Borrowed from Arabic وَهْرَان (wahrān), from a Berber term meaning "lion".

Proper noun

Oran

1. A city, port, and province of Algeria.
   • 2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 December 2024:

     We see documentary footage (the trudging homeless) and an animated map—an inky line movies from Paris to Marseilles, from there to Oran, and finally to Casablanca, where the lucky ones escape via Lisbon and the rest “wait…and wait…and wait.”

Derived terms

• Oranian

Translations

port city in Algeria

• Arabic: وَهْرَان f (wahrān)
• Azerbaijani: Vəhran
• Catalan: Orà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奧蘭 / 奥兰 (zh) (Àolán)

• French: Oran (fr) m
• Galician: Orán m
• Hindi: ओरान m (orān)
• Hungarian: Orán (hu)
• Italian: Orano (it) m
• Japanese: オラン (Oran)
• Kabyle: ⵡⴻⵂⵔⴰⵏ (Wehran)
• Korean: 오란 (olan)
• Occitan: Oran m
• Persian: وهران (vahrân)
• Polish: Oran (pl) m
• Russian: Ора́н m (Orán)
• Spanish: Orán (es) m
• Tajik: Ваҳрон (Vahron)
• Urdu: وَہْران (vahrān)
• Uzbek: Vahron

Etymology 2

Anglicized from Old Irish saints' name Odrán, diminutive of odur (“dun, sallow”) (compare Irish Odhrán).

Proper noun

Oran

1. A male given name from Irish.

See also

• Oran Park

Anagrams

• Arno, NRAO, roan, Anor, Naro, Rona, Nora, 'rona, Aron, rona, RONA

Polish

Oran

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ran/

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• Rhymes: -ɔran
• Syllabification: O‧ran

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic وهران.

Proper noun

Oran m inan (related adjective orański)

1. Oran (a city in Algeria)

Declension

Declension of Oran

	singular
nominative	Oran
genitive	Oranu
dative	Oranowi
accusative	Oran
instrumental	Oranem
locative	Oranie
vocative	Oranie

Derived terms

nouns

• oranka
• orańczyk

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

Oran nvir pl

1. genitive plural of Orany

Further reading

• “Oran”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Oran in PWN's encyclopedia

Turkish

Proper noun

Oran

1. a male given name