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Aaron
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aaron Aarón Aäron
English
+ (given name)
Etymology
en :bor la:Aaron 1
From en la Aaron, from en grc Ἀαρών, from en he אַהֲרֹן ʾAhărōn, of unknown meaning, possibly meaning “bearer of martyrs”, or perhaps also, or instead, related to the Ancient Egyptian egy ꜥḥꜣ rw warrior lion, though it has been suggested to also mean “elevated”, “exalted” or “high mountain”. en Harun.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɛəɹ.ən/ /ˈæɹ.ən/ GenAm
en en-Aaron.ogg US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-Aaron.wav GA /ˈɛəɹ.ən/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-Aaron (alt).wav GA /ˈæɹ.ən/
en /ˈæ.ɹən/ /ˈɛə.ɹən/ RP
en ɛɹən æɹən 2
en Aran Arin Arran Arun Erin in some pronunciations
2 note on the pronunciation
The Hebrew etymon of Aaron, he אהרן, was pronounced /ahăron/; it was transliterated into Greek as grc Ἀαρών (/aaron/), and into Latin as la Aaron. In Ecclesiastical Latin, the name was and is pronounced with two separate a sounds.1937, Michael de Angelis, The correct pronunciation of Latin according to Roman usage
The pronunciation of the aa as a single sound, /ˈɛəɹən/ /ˈɛɹən/ /ˈæɹən/, originated when the Bible was anglicised, hence modern guides to the pronunciation of Biblical names, including those of the Church of England, the BBC,2006, L. Olausson and C. Sangster, Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation (Oxford University Press), page 1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/pronunciation?lang=eng Pronunciation Guide The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2013-05-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20190404004754/https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/pronunciation?lang=eng 4 April 2019 the Oxford English DictionaryOxford English Dictionary (2013) and Harper Collins1994, Bible Pronunciation Guide (edited by William O. Walker III, published by Harper Collins, 0060689625) specify the modern English pronunciation as /ɛəɹən/, where the first syllable sounds like the word en air.
The variant form en Aron (see Aron (name) Wikipedia) derives from the same Hebrew root, but via Scandinavian and/or Celtic languages; it is pronounced /ærən/ (like the unrelated but homophonous Celtic names en Aran and en Arran), for which reason en Aaron
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Aaron.wav Southern England is sometimes pronounced that way, too.
Proper noun
s
en Q51676en biblical character The elder brother of Moses in the Book of the Exodus, and in the Quran.
Exodus 4 14 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and hee said, Is not Aaron the Leuite thy brother? I know that he can speake well.
en male Hebrew.
en 1969 w:Philip Roth Portnoy's Complaint 145 Random House 2002 - - - the Junior Prom with boys whose names are right out of the grade-school reader, not Aaron and Arnold and Marvin, but Johnny and Billy and Jimmy and Tod. Not Portnoy or Pincus, but Smith and Jones and Brown!
en Sam Joseph Aaron Rodgers writes off this season as ‘lost year,’ but quarterback says he feels ‘I can play more years’ in NFL w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/20/sport/aaron-rodgers-season-over-ny-jets-spt-intl 2023-12-20 Superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who ruptured his left Achilles tendon just four snaps into his New York Jets career, has written off this season as a “lost year,” though he feels he can “play more years” in the NFL. https://web.archive.org/web/20240119113148/https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/20/sport/aaron-rodgers-season-over-ny-jets-spt-intl/
en given names.
Usage notes
The given name was exclusively Jewish in the Middle Ages, taken up by Gentiles in the 17th century, and popular among both at the end of the 20th century.
Derived terms
en Aaronic Aaronid Aaronite Aaron's beard Aaron's bells Aarons Pass Aaron's rod Aaron's serpent
Related terms
nonstandard spellings of given name en Aaren, en Aron, en Arron
patronymic surname of given name Aaronson
Descendants
ar آرون arūn
ja アーロン Āron
Translations
biblical brother of Moses
Arabic: ar هَارُون m
Armenian: hy Ահարոն
Bengali: bn হারূন harūn
Burmese: my အာရုန်
Catalan: ca Aaró
Cherokee: chr ᎡᎵᏂ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 亞倫 Yàlún
Comorian:
Maore Comorian: swb Haruna
Ngazidja Comorian: zdj Haruna
Coptic: cop ⲁⲁⲣⲱⲛ
Danish: da Aron
Dutch: nl Aäron
Esperanto: eo Aarono
Estonian: et Aaron
Finnish: fi Aaron
French: fr Aaron
Old French: fro Aaron
German: de Aaron
Gothic: got 𐌰𐌷𐌰𐍂𐍉𐌽 m
Greek: el Ααρών m
Ancient Greek: grc Ἀαρών m
Hausa: ha Haruna
Hebrew: he אַהֲרֹן m ’Ahărōn
Hindi: hi हारून m
Irish: ga Árón m
Italian: it Aronne m
Kazakh: kk Һарұн
Korean: ko ^아론
Malay: ms Harun
Maltese: mt Aron m
Māori: mi Arona
Marathi: mr अहरोन m, mr हारून m
Norwegian: no Aron
Polish: pl Aaron m-pr
Portuguese: pt Aarão m
Russian: ru Ааро́н m
Serbo-Croatian: sh Aron m
Spanish: es Aarón m
Swedish: sv Aron
Thai: th แอรอน
Tibetan: bo ཨ་རོན m
Turkish: tr Harun, tr Arun, tr Arun Ârun
Ottoman Turkish: ota هَارُون
male given name
Arabic: ar هَارُون
Armenian: hy Ահարոն
Bengali: bn হারূন harūn
Catalan: ca Aaró
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 亞倫 Yàlún
Coptic: cop ⲁⲣⲱⲛ
Danish: da Aron
Dutch: nl Aäron
Estonian: et Aaron
Faroese: fo Áron m
Finnish: fi Aaro
French: fr Aaron
Galician: gl Aarón
German: de Aaron
Greek: el Ααρών
Hausa: ha Haruna
Hawaiian: haw ʻĀʻālona
Hebrew: he אַהֲרֹן ’Ahărōn
Hindi: hi ऐरॉन m
Hungarian: hu Áron
Indonesian: id Harun
Irish: ga Árón, ga Aaron
Italian: it Aronne
Kazakh: kk Арон
Latin: la Aaron
Lithuanian: lt Aronas m
Malay: ms Harun
Maltese: mt Aronn
Māori: mi Ārona
Norwegian: no Aron
Old Nubian: onw ⲁⲁⲣⲱⲛ
Polish: pl Aaron m-pr
Portuguese: pt Aarão
Russian: ru Ааро́н
Serbo-Croatian: sh Aron m
Spanish: es Aarón
Swedish: sv Aron
Turkish: tr Harun, tr Arun
Yiddish: yi אהרן arn
Noun
en archaic thieves' cant The leader of a group of thieves.1 2
Synonyms
See Thesaurus:criminal leader
References
Anagrams
en aanor Roana
Catalan
Alternative forms
ca Aaró
Pronunciation
ó
Proper noun
m
ca male Aaron Hebrew
Estonian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
et proper noun
en Aaron biblical figure
et male Aaron Hebrew
et Biblical characters
Finnish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Ultimately from fi grc Ἀαρών, from fi hbo אַהֲרֹן ʾAhărōn.
Proper noun
Aaron biblical figure
fi male Aaron Biblical Hebrew
Declension
Aaron a 0
Derived terms
fi compounds Aaro Ari aaroninparta aaroninsauva
Statistics
dvv_20250813 3725 4038 170 6 10
Etymology 2
Proper noun
fi proper noun form
fi Aaro gen s
References
Anagrams
fi aanor Aarno arona oraan orana
fi Biblical characters
French
Pronunciation
aron
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-Aaron.wav <<France>> (<<Toulouse>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Aaron.wav France
Proper noun
m
en Aaron biblical figure
fr male Aaron Hebrew
fr Biblical characters
German
Pronunciation
de [ˈʔaːʀɔn] [ˈaːʁɔn]
de De-Aaron.ogg
de De-Aaron2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
m
de biblical characters Aaron
de male Aaron Hebrew
Related terms
de Aron
Latin
Alternative forms
la Ārōn Aharōn
Etymology
la Aarōn :bor grc:Ἀαρών 2 1
Pronunciation
Aarōn
Proper noun
((Aarōn<0>,Aarōn<3>)) m
la Ecclesiastical Latin Aaron biblical figure
la Tertullian Adversus Marcionem 22 15 In qua facie ad faciem visibilem se ei repromiserat, etiam ad Aaronem dicens He promised that he would be visible to him face to face, even saying to Aaron
Declension
((Aarōn<0>,Aarōn<3>))
Descendants
1 ca Aaró Aaron
1 zh 亞倫 Yàlún, Yǎlún
1 da Aron
1 nl Aäron
1 en Aaron
1 et Aaron
1 fo Aron
1 fi Aaron Aron
1 fr Aaron
1 de Aaron
1 hu Áron
1 is Aron
1 ga Árón
1 it Aronne
1 ko ^아론
1 lt Aronas
1 mt Aronn
1 mi Arona
1 se Áron
1 no Aron
1 pl Aaron
1 pt Aarão
1 ru Ааро́н Аро́н
1 kk Арон
1 es Aarón
1 sv Aron
Further reading
la Biblical characters
Malay
Etymology
From ms en Aaron, from ms la Aaron, from ms grc Ἀαρών, from ms he אַהֲרֹן ʾAhărōn. ms Harun.
Pronunciation
ms [ɛ.rən]
ms rən ən 2
ms Aa ron
Proper noun
ايرن
ms male English
Old English
Etymology
From ang la Aarōn, from ang hbo אַהֲרֹן Ahărōn.
Pronunciation
Āarōn
Proper noun
Āarōn m
ang biblical character Aaron
c. 1050, Old English Hexateuch, Deuteronomy 9:20
ang Hē wæs yrre wiþ Aaron and wolde hine fordōn and ic ġebæd for hyne And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl :lbor la:Aarōn + 1
Pronunciation
aron Pl-#.ogg Aa.ron aron,Aron
Proper noun
m-pr Aaronek Aaronowy
pl uncountable Biblical character en Aaron elder brother of Moses in the Book of the Exodus, and in the Quran
pl countable rare pl male Latin < Ancient Greek < Biblical Hebrew Aaron
pl Aron
Declension
Aaronowie
Derived terms
pl nouns Aaronita
Further reading
Tagalog
Etymology
tl es Aarón, from tl la Aarōn, from tl hbo אַהֲרֹן ʾAhărōn. tl Harun.
Pronunciation
A7arón Aron Eyron<qq:English influence><syll:Aa.ron>
Proper noun
Aarón,+ + Aron Eyron
tl Aaron Q51676
tl male Spanish < Latin
tl male English < Latin
Further reading