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Oran
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Appendix:Variations of "oran"
English
Pronunciation
en
Etymology 1
Ultimately en ar وَهْرَان, from a en ber term meaning "lion".
Proper noun
en city/port/and/province c/Algeria.
en Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen David Denby March 19, 2012 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/everybody-comes-to-ricks-casablanca-on-the-big-screen w:The New Yorker 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.” https://web.archive.org/web/20260910150409/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/everybody-comes-to-ricks-casablanca-on-the-big-screen 10 September 2026
Derived terms
en Oranian
Translations
port city in Algeria
Arabic: ar وَهْرَان f
Azerbaijani: az Vəhran
Catalan: ca Orà m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 奧蘭 Àolán
French: fr Oran m
Galician: gl Orán m
Hindi: hi ओरान m
Hungarian: hu Orán
Italian: it Orano m
Japanese: ja オラン Oran
Kabyle: kab ⵡⴻⵂⵔⴰⵏ Wehran
Korean: ko 오란
Occitan: oc Oran m
Persian: fa وهران vahrân
Polish: pl Oran m
Russian: ru Ора́н m
Spanish: es Orán m
Tajik: tg Ваҳрон
Urdu: ur وَہْران
Uzbek: uz Vahron
Etymology 2
Anglicized from en sga - saints' name sga Odrán, diminutive of sga odur dun, sallow (compare ga Odhrán).
Proper noun
en male Irish.
See also
Oran Park
Anagrams
en anor Arno NRAO roan Anor Naro Rona Nora 'rona Aron rona RONA
Polish
pl:
thumb|Oran
Pronunciation
LL-Q809 (pol)-Poemat-Oran.wav
Etymology 1
pl :bor ar:وهران + 1
Proper noun
m-in orański
pl city c/Algeria Oran
Declension
<m.inan.sg>
Derived terms
pl nouns oranka orańczyk
Etymology 2
pl 1
Proper noun
pl proper noun form nv-p
pl Orany gen p
Further reading
pl exonyms
Turkish
Proper noun
tr male