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Donovan
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English
<dab!>
Alternative forms
surname en Donavan
Etymology
From en ga Ó Donndubháin descendant of (a person named) brown & black, from ga donn brown and ga dubh black.
Pronunciation
en /ˈdɒnəvɪn/ /ˈdʌnəvɪn/
Proper noun
en Irish.
en Judd Legum Is it "OK to be white"? Popular Information https://popular.info/p/is-it-ok-to-be-white 2023-02-28 Brian Friedberg and Joan Donovan, researchers at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, documented how the campaign to inject IOTBW into the national consciousness through fliers was highly organized. https://web.archive.org/web/20260601182815/https://popular.info/p/is-it-ok-to-be-white 1 June 2026
en male surnames.
The Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan.
en unincorporated community co/Johnson County s/Georgia c/USA.
en village twp:Suf/Beaver co/Iroquois County s/Illinois c/USA.
Derived terms
en Donovan body donovanosis
Derived terms
mul donovani
Noun
en slang archaic A potato.
en murphy
References
en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42108/42108-h/42108-h.htm#:~:text=donovans
References
Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001
en eponyms
en Potatoes