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Arran
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arran ar ran
English
Etymology 1
en cel
en gd Arainn, but the name is ultimately probably of non-Indo-European (en qfa-sub -) or en xpi - origin, along with other uncertain names in Scotland such as en Skye, en Lewis, and en Islay.The year’s work in modern language studies. 54.1992(1993), Volumes 54-1992, p. 617Interdigitations: essays for Irmengard Rauch, p. 46
Possibly from a en cel-bry -/en xpi - term ancestral or cognate to wlm aran "high place".
Pronunciation
en /ˈæɹən/
en æɹən 2
en Aran Aaron en in some pronunciations
Proper noun
en Isle of Arran, Scotland.
en male place names modern Scottish.
en village p/Saskatchewan c/Canada.
en Arranmore island in County Donegal, Ireland
en male Tamil.
Derived terms
en Arran brown Arran-Elderslie
Translations
Isle of Arran
Portuguese: pt Arran f
Russian: ru А́рран m
Scottish Gaelic: gd Eilean Arainn m
References
Etymology 2
en pal *ʾldʾn arrān. Cognate with xpr 𐭀𐭓𐭃𐭀𐭍 ardān. Ultimately from an unknown source, underlying also xcl Աղուանք and grc Ἀλβανία.
Alternative forms
en Aran
Proper noun
en historical In post-Islamic times, a region of eastern Transcaucasia, lying between the Rivers Kura and Araxes, in what is now the Republic of Azerbaijan and the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh, corresponding to the territory of Caucasian Albania on the right bank of the River Kura which was disattached from Greater Armenia in 387 AD. In pre-Islamic times, the term was used for the whole of Caucasian Albania.
Translations
region of eastern Transcaucasia Caucasian Albania
Arabic: ar أَرَّان f, ar الرَّان f
Armenian: hy Առան
Georgian: ka არანი, ka რანი
Persian: fa اران arân, fa ران rân
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: ota آران Aran
Further reading
Arran (Caucasus)
Arrān Bosworth, C. E. 1986 https://iranicaonline.org/articles/arran-a-region
Frye R. N. Richard N. Frye 1 Arrān 660–661
Anagrams
en aanrr narra
en Ancient Near East
Portuguese
Proper noun
f
pt island cc/Scotland Arran