روان

Arabic

Etymology

From French Rouen, q.v.

Proper noun

روان • (transliteration needed) ?

Rouen (a city in France)

Persian

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Etymology 1

From (rav) +‎ (-ân); the first part is the present stem of (raftan). Or from Middle Persian Ruwān (lwbʼn') which meant "soul (which goes to paradise or hell)"

Adjective

روان • (ravân) (comparative روان‌تَر (ravân-tar), superlative روان‌تَرین (ravân-tarin))

Descendants

→ Urdu: روان (ravān)

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (lwbʾn /⁠ruwān⁠/), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫡𐫇𐫀𐫗 (rwʾn /⁠ruwān⁠/, “soul”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫀𐫡𐫇𐫀𐫗 (ʾrwʾn /⁠arwān⁠/, “soul”), Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬬𐬀𐬥- (urvan-, “soul; immortal part of a human being or an animal”), Pashto: اروا, and perhaps Sanskrit रूप (rūpa, “shape, form”). Ultimately perhaps from Proto-Iranian *urw-āna- (literally “what has created a wide room for itself”); compare Sanskrit उरु (uru, “space, wide scope, liberty”).^[1] Old Armenian ուրու (uru, “ghost”) is probably an Iranian loanword.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾa.wɑːn~ɾu.wɑːn]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rä.wɑːn~ɾʊ.wɑːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rä.wɑːn~ɾʊ.wɑːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rä.wɔːn~ɾu.wɔːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹæ.vɒːn~ɹo.vɒːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾä.vɔn~ɾu.vɔn]

Readings
Classical reading^?	rawān~ruwān
Dari reading^?	rawān~ruwān
Iranian reading^?	ravân~rovân
Tajik reading^?	ravon~ruvon

Noun

روان • (ravân) (plural روان‌ها (ravân-hâ))

Synonyms

روح (ruh)

Derived terms

روانی (ravâni)
روان‌پریش (ravân-pariš)
روان‌پریشی (ravân-pariši)
روان‌کاو (ravân-kâve)
روان‌کاوی (ravân-kâvi)
روان‌پزشک (ravân-pezešk)
روان‌پزشکی (ravân-pezeški)
روان‌شناس (ravân-šenâs)
روان‌شناسی (ravân-šenâsi)

Proper noun

روان • (ravân)

a female given name, Ravan, from Middle Persian

References

^ Skalmowski, Wojciech (1984) “Wheel within Wheel: Remarks on Bundahišn”, in Wojciech Skalmowski and Alois van Tongerloo, editors, Middle Iranian Studies: Proceedings of the International Symposium organized by the Katolieke Universiteit Leuven from the the 17th to the 20th of May 1982 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 16), Leuven: Peeters, page 306

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian (ravān, “fluid, flowing”), a compound of (rav) +‎ (-ân); the former is the present stem of رفتن (raftan).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾə.ʋɑːn.~ɾə.wɑːn/

Adjective

رَوان • (ravān or rawān) (Hindi spelling रवान)

Derived terms

رَوانی (ravānī, “fluency, sharpness, speed, flow”)
رَوان٘گی (ravāngī, “departure, going, leaving, death”)
رَوانِیٔ طَبَع (ravān-e-'taba, “continuous flow of ideas”)
رَوانیِٔ خُون (ravān-e-xūn, “blood circulation”)
رَہ رَوانِ مُحَبَّت (rah-ravān-e-muhabbat, “travellers of the path of love”)

Ushojo

Verb

روان (ravān)

to walk
to move

[1] Skalmowski, Wojciech (1984) “Wheel within Wheel: Remarks on Bundahišn”, in Wojciech Skalmowski and Alois van Tongerloo, editors, Middle Iranian Studies: Proceedings of the International Symposium organized by the Katolieke Universiteit Leuven from the the 17th to the 20th of May 1982 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 16), Leuven: Peeters, page 306

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