Arran

See also: arran and ar ran

English

Etymology 1

Derived from Scottish Gaelic Arainn, but the name is ultimately probably of non-Indo-European (substrate) or Pictish origin, along with other uncertain names in Scotland such as Skye, Lewis, and Islay. Possibly from a Brythonic/Pictish term ancestral or cognate to Middle Welsh aran (“"high place"”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɹən/
• Rhymes: -æɹən
• Homophones: Aran, Aaron (in some pronunciations)

Proper noun

Arran

1. Short for Isle of Arran, Scotland.
2. A male given name transferred from the place name, of modern Scottish usage.
3. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
4. Synonym of Arranmore (island in County Donegal, Ireland)

Derived terms

• Arran brown
• Arran-Elderslie

 

Translations

Isle of Arran

• Portuguese: Arran f
• Russian: А́рран m (Árran)
• Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Arainn m

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian *ʾldʾn (/⁠arrān⁠/). Compare Parthian 𐭀𐭓𐭃𐭀𐭍 (ʾrdʾn /⁠ardān⁠/). Ultimately from an unknown source, underlying also Old Armenian Աղուանք (Ałuankʿ) and Ancient Greek Ἀλβανία (Albanía).

Alternative forms

• Aran

Proper noun

Arran

1. (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 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 — see also Caucasian Albania

• Arabic: أَرَّان f (ʔarrān), الرَّان f (ar-rān)
• Armenian: Առան (Aṙan)
• Georgian: არანი (arani), რანი (rani)
• Ottoman Turkish: آران (Aran)
• Persian: اران (fa) (arân), ران (fa) (rân)

Further reading

• Arran (Caucasus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bosworth, C. E. (1986) “Arrān”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York
• Frye, R. N. (1960) “Arrān”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, pages 660–661

Anagrams

• narra

Portuguese

Proper noun

Arran f

1. Arran (an island in Scotland)