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Alan en · PROPN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈæl.ən/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Old Breton Alan, name of early Breton saints, of disputed origin and meaning; brought to England by Normans. It may have been the name of a Celtic deity, the brother of Bran, Welsh Alawn, Alun. As an early Irish name, perhaps connected with ail (“noble”). Compare French Alain.

Meanings

  1. A male given name from the Celtic languages.
    • I could pose as an artist all right; so I took the studio. Also the name of Alan Beverley. My own is Bill Bates. I had often wondered what it would feel like to be called by some name like Alan Beverley or Cyril Trevelyan. 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs, and Other Stories, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2008, →ISBN, page 24:
    • He grabbed at Alan by his Adam's apple, And Alan grabbed him back in furious grapple And clenched his fist and bashed him on the nose. 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reeve's Tale”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977:
  2. A surname.

Forms

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Alen alternative lexicographic
Alans Number=Plur lexicographic
Allan alternative lexicographic
Allen alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

Alanna · Alana · Al

Translations (33)

es Alano (male given name) · nl Alaan (male given name) · br Alan (male given name) · nl Alan (male given name) · mi Ārana (male given name) · cy Alawn (male given name) · mi Ārena (male given name) · el Αλανός (male given name) · es Alán (male given name) · el Αλάν (male given name) · fi Allan (male given name) · cy Alun (male given name) · ca Alà (male given name) · fa آلن (male given name) · nl Alain (male given name) · ga Ailín (male given name) · cs Alan (male given name) · fr Alain (male given name) · la Alanus (male given name) · da Allan (male given name) · nl Alain (male given name) · eu Alain (male given name) · gd Ailean (male given name) · kk Алан (male given name) · gv Aleyn (male given name) · pt Alan (male given name) · ru А́лан (male given name) · nl Alanus (male given name) · cmn 艾倫 /艾伦 (male given name) · sv Allan (male given name) · it Alano (male given name) · fo Allan (male given name) · sk Alan (male given name)

Alan en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈæl.ən/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin Alānī, from Ancient Greek Ἀλανοί (Alanoí), from Proto-Sarmatian *Āllān.

Meanings

  1. (historical) A member of a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.

Forms

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Alani Number=Plur lexicographic
Alans Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

Alanic · Alania · Roxolani

Translations (17)

la Alānī (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · tr Alan (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · os ала́н (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · fa آلان (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · ru ала́н (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · pt alano (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · es alano (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · gl alán (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · ca alà (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · cs Alan (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · xcl ալանք (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · ka ალანები (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · hy ալան (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · de Alanen (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · gl alana (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · ca alana (member of a Sarmatian tribe) · grc Ἀλανοί (member of a Sarmatian tribe)

Alan en · PROPN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /ˈæl.ən/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.

Forms

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Alans Number=Plur lexicographic