Arnaut

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• Arnaout

From Turkish arnavut, from Ottoman Turkish آرناوود (arnavut, “an Albanian”). Entered Ottoman Turkish from the Byzantine Greek ethnonym Arvanitis (Αρβανίτης) after the syllable cluster van was rearranged through metathesis to nav giving the final Turkish forms as Arnavut and Arnaut. Meanwhile in Greek the name Arvanitis was derived from the original term Alvanitis (Άλβάνίτης) as a process of rhotacism Alv- into Arv-. In return Alvanitis stems from the name Alvanos (Άλβάνος) Albanian, from Ancient Greek Ἀλβανοί (Albanoí).^[1][2]

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹˌnaʊt/

Arnaut (plural Arnauts)

1. (historical) An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, especially an Albanian serving in the Turkish army.
   • 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, London: T Davison, , for John Murray, , →OCLC, page 18:

     I know him by his jet-black barb, / Though now array'd in Arnaut garb, [...]

2. (historical, military) A Greek, Albanian, Bulgarian or Serbian soldier, recruited to serve as body-guard to officials in the 18th-19th c. Wallachia and Moldavia. Greek militia units formed in Crimea, 1769.^[3]
   • 1844, Thomas Gordon, History of the Greek Revolution‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 1:

     Included under the generic name of Arnauts, it was recruited from Roumeliote Greeks, Albanians, Bulgarians, and Servians, who acted as body-guards to the princes, the great functionaries, and eve the simple Boyards [in Danubian Principalities, early 19th c.]

• Arunta, at a run

• Eñaut

From a Gascon variant of the name Old High German Arnwald.

• IPA^(key): /arnau̯t/
• Rhymes: -arnau̯t
• Hyphenation: Ar‧naut

Arnaut anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Arnold

• “Arnaut”, in Euskal Onomastikaren Datutegia [Basque Onomastic Database], Euskaltzaindia