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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.[1][2]
Possibly from a Brythonic/Pictish term ancestral or cognate to Middle Welsh aran (“"high place"”).
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Arran
- Short for Isle of Arran, Scotland.
- A male given name transferred from the place name, of modern Scottish usage.
- A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- Synonym of Arranmore (island in County Donegal, Ireland)
- A male given name from Tamil
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- ^ The year’s work in modern language studies. 54.1992(1993), Volumes 54-1992, p. 617
- ^ Interdigitations: essays for Irmengard Rauch, p. 46
Etymology 2
Derived from Middle Persian *ʾldʾn (/arrān/). Cognate with Parthian 𐭀𐭓𐭃𐭀𐭍 (ʾrdʾn /ardān/). Ultimately from an unknown source, underlying also Old Armenian Աղուանք (Ałuankʻ) and Ancient Greek Ἀλβανία (Albanía).
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Arran
- (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.
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Proper noun
Arran f
- Arran (an island in Scotland)