ruán

• arroán, roán

Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as raudane, raudanus, probably of Germanic origin (compare Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (raudan), accusative of 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (rauþs, “red”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *raudaz. Cognate with Spanish roano.

• IPA^(key):

ruán (feminine ruana, masculine plural ruáns, feminine plural ruanas)

1. auburn
2. roan
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 221:

     El rrey Cástor, que sij́a sobre hũ bon caualo rroán

     king Castor, who was atop a good roan horse

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “roan”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “roan”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “ruán” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ruán” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ruán” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• (Connacht) IPA^(key):

rua +‎ -án

ruán m (genitive singular ruáin, nominative plural ruáin)

1. diminutive of rua
2. common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)
3. buckwheat

• ruadhán (obsolete)

• ruán aille (“sparrow-hawk”)
• ruán beag (“small tortoise-shell butterfly”)
• ruán alla (“spider”)

ruán m (genitive singular ruáin, nominative plural ruáin)

1. Alternative form of rabhán

ruán (ruan², Zhuyin ㄖㄨㄢˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 堧
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 壖
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 撋／𰓷