Alan

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, Celtic Alun, ‘harmony’. As an early Irish name, perhaps connected with ail (“noble”). Compare French Alain.

• Allan, Allen

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.lən/
• Rhymes: -ælən

Alan (plural Alans)

1. A male given name.
   • 1951 translation by Nevill Coghill of: 13?? Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales: The Reeve's Tale:

     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.

   • 1910 P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs, and Other Stories, BiblioBazaar, LLC 2008, →ISBN, page 24:

     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.

From Latin Alānī, from Ancient Greek Ἀλανοί (Alanoí).

Alan (plural Alans or Alani)

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.

• Anal, Lana, Nala, anal, lana, nala

• IPA^(key): [ˈalan]

Alan m

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Alan.

Borrowed from English Alan.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lɐ̃/, /a.ˈlɐ̃/

Alan m

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Alan.

• Alano
• alão

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɫan/

Alan m (genitive Alana, nominative plural Alanovia) declension pattern chlap

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Alan.

• Alan in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Alan

1. A male given name