English

Alternative forms

• Allan
• Allen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.lən/
• Rhymes: -ælən

Proper noun

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 0554330679, 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.

Derived terms

• Al

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Related terms

• Alania

Translations

Anagrams

• Anal, anal, Lana

Czech

Proper noun

Alan m

1. A male given name, cognate to Alan.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English Alan.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Alan m

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Alan

Related terms

• Alano
• alão

Slovak

Proper noun

Alan m

1. A male given name.

Turkish

Proper noun

Alan

1. A male given name

English

Noun

alan ‎(plural alans)

1. A wolfhound.

Translations

Anagrams

• Anal, anal, Lana

Finnish

Noun

alan

1. Genitive singular form of ala.

Verb

alan

1. First-person singular indicative present form of alkaa.

Anagrams

• lana

Gothic

Romanization

alan

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽

Hiligaynon

Adjective

álan

1. rancid

Old English

Verb

alan

1. to nourish
2. to grow, produce
3. to appear

Conjugation

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic alaŋ, from Proto-Turkic *ala-n, *ala-ŋ ‎(“level ground, plain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ.ɫɑn/

Adjective

alan ‎(comparative daha alan, superlative en alan)

1. recipient, susceptive

   Atı alan Üsküdar'ı geçti. (proverb)

   The one who is the recipient of the horse has already passed Üsküdar. (It is too late to do anything; you have missed the train.)

Noun

alan ‎(definite accusative alanı, plural alanlar)

1. area, land, square as for place.

   Tarlanın alanı 150.000 hektarla en büyüktü.

   The area of the field was with 150.000 hectares the largest.

2. The person who takes something.

   Atı alan Üsküdar'ı geçti. (proverb)

   [The person] who took has passed Üsküdar. (Too late to do anything about it, as the chance has been missed.)

Declension

Anagrams

• nala