# Arnaut
## English
### Alternative forms

* Arnaout

### Etymology

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 (Ἀλβάνίτης) as a process of rhotacism Alv- into Arv-. In return Alvanitis stems from the name Alvanos (Ἀλβάνος) Albanian, from Ancient Greek Ἀλβανοί (Albanoí).

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈɑɹˌnaʊt/

### Noun

Arnaut (plural Arnauts)
* (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[homas] Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 18:I know him by his jet-black barb, / Though now array'd in Arnaut garb, [...]
* (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.
** 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.]

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Ulrich Theißen (2007) Zeitschrift für Balkanologie (in German), page 90:Der ursprüngliche Name ἀλβανίτης (abgeleitet von ἀλβάνος) wurde im Neugriechischen zu ἀρβανίτης […]. In türkischer Vermittlung erfuhr die Silbe -van- eine Metathese zu -nav-, so dass die türkische Form des Namens für die Albaner arnavut bzw. arnaut lautet. In dieser Form gelangte das Wort ins Bulgarische (BER I/1971: 15).The original name ἀλβανίτης (derived from ἀλβάνος) became ἀρβανίτης in Modern Greek […]. In being mediated to Turkish, the syllable -van- underwent metathesis to -nav-, so that the Turkish form of the name for the Albanians is Arnavut or Arnaut. In this form, the word passed into Bulgarian (BER I/1971: 15).
* ↑ Noel Malcolm (1998) Kosovo: A Short History, London: Macmillan, page 29:The name used in all these references is, allowing for linguistic variations, the same: 'Albanenses' or 'Arbanenses' in Latin, 'Albanoi' or 'Arbanitai' in Byzantine Greek. (The last of these, with an internal switching of consonants, gave rise to the Turkish form 'Arnavud', from which 'Arnaut' was later derived.)
* ↑ Nouveau Dictionnaire Militaire. Paris, 1892, p. 56. ARNAUTES ou ARNOUTS.: "Milice grecque, créée en 1769, pour garder les côtes de la Crimée."

### Anagrams

* Arunta, at a run

## Basque
### Alternative forms

* Eñaut

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /arnau̯t/ [ar.nau̯t̪]
* Rhymes: -arnau̯t, -au̯t
* Hyphenation: Ar‧naut

### Proper noun

Arnaut anim
* a male given name, equivalent to English Arnold

#### Declension
### References

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