# روان
## Arabic
### Etymology

From French Rouen, q.v.

### Proper noun

روان • (transliteration needed) ?
* Rouen (a city in France)

## Persian
### Etymology 1

From رو (rav) +‎ ـان (-ân); the first part is the present stem of رفتن (raftan).

#### Adjective

روان • (ravân) (comparative روان‌تَر (ravân-tar), superlative روان‌تَرین (ravân-tarin))
* fluid
* flowing
* fluent

##### Descendants

* → Urdu: روان (ravān)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (lwbʾn /⁠ruwān⁠/), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫡𐫇𐫀𐫗 (rwʾn /⁠ruwān⁠/, “soul”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫀𐫡𐫇𐫀𐫗 (ʾrwʾn /⁠arwān⁠/, “soul”), Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬬𐬀𐬥- (urvan-, “soul; immortal part of a human being or an animal”), Pashto: اروا, and perhaps Sanskrit रूप (rūpa, “shape, form”). Ultimately perhaps from Proto-Iranian *urw-āna- (literally “what has created a wide room for itself”); compare Sanskrit उरु (uru, “space, wide scope, liberty”). Old Armenian ուրու (uru, “ghost”) is probably an Iranian loanword.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ɾa.wɑːn~ɾu.wɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rä.wɑːn~ɾʊ.wɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rä.wɑːn~ɾʊ.wɑːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [rä.wɑːn~ɾʊ.wɑːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [rä.wɔːn~ɾu.wɔːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ɹæ.vɒːn~ɹo.vɒːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ɾä.vɔn~ɾu.vɔn]

#### Noun

روان • (ravân) (plural روان‌ها (ravân-hâ))
* psyche
* soul
* spirit

##### Synonyms

* روح (ruh)

##### Derived terms

* روانی (ravâni)
* انوشیروان (anuširavân)
* روان‌پریش (ravân-pariš)
* روان‌پریشی (ravân-pariši)
* روان‌کاو (ravân-kâve)
* روان‌کاوی (ravân-kâvi)
* روان‌پزشک (ravân-pezešk)
* روان‌پزشکی (ravân-pezeški)
* روان‌شناس (ravân-šenâs)
* روان‌شناسی (ravân-šenâsi)

#### Proper noun

روان • (ravân)
* a female given name, Ravan, from Middle Persian

#### References

* ↑ Skalmowski, Wojciech (1984) “Wheel within Wheel: Remarks on Bundahišn”, in Wojciech Skalmowski and Alois van Tongerloo, editors, Middle Iranian Studies: Proceedings of the International Symposium organized by the Katolieke Universiteit Leuven from the the 17th to the 20th of May 1982 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 16), Leuven: Peeters, page 306

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ɾa.wɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rä.wɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rä.wɑːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [rä.wɑːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [rä.wɔːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ɹæ.vɒːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ɾä.vɔn]

#### Proper noun

روان • (ravân)
* Alternative form of ایروان (iravân, “Yerevan”)

#### References

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “روان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

## Urdu
### Etymology

From Classical Persian روان (ravān, “fluid, flowing”), a compound of رو (rav) +‎ ـان (-ân); the former is the present stem of رفتن (raftan).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɾə.ʋɑːn.~ɾə.wɑːn/

### Adjective

رَوان • (ravān or rawān) (Hindi spelling रवान)
* fluid
* flowing
* fluent

#### Derived terms

* رَوانی (ravānī, “fluency, sharpness, speed, flow”)
* رَوان٘گی (ravāngī, “departure, going, leaving, death”)
* رَوانِیٔ طَبَع (ravān-e-'taba, “continuous flow of ideas”)
* رَوانیِٔ خُون (ravān-e-xūn, “blood circulation”)
* رَہ رَوانِ مُحَبَّت (rah-ravān-e-muhabbat, “travellers of the path of love”)

## Ushojo
### Verb

روان (ravān)
* to walk
* to move