# باران
## Central Kurdish
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *waHr- (“water; rain”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁r- (“water”). Cognate with Persian باران (bârân); see there for more.

### Noun

| Northern Kurdish | baran |
باران (baran)
* rain

### References

* Cabolov, R. L. (2001) “bārān”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 152
* Kedajtene, Je. I., Mukriani, Kurdistan, Mitroxina, V. I. (1977) “дождь”, in Kedajtene Je. I., editor, Učebnyj russko-kurdskij slovarʹ [Russian–Kurdish Learning Dictionary], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 82
* Kurdojev, K. K., Jusupova, Z. A. (1983) “باران”, in Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ (sorani) [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary (Sorani)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 48b

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian باران (bârân, “rain”).

#### Noun

باران • (baran)
* rain, condensed water falling from a cloud
    Synonyms: مطر (matar), یاغمور (yağmur)

##### Derived terms

* باران دیده (baran-dide, “soaked with rain”)
* باران زده (baran-zede, “drenched with rain”)
* بارانی (barani, “rainy”)
* بارانیه (baraniye, “raincoat”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: baran (obsolete)

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baran2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 465
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باران”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 234
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pluvia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1310
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باران”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 643
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “baran”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باران”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 319

### Etymology 2

From Armenian պարան (paran, “rope, cord; row of vines in a vineyard”).

#### Noun

باران • (baran)
* (agriculture) row of vines in a vineyard

##### Descendants

* Turkish: baran

#### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պարան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 56b
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baran3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 465
* Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 610, page 125
* Eren, Hasan (1999) “baran”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 39b
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باران”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 319

## Pashto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian باران (bârân).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑˈrɑn/
* (Wazirwola) IPA: /bɑˈrom/

### Noun

باران • (bārā́n) m
* rain

#### Declension
### References

* Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009) “باران”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press, page 75a

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* بارون (bârun) (colloquial, Tehrani)
* گواران (gwârân) (archaic, Sistan)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wʾlʾn' /⁠wārān⁠/) (Manichaean Middle Persian [script needed] (wʾrʾn /⁠wārān⁠/)), compound of [script needed] (wʾl /⁠wār-⁠/) and [script needed] (-ʾn' /⁠-ān⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *waHr- (“water; rain”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁r- (“water”).
Indo-Iranian cognates include Northern Kurdish baran, Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬭𐬀 (vāra, “rain”), and Sanskrit वार् (vār, “water”). Other Indo-European cognates include Luwian 𒉿𒀀𒅈 (wār, “water”), Old Norse vari (“liquid, water”) and Latin ūrīnor (“to dive”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [bɑː.ɾɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bɑː.ɾɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bɑː.ɾɑːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [bɑː.ɾɑːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bɔː.ɾɔːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [bɒː.ɹɒːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [bɒː.ɹɒːn]
** (Tehrani) IPA: [bɒː.ɹuːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bɔ.ɾɔn]
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### Noun

باران • (bârân)
* rain
    باران کلاهش را تر کرده.bârân kolâh-aš râ tar karde.The rain has wet his hat.
** c. 1650, Mīrzā Abū Ṭālib Kalīm, دیوان [Dīvān]:منت باران به کشت آرزویش می‌دهد غمزه‌ات گر خسته‌ای را تیرباران کرده استminnat-i bârân ba kišt-i ârzû-yaš mê-nihad ğamza-at gar xasta-ê râ tîrbârân karda astYour teasing wink fulfills the duty of rain for the field of [my heart’s] desire Though it has rained [only] a shower of arrows into a wounded [heart].

#### Derived terms

* باران آمدن (bârân âmadan)
* باران دیده (bârân dide)
* بارانی (bârâni)
* باران‌زا (bârân-zâ)
* باران‌ستج (bârân-sanj)
* باران‌گیر (bârân-gir)
* بمباران (bombârân)
* شغال باران (šoğâl bârân)
* پرباران (por-bârân)
* کم‌باران (kam-bârân)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: baran
* → Gujarati: બારાન (bārān)
* → Ottoman Turkish: باران (baran)
** Turkish: baran (obsolete)
* → Pashto: باران (bârân)
* → Urdu: باراں (bārā̃)

### Verb

باران • (bârân)
* present participle of باریدن (bâridan, “to rain”)

### Proper noun

باران • (bârân)
* a female given name, Baran, from Middle Persian

### References

* Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 278a
* Horn, Paul (1893) “bārān”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 159, page 36
* Cabolov, R. L. (2001) “bārān”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 152
* Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 406-7
* Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 544-5