# Alan
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈæl.ən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ælən

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Alternative forms

* Allan, Allen, Alen

#### Proper noun

Alan (plural Alans)
* A male given name from the Celtic languages.
** 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reeve's Tale”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977: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, published 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.
* A surname.

##### Derived terms

* Al
* Alana, Alanna

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Latin Alānī, from Ancient Greek Ἀλανοί (Alanoí), from Proto-Sarmatian *Allān.

#### Noun

Alan (plural Alans or Alani)
* (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
* Alanic
* Roxolani

##### Translations
### Etymology 3
#### Proper noun

Alan (plural Alans)
* A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.

### Anagrams

* Anal, Lana, Nala, anal, anal., lana, nala

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈalan]

### Proper noun

Alan m anim
* a male given name, equivalent to English Alan

#### Declension
## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Alan.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.lɐ̃/, /aˈlã/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈa.lɐn/

### Proper noun

Alan m
* a male given name from English, equivalent to English Alan

#### Related terms

* Alano
* alão

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɫan/

### Proper noun

Alan m pers (genitive singular Alana, nominative plural Alanovia, declension pattern of chlap)
* a male given name, equivalent to English Alan

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “Alan”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Turkish
### Proper noun

Alan
* a male given name

## Welsh
### Alternative forms

* Alun
* Alawn

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈalan/

### Proper noun

Alan m
* a male given name, feminine equivalent Alana

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

Heini Gruffudd (2010) Enwau Cymraeg i Blant / Welsh Names for Children‎, Y Lolfa, →ISBN, page 12