Arran

Meaning

Proper Noun

• Scotland.
• A male given name from place names.
• village Saskatchewan (province) Canada (country).
• In post-Islamic times, a region of eastern Transcaucasia, laying between the Rivers Kura and Araxes, in what is now the Republic of Azerbaijan and the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh, corresponding to the territory of Caucasian Albania on the right bank of River Kura which was disattached from Greater Armenia in 387 AD. In pre-Islamic times, the term was used for the whole of Caucasian Albania.

Origin

• From a or Celtic language, but the name is ultimately probably of non-Indo-European () or Pictish origin, along with other uncertain names in Scotland such as Skye, Lewis, and Islay.
• Possibly from a /Pictish term ancestral or cognate to Middle Welsh aran (""high place"").
• From Middle Persian. Compare Parthian 𐭀𐭓𐭃𐭀𐭍. Ultimately from an unknown source, underlying also Old Armenian Աղուանք and Ancient Greek Ἀλβανία.