Bann

From Irish an Bhanna (“the river goddess”), from ban (“woman”) + dia (“goddess, deity”).

Bann

1. A river in County Down, County Armagh, County Antrim and County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, which flows through Lough Neagh.
   • c. 1900, “Star of the County Down (traditional folk song)”:

     He smiled at me and he says, says he,\"That's the gem of the Ireland's crown./Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann/She's the star of the County Down".

2. A river in southeastern Ireland.

• Banbridge

• "Place Names NI - Home". Placenamesni.org.

Borrowed from German Bann.

Bann (plural Banns)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bann is the 41886^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 519 individuals. Bann is most common among White (80.73%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bann”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 95.

From Middle High German and Old High German ban, from the root of bannen (“to outlaw, banish”).

• IPA^(key): /ban/
• Rhymes: -an

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Bann m (strong, genitive Bannes or Banns, plural Banne)

1. jurisdiction
2. ban, proscription
3. excommunication
4. spell, enchantment, influence, magic, magical effect
5. (historical) a regiment of Hitler Youth or the SS.

• Bannstrahl m

• Bannbrief, Bannbulle, bannen, Bannkreis, etc.

• “Bann” in Duden online
• “Bann”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Bann” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

• IPA^(key): /ban/, [bɑn]

  Rhymes: -ɑn

Bann m (plural Bänn)

1. communal district