Oran

Ultimately Borrowed from Arabic وَهْرَان (wahrān), from a Berber term meaning "lion".

Oran

1. A city, port, and province of Algeria.
   • 2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 December 2024:

     We see documentary footage (the trudging homeless) and an animated map—an inky line movies from Paris to Marseilles, from there to Oran, and finally to Casablanca, where the lucky ones escape via Lisbon and the rest “wait…and wait…and wait.”

Anglicized from Old Irish saints' name Odrán, diminutive of odur (“dun, sallow”) (compare Irish Odhrán).

Oran

1. A male given name from Irish.

• Oran Park

• Arno, NRAO, roan, Anor, Naro, Rona, Nora, 'rona, Aron, rona, RONA

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ran/

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• Rhymes: -ɔran
• Syllabification: O‧ran

Borrowed from Arabic وهران.

Oran m inan (related adjective orański)

1. Oran (a city in Algeria)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Oran nvir pl

1. genitive plural of Orany

• “Oran”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Oran in PWN's encyclopedia

Oran

1. a male given name