Brian

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• Canada, UK, US: /ˈbɹaɪ.ən/
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• CMU ARPABET: B R AY1 AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Irish Brian. Doublet of Brendan.

From dialectal English, probably variant of brine (“to burn”), from brine (“a burning”), from Middle English brüne (“a burn, a burning”), from Old English bryne (“a burning, conflagration, fire, flame, heat, inflammation, burn, scald, torch, fervor, passion”), from Proto-Germanic *bruniz (“fire, burning”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhrenu- (“burn, fire”). Cognate with Scots brin (“a flash”), Scots brin, bryne (“to be on fire, be inflamed, burn”), Old Norse bruni (“fire, burning”). More at burn.

16 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بْرَايَن (brāyan) — male given name
• Azerbaijani: Brayan — male given name
• Chinese Mandarin: 布賴恩 /布赖恩 (Bùlài'ēn) — male given name
• Chinese Mandarin: 布萊恩 /布莱恩 (Bùlái'ēn) — male given name
• Esperanto: Brajan — male given name
• Greek: Μπράιαν (Bráian) — male given name
• Hawaiian: Palaina — male given name
• Icelandic: Brjánn — male given name
• Irish: Brian — male given name
• Japanese: ブライアン (Buraian) — male given name
• Korean: 브라이언 (Beuraieon) — male given name
• Persian: برایان (berâyân) — male given name
• Russian: Бра́йан (Brájan) — male given name
• Serbo-Croatian: Брајан — male given name
• Ukrainian: Бра́ян (Brájan) — male given name
• Vietnamese: Brai-ơn — male given name