name
Meaning 1
A surname from Old French.
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Standard Lemma guide
rohan
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name
Meaning 2
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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name
Meaning 3
A male given name from Sanskrit, of mainly Indian usage.
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name
Meaning 4
A surname from Japanese.
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noun
Meaning 5
An East Indian timber tree.
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Usage: obsolete
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History
Etymology
Habitational surname from Rohan in Morbihan, Brittany. Also a variant of Rowan and Ruane.
Borrowed from the present participial of Sanskrit रुह् (ruh, “to ascend”).
A romanization of Japanese 露伴 or ろはん (Rohan).
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