روان

See also: زوان

Arabic

Etymology

From French Rouen, q.v.

Proper noun

روان • (Ruān) ?

  1. Rouen (a city in France)

Persian

Etymology 1

رو (rav) +‎ ـان (-ân); the first part is the present stem of رفتن (raftan).

Adjective

روان • (ravân) (comparative روان‌تَر (ravân-tar), superlative روان‌تَرین (ravân-tarin))

  1. fluid
  2. flowing
  3. fluent
Descendants
  • → Urdu: روان (ravān)

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (lwbʾn /⁠ruwān⁠/), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫡𐫇𐫀𐫗 (rwʾn /⁠ruwān⁠/, “soul”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫀𐫡𐫇𐫀𐫗 (ʾrwʾn /⁠arwān⁠/, “soul”), Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬬𐬀𐬥- (urvan-, “soul; immortal part of a human being or an animal”), and perhaps Sanskrit रूप (rūpa, “shape, form”). Ultimately perhaps from Proto-Iranian *urw-āna- (literally “what has created a wide room for itself”); compare Sanskrit उरु (uru, “space, wide scope, liberty”).[1] Old Armenian ուրու (uru, “ghost”) is probably an Iranian loanword.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [rä.wɑːn~ɾʊ.wɑːn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [rä.wɑːn~ɾʊ.wɑːn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [rä.wɔːn~ɾu.wɔːn]

Readings
Classical reading? rawān~ruwān
Dari reading? rawān~ruwān
Iranian reading? ravân~rovân
Tajik reading? ravon~ruvon

Noun

روان • (ravân) (plural روان‌ها (ravân-hâ))

  1. psyche
  2. soul
  3. spirit
Synonyms
Derived terms

Proper noun

روان • (ravân)

  1. a female given name, Ravan, from Middle Persian

References
  1. Skalmowski, Wojciech (1984) “Wheel within Wheel: Remarks on Bundahišn”, in Wojciech Skalmowski and Alois van Tongerloo, editors, Middle Iranian Studies: Proceedings of the International Symposium organized by the Katolieke Universiteit Leuven from the the 17th to the 20th of May 1982 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 16), Leuven: Peeters, page 306

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian روان (ravān, “fluid, flowing”), a compound of رو (rav) +‎ ـان (-ân); the former is the present stem of رفتن (raftan).

Pronunciation

Adjective

رَوان • (ravān or rawān) (Hindi spelling रवान)

  1. fluid
  2. flowing
  3. fluent

Derived terms
  • رَوانی (ravānī, “fluency, sharpness, speed, flow”)
  • رَوان٘گی (ravāngī, “departure, going, leaving, death”)
  • رَوانِیٔ طَبَع (ravān-e-'taba, “continuous flow of ideas”)
  • رَوانیِٔ خُون (ravān-e-xūn, “blood circulation”)
  • رَہ رَوانِ مُحَبَّت (rah-ravān-e-muhabbat, “travellers of the path of love”)

Ushojo

Verb

روان (ravān)

  1. to walk
  2. to move
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