Given name · Pashto · Persian
باران
“water; rain”
باران (bârân) is a feminine given name from Middle Persian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Persian.
Pashto and PersianWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: bârân.
Meaning & origin
What it means
باران goes back to Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáHr̥, meaning “water; rain.”
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Where it comes from
باران comes from Middle Persian, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
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How it developed
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáHr̥ (“water; rain”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁r- (“water”).
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باران’s family of names
In Persian usage, باران shares a linguistic root with the Northern Kurdish form Baran. In Persian usage, باران can be written in the Roman alphabet as bârân. In Persian usage, باران has a related form in بارون.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named باران
- Baran bo OdarGerman film director and screenwriterborn 1978
- Baran KosariIranian actressborn 1985
- Baran Ali GezekTurkish association football player (born 2005)
- VC BarreSwedish rapperborn 2003
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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