Aaron

Etymology
From, from , from , of unknown meaning, possibly meaning “bearer of martyrs”, or perhaps also, or instead, related to the Ancient Egyptian , though it has been suggested to also mean “elevated”, “exalted” or “high mountain”. .

Pronunciation


The Hebrew etymon of Aaron,, was pronounced ; it was transliterated into Greek as , and into Latin as. In Ecclesiastical Latin, the name was and is pronounced with two separate a sounds.

The pronunciation of the aa as a single sound,, originated when the Bible was anglicised, hence modern guides to the pronunciation of Biblical names, including those of the Church of England, the BBC, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Oxford English Dictionary, and Harper Collins specify the modern English pronunciation as , where the first syllable sounds like the word.

The variant form (see ) derives from the same Hebrew root, but via Scandinavian and/or Celtic languages; it is pronounced  (like the unrelated but homophonous Celtic names  and ), for which reason  is sometimes pronounced that way, too.

Proper noun

 * 1) The elder brother of Moses in the Book of the Exodus, and in the Quran.

Usage notes

 * The given name was exclusively Jewish in the Middle Ages, taken up by Gentiles in the 17th century, and popular among both at the end of the 20th century.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: Ահարոն
 * Bengali:
 * Burmese: အာရုန်
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲁⲁⲣⲱⲛ
 * Danish: Aron
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French: Aaron
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌷𐌰𐍂𐍉𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Ἀαρών
 * Hausa: Haruna
 * Hebrew: אַהֲרֹן
 * Irish: Árón
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: Һарұн
 * Korean: ^아론
 * Malay: Harun
 * Maltese: Aron
 * Maore Comorian: Haruna
 * Maori: Arona
 * Ngazidja Comorian: Haruna
 * Norwegian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: هَارُون
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: แอรอน
 * Tibetan: ཨ་རོན
 * Turkish:, Arun, Arun


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: Ահարոն
 * Bengali:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: Aron
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: Áron
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: Haruna
 * Hawaiian: ʻĀʻālona
 * Hebrew: אַהֲרֹן
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: Harun
 * Irish: Árón, Aaron
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: Арон
 * Latin: Aaron
 * Lithuanian: Aronas
 * Malay: Harun
 * Maltese: Aronn
 * Maori: Ārona
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, Arun
 * Yiddish: אהרן

Noun

 * 1)  The leader of a group of thieves.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:criminal leader

Proper noun

 * 1)  biblical figure

Etymology
Ultimately from, from.

Proper noun

 * 1) Aaron biblical figure

Proper noun

 * 1)  biblical figure

Proper noun

 * 1)  Aaron

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Aaron biblical figure

Etymology
From, from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Aaron
 * 2) * c. 1050, , Deuteronomy 9:20
 * "ang"

- He wæs yrre wiþ Aaron and wolde hine fordon and ic gebæd for hyne